Rachel Epstein is a professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and academic co-director of the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between the economy and security outcomes, international organizations and domestic compliance, the politics of finance, states in transition and civil-military relations. Epstein’s current research focuses on the role of banks in the European debt and currency crises, the developmental prospects for the EU’s newest member states and the consequences…

Rahsaan Maxwell is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The central question for his research is how national boundaries operate. Within that theme, he has pursued numerous topics including immigrant integration, political representation, identity and political behavior, primarily in Western Europe. His recent work focuses on urban-rural divides, cultural diversity, globalization and national culture. This event is part of the Center for European Studies' Friday Lecture Series.

David Armitage will discuss the implications of recent European security and defense initiatives on transatlantic relations, placing these moves in a broader historical context. Armitage is the senior analyst for Europe at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). This event is sponsored by the Center for European Studies.

Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history – yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive study of antifascisms in Spain, France, the UK and U.S., with new interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, French Popular Front and Second World War. He shows how two types of antifascism – revolutionary…

At the moment a consensus exists on the history of the European project, according to which the process of European unionization in the post-WWII era developed via an innocuous commitment to simple economic considerations. The Coal and Steel Community (1951) is held up as an exemplar of pragmatism that led slowly to political cooperation leading to the formation of the EU. Culture is treated as playing little to no role. The consensus on this history is wrong. A return to…

Kiran Klaus Patel is professor and chair of European and global history at Maastricht University. He also serves as Jean Monnet Chair and head of the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Before joining Maastricht University, Patel was a joint chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and an assistant professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been a Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Study at Harvard University, a visiting professor…

This seminar will specifically explore value creation and citizen engagement as main characteristics in reforming the design and delivery of public services in Europe. Associate professor Greta Nasi and assistant professor Maria Cucciniello from the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy will conduct the seminar. This seminar is co-organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government.

Cas Mudde was born in the Netherlands, where he gained his master’s degree and Ph.D. in political science at Leiden University, under the supervision of the late Peter Mair. Before moving to the U.S. in 2008 to join his wife, he held tenure-track positions at Central European University in Hungary, the University of Edinburgh in the U.K., and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. The lecture series is designed to enhance students’ understanding of transatlantic studies through direct contact with academic…

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is an associate fellow and professor of comparative public policy at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Initially appointed as university lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2004, he held various appointments in the department and fellowships at Green Templeton College as well as at St Cross College. From 2013 to 2017 he was the Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics, and from 2011 to 2015, he served as head of department. You can find further information about…

Join the Center for European Studies for this workshop with Milada Vachudova, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, which focuses on trying to understand how the EU shapes the quality of democracy in existing and candidate states at this difficult crossroads in its history – and how Russia and even the United States may be pulling them in a different, more authoritarian direction. It is also to unpack one of the key drivers of domestic political change: when and…

Melina Juárez Pérez is a graduate of the TAM program and an instructor of political science and women, gender and sexuality studies at Western Washington University. She utilizes theories that speak to and incorporate the lived realities of marginalized peoples; theories such as embodiment, historical trauma, decolonization, intersectionality and Marxism. Her work aims at developing a critical understanding of the structures of power and privilege that inform policy and ultimately affect immigrant health. The lecture series is designed to enhance students’…

Following four years as chief of group programs and public inquiries in UN Visitors Services, Kathryn Good has returned to the Civil Society Unit in the UN Department of Global Communications, where she now oversees civil society liaison functions. From 2010-2013, Kathryn managed English language and communications programs globally for the UN Secretariat. Prior to joining the UN, Kathryn was director of international programs and language area studies at Brown University for ten years. Kathryn has held academic appointments at Boston University, Middlebury-Monterey Institute of International…