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Lecture and discussion on "Immigration and the Idea of Europe"

Lionel K. McPherson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. His research interests include normativity, the basis and extent of obligations, war and terrorism, and race. Between philosophy schoolings, he worked at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and wrote arts criticism. His publications include "Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity" (with Tommie Shelby, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2004), "Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong?" (Ethics, 2007), and "Normativity and the Rejection of Rationalism" (The Journal of Philosophy, 2007).

Mario De Caro teaches Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. Since 2000 he has also been teaching at Tufts University. He received his first degree and his PhD in Philosophy at University of Rome "La Sapienza". He spent two years at MIT as a Visiting Graduate Student and one at Harvard University as a Fulbright Fellow. He is Associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, forthcoming for Cambridge UP in 2015 and a member of the editorial and scientific boards of several international journals. He is Vice President of the Consulta Filosofica Italiana, a former President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, and a member of the American Philosophical Association on whose Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement he served 2009-2013.

Richard H. Shultz is Professor of International Politics and Director of the International Security Studies Program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has held three chairs: Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security, U.S. Military Academy; Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow, Naval War College; and Brigadier General Oppenheimer Chair of War-fighting Strategy, U.S. Marine Corps. Since the mid-1980s, he has served as a security consultant to various U.S. government agencies concerned with national security. He will publish this academic year a new book on the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2004-2008 counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq titled, The Marines Take Anbar: The Four-Year Fight to Defeat al Qaeda in Iraq. He has recently initiated a new research project with Dr. Querine Hanlon of United States Institute of Peace that will focus on designing a new U.S. approach to Security Sector Reform that draws on existing theory and international practice, as well as U.S. experience, to identify flexible tools for addressing dysfunctional security sectors in fragile states. His most recent book is Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (Columbia University Press, 2006; 2009 Paperback). Recent articles include “A QDR for all Seasons,” Joint Forces Quarterly (September 2010) and “The Sources of Instability in the Twenty-First Century Weak States, Armed Groups, and Irregular Conflict,” Strategic Studies Quarterly (Summer 2011).

Dr. Mai’a K. Davis Cross is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at Northeastern University and an expert on European politics, especially foreign and security policy, epistemic communities, crises, diplomacy, and public diplomacy. She is the author of Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks are Transforming the European Union, which is the 2012 winner of the Best Book Prize from the University Association of Contemporary European Studies, and The European Diplomatic Corps: Diplomats and International Cooperation from Westphalia to Maastricht. She is co-editor (with Jan Melissen) of European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work, and her current single-authored book project is entitled, The Politics of Crisis in Europe. Dr. Cross has also published numerous articles, book chapters, policy briefs, and public commentary on a wide range of issues. She serves on several editorial and advisory boards, and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also been a Fulbright Fellow in European Union Studies and Visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris.

Mark J. Miller is the Emma Smith Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.  He joined the Department in 1978. He specializes in Migration Studies, Comparative Politics, and European Politics. His research focuses on comparative immigration and refugee policies, global migration and migration and security.  His recent publications includeThe Age of Migration, 5th ed.; ‘Land of Immigration’, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 9/Spring 2013; and 'The Diffusion of Norms Concerning Trafficked and Battered Women: The Greek-US Evolution post-1990,' in A. Brysk and A. Choi-Fitzpatrick,eds. Human Trafficking and Human Rights:Rethinking Conemporary Slavery, with G. Wasileski.
Mark Miller was joined by Julia Stewart-David, a Fletcher EU Fellow, and Kelly Greenhill, Associate Professor in the Tufts Political Science Department.

Robert Cross gave a lecture entitled "Europe from 1453." Robert Cross is a lecturer in the History Department of Tufts University working on his forthcoming book, To Counterbalance the World: Britain, Spain & Peace in Early Modern Europe.  He has lectured at a number of universities including Northeastern and Vanderbilt and is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.

Enrico Spolaore's lecture entitled "Monnet’s Chain Reaction and the Future of Europe:Reflections on the Political Economy of European Integration."

Enrico Spolaore is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he is a member of the Political Economy Program. He is also a CESIfo Fellow at the University of Munich and an External Associate at the University of Warwick’s Centrefor Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His main research interests are in political economy, economic growth and development, and international economics. Among his publications are “On the Number and Size of Nations” (with Alberto Alesina, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997), “Economic Integration and Political Disintegration” (with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg, American Economic Review, 2000),“On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility” (with Peter Gottschalk, Review of Economic Studies, 2002), “The Diffusion of Development” (with Romain Wacziarg, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009), “How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?” (with Romain Wacziarg, Journal of Economic Literature, 2013), “What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists” (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013), and several other articles and book chapters. Spolaore’s publications also include the monograph The Size of Nations (with Alberto Alesina, MIT Press, 2003 – paperback edition, 2005), and two edited volumes on Culture and Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, 2014). Before joining the Tufts faculty in 2004, Spolaore held faculty positions at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ohio State University, Boston College, and Brown University. He also worked as a consultant for the Confederation of Italian Industries (Confindustria) and the European Commission. At Tufts he served as Chair of the Economics Department between 2006 and 2012.  Spolaore was born in Italy, and holds Italian and U.S. citizenships.