Seminar on Modern Europe

The Seminar on Modern Europe is a monthly faculty colloquium to discuss new books.  We approach Europe from diverse perspectives, complementing nation-oriented studies while placing Europe in transatlantic, multi-national, and global contexts. Emphasizing interdisciplinary dialogue, the seminar provides a venue for sustained discussion with colleagues and thus contributes to the enrichment of our intellectual community.

We are pleased to invite your nomination of a forthcoming book in European Studies to feature in an upcoming session of the Columbia Seminar on Modern Europe.  Nomination form may be found here.

For further information:

Chair:                Nancy W. Collins, nwcollins@columbia.edu

Rapporteur:        Myrisha Lewis, msl2155@columbia.edu

2009-2010 Schedule

All seminars take place on Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30pm at Faculty House (Conference Room #1).

October 22, 2009

Speaker:  Allison Stanger, Middlebury College

Book: One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale, 2009)

November 5, 2009

Speaker: Peter Baldwin, UCLA

Book: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike (Oxford, 2009)

December 3, 2009 

Speaker:  Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester

Book:  Party Competition Between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe (Cambridge, 2008)

February 4, 2010

Speaker:  David Calleo, Johns Hopkins University
Book:  Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy (Cambridge, 2009)                                 

March 4, 2010
Speaker: Mary Elise Sarotte, University of Southern California
Book:   1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton, 2009) 

         
April 8, 2010
Speaker: Katerina Clark, Yale University          

Book:   Moscow: The Fourth Rome (Yale, 2010)

Past speakers have included:
Suzanne Berger, MIT
Sheri Berman, Barnard College, Columbia University
Dominic C. Boyer, Cornell University and Rice University
Deborah Bradley-Kramer, Columbia University
William Drozdiak, American Council on Germany         
Walter Frisch, Columbia University
Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Karen Henson, Columbia University
Warren Hoge, International Peace Institute

Jane Kramer, The New Yorker
Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University
Mark Mazower, Columbia University
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Elaine Sisman, Columbia University
Jack Snyder, Columbia University
Timothy D. Snyder, Yale University
Josh Whitford, Columbia University