In this presentation, Vivien Schmidt will discuss her new book Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (Oxford University Press, 2020), in which she argues that the European Union's crisis of legitimacy is a result of its management of the 2010 Eurozone crisis. Schmidt argues that the EU's approach to mitigate the crisis by 'governing by rules and ruling by numbers' not only caused havoc in the economy but fueled political discontent across the region.

Presenter: 

Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

This event will be held virtually; please register to attend. 

Hosted by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). 

As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the planet, changes big and small are changing human lives and our future prospects. Among those changes, few other than the discovery and effective distribution of a vaccine will be as consequential as the changes taking place in our schools. 

In this panel, Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will present his research examining the global impact of COVID-19. He will be joined by several alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Education who contributed to his just-released book on the subject.

Speakers:

Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Faculty Director, International Education Policy  

Vinh Le Anh, Vietnam Institute of Education Sciences

Drew Edwards, Pangea Educational Development

Keya Lamba, Consultant

Sajida H. Shroff, Altamont Group UAE

Daniel Tapia, Genera Consulting Mexico

This will be a virtual event; registration is required to attend.  Book available in digital and paperback formats.

To celebrate its centennial year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education is celebrating 100 Years of Impact. 

Please join us for a webinar that highlights the voices of Muslim women activists campaigning for egalitarian reform in Muslim family laws across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. We will discuss discriminatory laws in their political and historical context, explore key issues and challenges that inform experiences and advocacy strategies in different Muslim countries, and draw inspiration from the collective mobilization of Muslim women working together to achieve equality under the law.

Featuring: 

Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Musawah;

Marwa Sharafeddin, Middle East and North Africa Region Senior Expert at Musawah;

Hala Al-Karib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa);

Moderated by Salomé Gómez-Upegui, LLM ‘18, Womens Leadership Consultant.

Registration is required to attend the event. 

Hosted by the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World and co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and Musawah.

Interview with expert in the history of international relations, Mary Elise Sarotte.

Professor Sarrotte is the inaugural holder of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Most recently, she was the Dean’s Professor of History and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). She is also a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. Sarotte earned her AB in History and Science at Harvard and her PhD in History at Yale University. She is the author or editor of five books, including The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall and 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, both of which were selected as Financial Times Books of the Year, among other distinctions and awards. Following graduate school, Sarotte served as a White House Fellow, then joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge, where she received tenure before accepting an offer to return to the United States to teach at USC. Sarotte is a former Humboldt Scholar, a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She also serves on the board of the Willy Brandt Foundation in Berlin.

Registration is required for this webinar event. 

Hosted by the German American Conference (GAC) as part of its 2020 Virtual German American Event Series; Co-Hosted by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studides (CES). 
 

Join us for the first event of the “What Justice Looks Like” discussion series: a conversation with mothers from across the Americas who, after losing children to police and state violence, have become powerful activists fighting for justice and institutional changes to end state violence affecting Black, indigenous, and low-income youth. 

Registration required to attend this event / É necessário registro para participar deste evento / Se requiere inscripción para asistir a este evento 

Speakers include:
Dorothy Holmes, Ronnieman Foundation and Justice for Families, Chicago, United States 
Débora Maria da Silva, Mothers of May, Brazil
Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast, Brazil
Jacqueline Castillo, Mothers of False Positives of Soacha and Bogotá, Colombia
Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mothers and Fathers of the 43 Disappeared Students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico

Yanilda Gonzalez (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.  

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Resistindo a Violência do Estado nas Américas: Mães na Linha de Frente

Quinta-feira, 8 de outubro às 17h (hora São Paulo)

Um diálogo virtual com mães de jovens assasinados pela polícia e forças armadas, lutando pela justiça e reformas institucionais para combater a violência do estado que afeta a juventude negra, indígena e pobre nas Américas.

Convidadas:

Dorothy Holmes, Fundação Ronnieman e Justiça para as Famílias, Chicago, EUA
Débora Maria da Silva, Mães de Maio, Brasil
Rute Fiuza, Mães de Maio do Nordeste, Brasil
Jacqueline Castillo, Mães dos Falsos Positivos de Soacha e Bogotá, Colômbia
Cristina Bautista Salvador, Mães e Pais dos 43 Estudantes Desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa, Mexico

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Resistiendo la Violencia de Estado en las Americas: Madres en la Línea de Frente

Jueves 8 de octubre a las 3pm hora Bogotá/CDMX

Un diálogo virtual con madres de jóvenes asesinados por policías y fuerzas armadas, luchando por la justicia y reformas institucionales para combatir la violencia de estado impactando la juventud negra, indígena y pobre en las Américas.

Invitadas:

Dorothy Holmes, Fundación Ronnieman y Justicia para las Familias, Chicago, EEUU
Débora Maria da Silva, Madres de Mayo, Brasil
Rute Fiuza, Madres de Mayo del Nordeste, Brasi

About the 'What Justice Looks Like' Series:

Recent uprisings in cities throughout the US against racialized police violence, along with mass protest movements from Chile to Colombia to Haiti against long-running structural inequality and exclusion, have demonstrated that policymakers and political leaders routinely remain disconnected from, or actively ignore and silence, the experiences of communities directly harmed by their policies. 

“What Justice Looks Like” takes a perspective of “public policy from below” by centering the voices of those on the ground level of struggles for justice, but traditionally excluded from the halls of power.  This year-long discussion series centers the voices and experiences of activists and communities directly affected by state violence and mass incarceration in trauma-informed conversations about (in)justice, power, resistance, and pathways to racial justice, equity and meaningful change. 

Convened by Assistant Professor Yanilda González. This series is sponsored by Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center for Public Leadership, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Weiner Center for Social Policy. 

This event is sponsored by Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center for Public Leadership, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, DRCLAS Brazil Office, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Wiener Center for Social Policy.

Community Spaces for Affinity Groups: Drop-in sessions for self-care and wellness. 

Our Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) Leadership Council members are collaborating with practitioners from Counseling and Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to host Community Spaces for Affinity Groups starting the week of October 5th. Thursday from 5:00-6:00pm ET is the international community space. These spaces are part of a larger effort to support members of our community who are experiencing heightened anxiety in response to the current moment (Covid, racial injustice, the upcoming election, etc.). All Harvard members including students, staff, faculty, postdocs, research fellows, and academic personnel are welcome.

Spaces will be hosted by affinity group, allowing individuals with intersectional identities to attend multiple days. Register to attend Community Spaces for Affinity Groups. Open to members of the Harvard community. October sessions will be held on select Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays 500-6:00 pm EDT by Zoom. Future sessions will be offered through the academic semester: 

Monday, October 05 |  Non POC/ Allies for people with marginalized identities (past session) 
Tuesday, October 13 | LGBTQ
Thursday, October 15 | People with disabilities
Tuesday, October 20 | BIPOC/ Multiracial
Thursday, October 22 | Indigenous / Native American
Tuesday, October 27 | Latinx
Wednesday, October 28 | Black/ African American
Thursday, October 29 | Asian/ Asian American

We welcome individuals with disabilities to our programs. If you have any questions or require accommodations, please reach us at

in advance of your participation.

Hosted by the Office for Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. 

# After Lockdown is a 50-minute animated film presenting individual stories about living through the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic in different places in the world. Students and professors, but also contributors from outside the academic community, recorded themselves narrating their personal experiences with lockdown, travel-restrictions, switch to new forms of education, displacement, isolation, job-loss, and more broadly, adapting their life to the new circumstances imposed on them, and on their communities. The oral testimonials featured in the film were collected and selected jointly by Harvard University’s Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, during the summer of 2020. Podcast curation and video animations are designed by Mr. Sebs, an animation studio co-directed by a Harvard CMES alum. # After Lockdown is a combination of narrations grouped together and illustrated, to form a collective scrapbook, made to document a moment of change, to be passed-on to future generations and to our future selves.

In this session, join the film directors:

Mohamad Saleh, Co-Director and Writer; and Daniel Salgado, Co-Director and Animator, Mr. Sebs

With participants, producers and crew:

Lauren Montague, Administrative Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies;

Sihem Lamine, Administrative and Program Manager, CMES Tunisia;

Elizabeth Flanagan, Program Coordinator for Events, CMES.

Christos Giannopoulos, Managing Director, Center for Hellenic Studies Greece;

Evangelos Katsarelis, Programs and Events Manager, Center for Hellenic Studies Greece;

Nicolas Prevelakis, Lecturer on Social Studies, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.

Watch the premiere showing of #AfterLockdown during 24hH: 24 Hours of Harvard. The film will broadcoast Wednesday 7 October 20:30-21:30 ET. 

Co-hosted by the Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, based in Tunis (est. 2017) and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University, based in Nafplion (est. 2008).