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May 17, 2020
WEBINAR
Senior Thesis Conference 2020
May 20, 2020
2:00-3:00pm (EDT)
Join CES in celebrating the accomplishments of the Harvard College "Class of 2020" by joining seniors as they present their completed senior theses on Europe! The students, who were awarded CES grants to conduct their thesis research in Europe last summer, will present their interdisciplinary projects which are the culmination of their academic tenure at Harvard.
Speakers:
Lily Jacobs  (Social Studies, 2020)
Finding Freedom in "Freedom:" Deflating and Expanding Frankfurt School Autonomy

Vanessa Ruales Navas (Social Studies, 2020)
Front-of-Package Nutritional Labelling in the UK and Ecuador: Comparative Case Studies of the Policy Process

Rebecca Thau  (History & Literature and French, 2020)
French Theory? The Intellectual Reverberations of Hélène Cixous' Juiféminité

May Wang  (Comparative Literature, 2020)
Observing Opposites: Optics, Character, and Narrative in  Return of the Native  and  Bouvard et Pécuchet

Selena Zhao (Government, 2020)
Understanding The Elite-Mass Divergence in Sectarianism: A Case Study of Northern Ireland

Chairs:
Hannah Callaway, Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University; CES Thesis Workshop Organizer

Michael Tworek, Associate, History Department, Harvard University; CES Senior Thesis Workshop Organizer
Rebecca Thau (History & Literature and French, 2020) conducted her senior thesis research in France last summer.
Vanessa Ruales Navas (Social Studies, 2020) traveled to the U.K. to conduct her senior thesis research.

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Speaker: Konstanty Gebert , Journalist and Co-founder of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews

Chair: Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

This event was sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe Seminar at CES and the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.


Sergey Lagodinsky , Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
André Sapir , Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Chair: Vivien Schmidt , Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University & CES Local Affiliate, chaired the discussion.

This event was organized by the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School, and co-sponsored by CES.
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