VIRTUAL: Coronavirus: A View from within Italy

Join a conversation with the Center for European Studies affiliated faculty Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. They will be discussing events related to coronavirus in Europe, and potential implications for the European Union. This event will be held online. Please RSVP by Friday, April 17 at 9 a.m.

Both Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks are currently on leave while conducting research at the European University Institute outside of Florence, Italy.

Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R. Kenan distinguished professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recurring Robert Schuman fellow at the EUI, Florence. Born and educated in Belgium with a doctorate from the KU Leuven, she was a Fulbright fellow at Cornell University (1989-90) and a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1991-94). In 1994, she joined the University of Toronto. In 2000, she moved to the University of North Carolina. Between 2004 and 2016, she also held the chair in multilevel governance at the VU Amsterdam. Hooghe has had fellowships and visiting professorships at the European University Institute in Florence, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, VU Amsterdam, the Konstanz University, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Sciences Po, and the Free University of Berlin. She is a former chair of the European politics society section of the APSA and of the European union studies association. In 2017 she received the Daniel Elazar distinguished federalism scholar award of the APSA.

Gary Marks is Burton Craige professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was educated in England and received his doctorate from Stanford University. In 2010 he was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) for his contributions to political science and he was the recipient of a €2.5 million advanced European research council grant (2010-2015). In 2017 he received the Daniel Elazar distinguished federalism scholar award of the APSA. He co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies and EU Center of Excellence in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and served as director until 2006. Marks has had fellowships and visiting professorships at the VU Amsterdam, the Free University of Berlin, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Sciences Po, Konstanz University, McMaster University, the University of Twente, and was national fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Marks is a Robert Schuman fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.