Hosted by the TransAtlantic Masters Program, the CES Friday Lecture lecture series features talks on European topics held most Fridays during fall semester. Please click on the events below to view the details for each.

FALL 2017

• Affective geopolitics: Entanglements of geopolitical lives of Syrian refugees in Turkey | SEPT. 1

• Banu Gökarıksel, UNC-Chapel Hill

• Corruption versus Criminal State: Hungary’s Post-Communist Mafia State in the EU | SEPT. 8

• Bálint Magyar, Sociologist and Former Education Minister, Hungary
• Video Recording

• EU Defense Cooperation in the Trump Era | SEPT. 15

• Niklas Helwig, Center for Transatlantic Relations
• Video Recording

• Jeremy Corbyn and the Future of the European Center-Left | SEPT. 22

• David Coates, Wake Forest University
• Video Recording

• Religious Regulation and Political Mobilization in Central Asia and the EU (Canceled) | SEPT. 29

• Pauline Jones, Michigan State University
• Milada Vachudova, UNC-Chapel Hill

• “Democratic backsliding” within and beyond the EU: Did the normative power of Europe fail? | OCT. 6

• Silvia von Steinsdorff, Humboldt University

• Respectable Radicals and The Euro-Nationalist International: Explaining Right-Wing Populist Alliances in the European Parliament | OCT. 27

• Duncan McDonnell, Griffith University

• Two continents, four regional bureaus and a touch of the EU in the Foreign Service | NOV. 17

• Stephanie Hutchison, US Foreign Service

• The Europeanization of Higher Education and Vocational Training | DEC. 1

• Justin J.W. Powell, Institute of Education & Society

FALL 2016

• THE BREXIT SHOCK PANEL DISCUSSION | SEPT. 8

  • UNC Center for European Studies Director John D. Stephens
  • UNC Professors Lisbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Konrad Jarausch
  • Video Recording

• Recasting Germany: Politics and Policy After Unification | SEPT. 16

  • Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University
  • Christiane Lemke, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Video Recording

• THE DIVERSITY BARGAIN AND OTHER DILEMMAS OF RACE, ADMISSIONS, AND MERITOCRACY AT ELITE UNIVERSITIES | SEPT. 30

  • Natasha Warikoo, Harvard University
  • Video Recording

• LGBT RIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE: COMPETING NARRATIVES OF EUROPEANIZATION AND NATIONALISM | OCT. 7

  • Safia Swimelar, Elon University

• WHEN STATES COME OUT: EUROPE’S SEXUAL MINORITIES AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY | OCT 14

  • Phil Ayoub, Drexel University
  • Video Recording

• CORRUPTION AND THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE | OCT. 28

  • Marko Klasnja, Dane Taleski, and Kiran Auerbach will be part of a roundtable discussion with Jean Monnet Chair, Milada Vachudova.
  • Video Recording

• SOCIAL CAPITAL OVER THE LIFE-COURSE: SOCIAL SELECTION IN THE TRANSITION TO SECONDARY SCHOOL IN GERMANY | NOV. 4

  • Betina Hollstein, Universität Bremen (Germany)

• INEQUALITY, GROWTH, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE | NOV. 11

  • Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia
  • Video Recording

• BREXIT IN THE WAKE OF THE US ELECTION | NOV. 18

  • David Coates, Wake Forest University
  • Video Recording

• DAN MORRISON: NAVIGATING AN INTERNATIONAL CAREER IN THE EU | NOV. 28

  • Dan Morrison, OECD

• REPAYMENT AS REPENTANCE? THE PRICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES | DEC. 2

  • Jessie Hronesova, Kathy Powers, and Claire Greenstein will be part of a roundtable discussion with Jean Monnet Chair, Milada Vachudova.
  • Video Recording

FALL 2015

• PIKETTY’S CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND THE DETERMINANTS OF TOP 1% INCOME SHARES. | AUG. 28

  • CES Director John Stephens, UNC

• DEMOCRATIZATION IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE: AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AND THE LEVERAGE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION | SEPT. 11

  • Jean Monnet Chair Milada Vachudova, UNC

• GASTRO-COSMOPOLITANISM: SUPERMARKET PRODUCTS IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM | SEPT. 18

  • Rahsaan Maxwell, UNC

• CITIZENSHIP WITHOUT DUTIES | SEPT. 25

  • Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen

• BANKING NATIONALISM IN THE EUROZONE’S DEBT AND CURRENCY CRISIS | OCT. 9

  • Rachel Epstein, University of Denver

• THE LENS OF RACE: CONCEPTS OF DIFFERENCE IN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES | OCT. 23

  • Ann Morning, NYU

• BANK POWER AND BAILOUTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES | OCT. 30

  • Pepper Culpepper, European University Institute

• NO GROWTH AND NO EQUALITY: WHY THE NEW ECONOMY CREATES SECULAR STAGNATION | NOV. 6

  • Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia

• ARE EU CITIZENS TIRED OF ENLARGEMENT? FINDINGS FROM SIX COUNTRIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR FUTURE ENLARGEMENTS OF THE EU | NOV. 13

  • Antoaneta Dimitrova, University of Leiden

• STARTING OVER: BUILDING A CREDIBLE PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE IN UK POLITICS | NOV. 13

  • David Coates, Wake Forest University

• CAN EUROPEAN ISLAM BE ALGERIAN, MOROCCAN AND TURKISH? | NOV. 20

  • Jonathan Laurence, Boston College and nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution

 
Click below to access the 2015 Friday Lecture Series Syllabus:

POLI 882 Syllabus, 2015