CES News & Events | March 2022

CES News & Events

March 2022

War Returns to Europe

As Russia Invaded, Fiona Hill weighed in on Putin

Elaine Papoulias, Fiona Hill & Grzegorz Ekiert

On February 24 the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) welcomed Fiona Hill (Ph.D. ‘98) back to Harvard, hosting her for a roundtable discussion with graduate and undergraduate students. Hill, who served three U. S. presidents on the National Security Council and National Intelligence Council, originally planned to lead an informal discussion on Europe and Russia. However, as the day proved to be a somber one – when Russia attacked Ukraine – the conversation transformed.

"Fight misinformation with information wherever you find it, be it at home, in the classroom, or on the Yard. ... Putin is carefully working to distort the past and manipulate the current narrative."

Upcoming Events

The Impact of Russian Sanctions

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

11:00am-12:00pm (EST)

Sergey Aleksashenko – Member of the Board, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and the Free Russia Foundation

Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

Adam Smith – Partner, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP; Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United States Department of Treasury; Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council (2010-2015)

Moderator: Alexandra Vacroux – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the European Economic Policy Forum, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

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Special Event — The War in Ukraine: A Harvard Community Conversation

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Mariana Budjeryn – Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School

Emily Channell-Justice – Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Oleh Kotsyuba – Manager of Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Thomas Remington – Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Emory University

Moderator: Alexandra Vacroux – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Sponsored by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies & the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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The Link between Ukraine fighting & fossil fuels

Helena Marshall, Luisa Neubauer, Noah Secondo, Rebecca Spinner

The war in Ukraine may not appear to be a direct consequence of climate change, but it is fueled by oil and natural gas.

That was the message on Monday, as climate activists and co-founders of Germany’s Fridays for Future Helena Marschall and Luisa Neubauer participated in an online discussion sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard and Brandeis University’s Center for German and European Studies.

CES Welcomes Spring Visiting Scholars

We are excited to introduce our Spring 2022 Visiting Scholars, who will be in residence at the Center.

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Graduate Student News

Responding to Disruption

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When COVID-19 restricted travel and closed archives around the world, many graduate students could not conduct research in Europe which was critical to their dissertations. Recipients of CES’s dissertation grants were no exception. CES, therefore, stepped in and announced new Disrupted Dissertation Grants to help graduate students resume travel and access important resources needed to advance their research during the pandemic. To date, CES has granted funding to 14 graduate students from five disciplines.

Grant Recipients

Recipient Spotlight

Rephael Stern

Afterlives of Empire: Postcolonial State Formation, 1939-1967

Rephael Stern (Ph.D. History) received a Disrupted Dissertation Grant from CES and will return to the United Kingdom to complete his research. He shared how time away from archives shifted his research focus.

“Originally, I was looking more broadly at law and economic legislation and the legacy of the British Empire. However, once COVID made it difficult to get to archive abroad, I ended up shifting my focus away from economic legislation and going deeper into the study of law and how legal doctrines developed. Narrowing the scope of my dissertation allowed me to investigate my topic more thoroughly.

I’ve also enjoyed thinking about how my research sheds light on how modern states run. I think COVID made this even more apparent and has shown how the British and American systems succeeded or failed in their legal responses to a major health crisis and how courts (acting in the name of law) facilitated or obstructed these efforts.”