CES News & Events December 13, 2020

At The Heart of Where Harvard and Europe Meet An Interview with Anna Popiel on Her Retirement

"There were so many great things about this job that I really loved and I loved it till the very last moment. I am very attached to CES and the community. I’m very grateful for friendships, for people's attitudes towards me, for people's patience with me." – Anna Popiel 36 Years at CES After 36 years at CES, Anna Popiel is retiring. Starting at Bryant Street with cramped working conditions and a typewriter, Anna has seen the Center grow and change. For many, she has become the heart of Adolphus Busch Hall, and in many ways she represents ‘where Harvard and Europe meet.’ We sat down with Anna to talk about her amazing journey through the decades and her upcoming retirement. Read More Share a Memory or Wish for Anna

Faculty in the News

Real Instituto Elcano Biden ha ganado las elecciones, pero seguimos en la América de Trump Sebastián Royo Read Article

Boston Review Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100 Peter E. Gordon Read Article

European Policy Analysis Responding to COVID‐19: The Case of Spain Sebastián Royo Read Article

Collegium Civitas in Warsaw Inaugural Lecture for the Opening of the Academic Year (in Polish) Grzegorz Ekiert View Lecture

Harvard University Asia Center Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements Grzegorz Ekiert View Event

The New York Times Opinion | The Resentment That Never Sleeps Peter Hall (Quoted) Read Article

In Memoriam: Guido Goldman

Guido Goldman, CES Founding Director and Visionary Europeanist, Dies at Age 83 In Memoriam

CES Senior Thesis Workshop European Nationalisms: New and Old

In November eight CES senior thesis grant recipients presented their preliminary research findings to the CES community. Their research represents a wide range of topics crossing many disciplines. View Video

Participants: Hannah Craig, “Children of the Ceasefire: An Analysis of the Post-Good Friday Generation in Northern Ireland” Elizabeth Oehmler, “A Study of Scottish Nationalism under Brexit” Emily Markowitz, “System Populists and Policy Populists: A New Lens for Exploring the Rise of Populism in Western Europe" Francesco Rolando, “Healthcare as a Border: Migrants' Access to and Exclusion from Healthcare Services in Turin, Italy” Leo Saenger, “Overtourism and Its Impacts on the Authenticity of Venetian Streetscapes” Nathaniel Steele, “The Impact of Nationalism on Music Education in Germany and the United States” Taylor Whitsell, “Explaining Stagnation in Domestic War Crimes Prosecutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia” Yuke Zheng, “The Impact of Overtourism in the Mediterranean Basin”

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What’s the EU for? Thinking about EU-Level Public Goods in a Post-COVID World European Union Seminar & European Economic Policy Forum Tehran Children: On the Trail of WWII Refugees in Central Asia and the Middle East Jews in Modern Europe Seminar 

European Wine Politics Food for Thought Seminar View More

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