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...event was sponsored by the Kennedy School’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe and co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies...
With purses heavy from a recent donation, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is hoping to spark College students’ interest in the continent’s culture and politics as part of a new initiative, Internationalize Undergraduate Education. The program—including faculty-student dinners, thesis workshops, and research opportunities—hopes to engage students in Europoean studies throughout their college careers, according to the center’s executive director, Patricia H. Craig. “We are helping students make sense of what they are learning, not only within the general context...
...gather near the Saint Michel fountain.In Paris for the summer just like so many of my American college peers, I found my alibi for being here in a certain senior thesis on French history that remains entirely to be written. Generously funded by Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, I was endowed not only with the necessary pecunia to keep me in a tiny flat off the Boulevard Diderot, but also with something more immaterial, yet of crucial value: a letter beginning with “To Whom...
...trips to out-of-town conferences.“We are talking about small amounts of money, but major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,” P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies had to reduce spending by 20 percent last year, according to its director, Peter A. Hall. In so doing, the center eliminated an annual graduate student conference and cut back on the workshops and post-doctoral fellowships it sponsored, said Hall, who is the Krupp Foundation professor...
...course offerings in 19th century continental thought, an underrepresented area since the departure of continental specialist Seyla Benhabib in 2001. “Those hundred years were crucial for the development of modern thinking,” said Peter A. Hall, director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), where Rosen will be a faculty associate. “Now we have someone who knows the debates and writing of that period exceptionally well.” Hall praised the breadth of Rosen’s intellectual interests, which has produced work on Georg Hegel and Immanuel...