Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series

The Visiting Scholars Brown-Bag Lunch Seminar, organized by Arthur Goldhammer, is intended to be an open public forum in which visiting scholars at CES present their work in an informal setting. The group is highly interdisciplinary, and topics vary according to the interests of each year's visitors. Speakers present their work in a form accessible to scholars working in fields other than their own. Papers may be circulated in advance, although this is not required. After each presentation, there is ample time for critique and discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch.


"The Visiting Scholars seminar is an intellectual feast for anyone interested in European scholarship in history and the social sciences. The discussions range freely across disciplinary as well as national boundaries, and participants come away with a lively appreciation of work being done by colleagues in many specialties. The exchange of ideas that takes place here has already borne fruit in the work of past participants and will no doubt continue to do so in the future."
- Arthur Goldhammer, Lunch Seminar Chair
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Visiting Scholars Lunch Seminar
Chaired by Arthur Goldhammer

Upcoming Events


November 18, 2009
Francesca Bignami, CES Visiting Scholar
"Cooperative Legalism: Historical Continuity and Institutional Change in European Regulatory Governance"


December 2, 2009
Bruno Cousin, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Making of an Islamophobic Dominant Intellectual: The Fallaci Moment in the Italian Public Space (2001-2006)"


December 9, 2009
Nicholas Attfield, CES Visiting Scholar
"Hans Pfitzner the anti-German; and other conservative musicians in the Weimar Republic"


December 16, 2009
Wolfgang Gick, CES Visiting Scholar
"Platforms Versus Franchisors: Two Contractual Modes When Consumers Care About Quality"




Past Events
Events Listed in Reverse Chronological Order

November 4, 2009
Muriel Rouyer, CES Visiting Scholar
"European Virtue? Constitutionalism and the Culture of Rights in the EU"



October 21, 2009
Sofia Perez, CES Visiting Scholar
"Immigration Policy and Welfare States in Europe"


October 14, 2009
Odile Quintin, Director General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth at the European Commission
"Comparing US and non-US Higher Education Systems: A Roundtable Discussion"

*co-sponsored by the Crisis and Reform in European Higher Education Study Group


October 7, 2009
Azzim Gulamhussen, CES Visiting Scholar
"Foreign Market Entry"


September 30, 2009
Łukaz Wardyn, CES Visiting Scholar
"Spelling your Name in Europe: Kleczkowski v. Kleckovski"


September 23, 2009
Eloi Laurent, CES Visiting Scholar
"An Ever More De-carbonated Union? Towards a Better European Taxation against Climate Change"

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