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
Photo of Arthur Goldhammer


Visiting Scholars Lunch Seminar
Chaired by Arthur Goldhammer

Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Theresa Reinhold, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
The Politics of Secondary Rule-Making

Past Events
Events Listed in Reverse Chronological Order

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Daniel Mügge, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
European Re-regulation meets Global Financial Governance: Constraint or Complement?

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tomaso Piffer, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
The Allies and the European Resistance. 1939-1945

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Kumiko Haba, Visiting Scholar, WCFIA
Democracy and Xenophobia in Trans-border Global Society

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Miguel Lopez-Morell, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Seeking Out and Building Monopolies, Rothschild Strategies in Non Ferrous Metals International Markets (1830-1940)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Liza Mügge, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Intersectional Approaches to Political Representation: Ethnic Minority Women in Europe

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Martin Shroeder, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Do Changing Views of Social Justice Influence Social Inequality?

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Christos Paraskevopoulos, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Corruption, Inequality and Trust: The Greek Vicious Circle, the EU and the Economic Crisis

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Brigid Laffan, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Sovereigns, Banks and Debt: How the Euro Crisis Is Being Defined

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sophie Mützel, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Newness and its Stories: The Emergence of a New Market

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Will Phelan, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
What is Sui Generis about the European Union? Costly International Cooperation in a Self-Contained Regime

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Stefanie Hiss, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Rating Agencies between Crises and Regulation

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Cornelia Woll, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Saving the Banks: Comparing Bailout Strategies in the United States and Europe during the Financial Crisis

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nasar Meer, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
The Narcissism of Small 'Difference'? Contrasting Interculturalism with Multiculturalism

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Kim Priemel, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Reasserting Western Identities in the Nuremberg Trials

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Quinn Slobodian, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
The World Economic Imaginary in Fin-de-Siècle Germany

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
no meeting ⁄ break

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
David Lutton, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
EU Hedge Fund Regulation: Competition and Connectedness

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Martin Shroeder, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
A Unified Typology of Capitalisms? Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research into a Unified Framework

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Andrea Filippetti, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
Labour market institutions, skills, and the resilience of innovation during the financial crisis in Europe

Working Paper available: http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/papers/Labor_market_innovation_and_the_crisis_WP.pdf

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Camille Hamidi, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies
How People Use Everyday Ethnic Categorizations to Make Sense of Politics: The Case of French Urban Deprived Areas

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Mareike Kleine, Visiting Scholar, CES
Informal Governance in the European Union and Beyond

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Alexander Engel, Kennedy Fellow, CES
The Birth of the Risk Economy: Futures Trading in the 19th and 20th centuries

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Renée Haferkamp, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies; Former Director General of the European Commission
Enlargement and Deepening in the European Union: A View from the Inside

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Nicolas Dodier, Visiting Scholar, CES
From Pain to Law: How the Prescence of the Victims Transforms a Criminal Trial

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Eveline Bouwers, Visiting Scholar, CES
The Aesthetics of Religious Conflict in Fin-de-siècle Europe: Bavaria and Brittany Compared


Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor, Economics Department
Ach Europa: European Monetary Union's Perspectives


Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tamas Meszerics, Visiting Scholar, CES
Were German Occupation Policies in World War II Improvised and Counterproductive, or Methodical and Efficient (or anything in between)?


Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Dimitri Constas, Visiting Scholar, CES
The European Human Rights Regime and the Challenge of Irregular Migration

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
David Lipsey, Lord Lipsey of Tooting Bec, Member of the House of Lords
Change in British Politics, 1972-2010

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Amandine Crespy,Visiting Scholar, CES
The Politics of Services in Europe. From Liberalization to Social Integration?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Uta Poiger, CES Visiting Scholar
Beauty and Business in Germany: An International History

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, CES Visiting Scholar
Diverging Pathways to Flexibility: Labor Market Adjustment in Germany and Denmark during Neoliberal Times

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Lydia Mechtenberg, CES Visiting Scholar
Social Identity and the Paradox of Integration

Wednesday, March 9, 2011     re-scheduled from February 2nd.
Young-sun Hong, CES Visiting Scholar
The Ugly German in the Age of Three Worlds: Afro-Asian Wars of National Liberation and Medical Humanitarianism in the Early Cold War

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Marjo Koivisto, CES Visiting Scholar
Normative State Power in International Relations: Scientific and Moral Mindsets in Transatlantic Welfare State Consolidation

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Jacques Rupnik, CES Visiting Scholar
Does Central Europe Still Exist?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Marc Helbling, CES Visiting Scholar
Why Swiss-Germans Dislike Germans: Opposition to Culturally Similar and Highly Skilled Immigrants

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Maria Koinova, CES Visiting Scholar
Claims through Contained or Transgressive Contention? The Albanian, Armenian, and Palestinian Diasporas in the UK Compared

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Gerald Steinacher, CES Visiting Scholar
'The Red Cross and the Swastika': The Treatment of Holocaust Victims and Nazi War Criminals by the Red Cross, 1942-1950

Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Laura Werner, CES Visiting Scholar
The Politics of Virility - Political Participation, Gender and Sexuality around the French Revolution

Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Rüdiger Graf, CES Visiting Scholar
'Petroknowledge' and Politics in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Jan Teorell, CES Visiting Scholar
Cleaning up the Vote: The Case of Electoral Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1909

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Harvey Redgrave, CES Visiting Scholar
Assessing the Potential for Stronger European Cooperation to Prevent Transnational Organized Crime

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Mathieu Segers, CES Visiting Scholar
De Gaulle, Monnet and Transnational Coalition Formation in European Negotiations

Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Sarah Guillou, CES Visiting Scholar
Why Industrial Policy of EU Members Should be Designed at the European Level?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Michele Alacevich, CES Visiting Scholar
Post-war Reconstruction and Long-term Development Policies: the World Bank and Italy, 1947-65

Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Mary Sarotte, CES Visiting Scholar
The Politics of the European Ordering Moment, 1989-90, And Their Legacy 20 Years Later

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Acting Director, CES
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Does the Communist Legacy Matter

October 6, 2010
Elisabeth von Thadden, CES Visiting Scholar
About Change: How Modern Democracies Are Becoming Low-Carbon Societies

September 29, 2010
Christina May, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Scientification of the Social Question. Social Reformers' Discourses on Poverty and Risk Around 1900"

September 22, 2010
Warren Rosenblum, CES Visiting Scholar
"Justice, the Jews, and the Paranoid Style in Weimar Politics: The Haas-Helling Affair of 1926"

September 15, 2010
Steffen Hillmert, CES Visiting Scholar
"Links Between Immigration and Education in Modern Societies"

May 19, 2010
Kristen Scheiwe, CES Visiting Scholar
"Path Dependency and Paradigm Shifts: Institutional Changes in Early Childhood Education in Comparison"

May 5, 2010
Christiana Reinecke, CES Visiting Scholar
"Measuring Inequality in East and West: Social Sciences and Social Policy in the two Germanys"


April 28, 2010
Hartmut Lenz, CES Visiting Scholar
"Success or failure? The role of public opinion in EU treaty negotiations"


April 21, 2010
Chris Allen, CES Visiting Scholar
"Institutions and German Organized Capitalism: Path Dependence and State (Re)building in 21st Century Europe?"

Paper available: Ideas, Institutions and Organized Capitalism: The German Model of Political Economy 20 Years after Unification, German Politics and Society (28:4), forthcoming Summer 2010)


April 14, 2010
John Shovlin, CES Visiting Scholar
"Finance and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century: The Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles as Episodes in International History"


April 7, 2010
Peter Niesen, CES Visiting Scholar
"After Militant Democracy? Bans on Formerly Dominant Party in the Politics of Transition"


March 31, 2010
Denis Segrestin, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Firm as an Institution in the Global Economy - New Empirical Approaches"


March 24, 2010
Marion Vera Rowekamp, CES Visiting Scholar
"Continuity and Disruption: Marie Munk's Life before and after 1933"


March 17, 2010
Spring Break; no talk


March 10, 2010
Carsten Schneider, CES Visiting Scholar
"Democracies and Capitalism: How Markets Shape the Qualities of Democracies"


March 3, 2010
Rita Nikolai, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Dual Vocational Training System under Pressure - Developments in Upper-Secondary Education in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the mid 1970s"


February 24, 2010
Petra Boehnke, CES Visiting Scholar
"Poverty and Social Capital in European Welfare States"


February 17, 2010
Marius R. Busemeyer, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Partisan Foundations of Skill Regimes: Applying Esping-Andersen to the Study of Education Systems"


February 10, 2010
Hendrik Ankenbrand, CES Visiting Scholar
"Fear of Change? Political and Social Reform Process in China after the Global Financial Crisis"
February 3, 2010
Stephanie Olsen, CES Visiting Scholar
"Boys Will Be Men: Informal Education and the Male Citizen in fin-de-siècle Britain"


January 27, 2010
Jürgen Gerhards, CES Visiting Scholar
"Globalization, Europeanization and the Importance of Transnational Linguistic Capital"


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


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


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)"


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


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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