New Seminar on Democracy | Race in Europe | New Staff Member
CES News & Events
November 8, 2020
Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe
Mary Lewis Chairs a Discussion on the Reassessment of Public Art in Europe
CES Resident Faculty Mary D. Lewis was joined by AnaLucia Araujo, professor of history at Howard University, and Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and francophone studies at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss both the dark history and the way forward during the event “Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe.”
“It’s all about not what’s happening in the past but what’s happening in the present, a battle to see who is going to occupy this public space.”
– Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History at Howard University
Weidmann on the EU's Economic Response and the Road Ahead
The last time President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, spoke at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), the economic landscape was fundamentally different. Returning almost seven years later, he addressed the consequences of a global pandemic, a joint shock to demand and supply, and the short-term as well as possibly longer-term ramifications.
“Looking ahead, international cooperation may be more important than ever – to help the world’s poorest to recover from the crisis, to reform and preserve a rules-based multilateral trading system and to combat climate change. Nobody can go it alone.”
– Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
This seminar will explore the past, present, and future of democracy. It will explore lessons learned from historical and contemporary cases of democratic breakthrough ranging from Weimar Germany’s spectacular collapse in the 1930s to post-communist Hungary and Poland. The series is a collaborative effort with the following institutions: Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) – Research Unit on Transformations of Democracy; Central European University – Democracy Institute; Collegium Civitas – Centre for Studies of Democracy, Civil Society and Political Elites; and Johns Hopkins University – SNF Agora Institute.
Marco Buti – Head of Cabinet, European Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Taxation
Vivien A. Schmidt– Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Daniela Schwarzer – Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Andrei S. Markovits, a long-time friend of CES and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, was honored with a Festschrift in Germany. This collection of writings was published on the occasion of his 70th birthday and recognizes his decades-long scholarship on Germany, sports and human-animal relations as well as his transatlantic comparison that highlights Markovtis’s special approach to the social sciences. The volume includes contributions by Markovits's colleagues and some texts that were not previously published. Congratulations Andy! Read More
Die Welt - October 21, 2020
Ich halte Weimarer Verhältnisse in den USA für möglich (Karl Kaiser)
