German Studies at CES

Since its founding, the Center has fostered close ties with Germany. One of CES’s oldest programs, the John F Kennedy Memorial Fellowships, begun in the nineteen sixties, continues today. The Program for the Study of Germany and Europe was the auspice under which CES was named, along with Berkeley and Georgetown, one of three Centers of Excellence in the United States by the German Government under its initiative in the nineteen nineties. Through its graduate training, support for undergraduate research and public programming, the Center continues to foster the activities that promote an understanding of Europe and particularly Germany now and in generations to come.
CES in Berlin


Early in the 21st Century, CES decided to maintain a presence and programming in Germany. In 2002, the Center opened an office in Berlin and the Harvard CES Berlin Dialogues program, a series of public debates, was born. Conceived of and run by Abby Collins, one of the founding members of the Center, the Berlin Dialogues brought European and American perspectives and voices to contemporary political and cultural issues.

This year marks a transition in the structure of our program in Berlin. In 2009, the Berlin Dialogues will join forces with the WZB (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), a renowned center for social science research that is the largest of its kind in Europe. The partnership with the WZB will allow a closer collaboration between the two institutions, benefitting faculty and graduate students from both. The Dialogues will continue and while fewer sessions are envisioned than previously, the content will be driven to a greater extent by the current research interests of Harvard faculty members and we expect to continue to draw former fellows, alumni, academics, journalists, and the general public to talks.


Meet the Kennedy Fellows



This year, the Center welcomes two Kennedy fellows to the Visiting Scholars program. Helke Rausch is an historian from Leipzig writing on American philanthropy towards the European Social Sciences in the 20th Century and Mannheim-based sociologist, Claus Wendt, is looking at ideas and institutions in healthcare.

For more information about the Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, please visit the DAAD’s website.


German Studies Directories

The new German Directories are here. The CES community is one that exists for students, visitors and scholars after their time at Harvard. Through the directories, the Center keeps up to date with individuals either from Germany or working on Germany who have been here as students, scholars or faculty.

German Studies at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Alumnae and Alumni, 1967-2008

Graduate Students Trained under the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Harvard University, 1990-2000

Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, James Bryant Conant Post-Doctoral Fellows, 1990-2005






News

CES-WZB Berlin Dialogues event
Photo of Richard Freeman
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 5 - 7 p.m.

Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University

"Economics of Greed and the US Brand of Capitalism

More information on the 2009 series»

CES Hosts German Fulbright Higher Educational Experts Seminar

"CES and the University Marshal’s Office recently hosted a number of higher education experts from Germany to introduce them to key issues faced by graduate schools in the United States."


CES welcomes writer Peter Schneider

The author of The Wall Jumper and other acclaimed works will be in residence at the Center for three weeks in November. While here, he will offer public lectures and small seminars for students.

CES and WZB collaborate on new program of Berlin Dialogues

This Spring, the CES’s Dialogues in Berlin will begin a new phase. Working with the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin), one of Europe’s leading social science research facilities, the Center will sponsor panel discussions with Harvard faculty members and European colleagues. CES-WZB Berlin Dialogues will address ‘big-picture’ topics that can be addressed from multiple disciplines and in which there is common interest and ongoing inquiry by researchers at both Harvard and the WZB. To sign up for the CES-WZB Berlin Dialogues mailing list, click here.

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