Since its founding, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University has fostered close ties with Germany. The CES’s John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship Program began in the 1960s and it was named a Center of Excellence in the 1990s by the German government. Through its graduate training, support for undergraduate research and public programming, the Center has fostered activities that promote an understanding of Europe and particularly Germany.

From 2002 through 2008, the CES organized a series of public „Berlin Dialogues”, in cooperation with academic institutions in Berlin. In 2009, the CES joins forces with the WZB (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung). The two pillars of this partnership are participation of WZB postdocs in the CES fellowship program and visits and lectures of CES/Harvard faculty at the WZB.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 5 - 7 p.m.
¬Peter Hall
Explaining inequalities in health:
Social relations, population health and public policy
Peter Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and faculty member in the department of government at Harvard University.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 5 - 7 p.m.
¬Richard Freeman
Economics of greed
and the US brand of capitalism
Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University.
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Friday, September 11, 2009, 3-5 p.m.
¬ Pippa Norris
> Critical Citizens Revisited
Pippa Norris is McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 5 - 7 p.m. (Achtung: Diese Veranstaltung muss leider ausfallen)
¬Daniel Ziblatt
What do we know about democratization?
Lessons from history
¬Daniel Ziblatt is associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University.


The WZB provides for child care during the lectures. Please register two weeks prior to the lecture specifying the number of children and their age to
Marie Unger: ces-wzb@wzb.eu .

Venue: WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum A 300