The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
Europe in Turmoil
The 31st Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 17-21, 2016
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Wednesday, February 17
European and Global Challenges: How "Perfect" is the "Storm”: An Address by the European Union Ambassador to the United Nations
Cabot 206, 12:00pm
Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in New York; previously served as the first EU Ambassador to the United States of America, from 2010 to 2014
Cultural Evening
Cohen Auditorium, 7:00pm
Poetry by Czeslaw Milocz
Read by Paulina Jedrzejowski
Beethoven and the Future of Europe
George Mathew, Founder and Artistic Director, Music for Life International
John McDonald, Chair and Professor of Music, Tufts University
Roma Music
Tomáš Kačo, Musician, Roma Music
Photography – Former Yugoslavia and Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Ron Haviv, Photojournalist; Co-Founder, VII Photo Agency
Gary Knight, Photojournalist; Co-Founder, VII Photo Agency; Founding Director, Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Ladino Music
Sarah Aroeste, Singer/Songwriter, Ladino Music
RAI Music
Anwar Maghreb, World Music Artist, with an emphasis on RAI Music
Thursday, February 18
The End of History? The Changing Nature of European Identity
Cabot Auditorium, 7:00-9:30pm
Mario de Caro, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Jocelyne Cesari, Author, Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Islam in Western Liberal Democracies
Ioannis Evrigenis, Professor of Political Theory, Tufts University
Andreas Follesdal, Co-director, MultiRights, on the Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary, European Research Council
Thomas Geisel, Mayor, Dusseldorf, Germany
Friday, February 19
Transatlantic Power Dynamics and the Russian Question
Cabot Auditorium, 12:30-2:30pm
William Hill, Professor, U.S. National War College; Author, No Place for Russia (forthcoming)
Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations,
Endicott College
Mitchell Orenstein, Professor of Central and East European Politics, University of Pennsylvania
Carol R. Saivetz, Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Oxana Shevel, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Author, Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe
Ambassador Friedrich Tanner, Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the OSCE
Europe and the Migration Crisis
Cabot Auditorium, 2:30-4:30pm
Kavita Brahmbhatt, Co-founder and Director of Action Emploi Réfugiés
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Author, Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe: How Does It Feel To Be a Threat?
Markella Papadouli, Legal Project Manager, managing EU Roma Rights in Action and Early Legal Intervention projects, The AIRE Centre
Mathias Risse, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Curt Rhodes, Founder and International Director, Questscope
Paula Schwarz, Founder, startupboat, which mobilizes tech, business and social innovators to create solutions that change the frontline of migration
Welcome and Keynote Address in honor of Professor Stanley Hoffmann
Cabot Auditorium, 6:30-8:00pm
Welcome, Introduction and Presentation of Awards, 6:30pm
Welcome by Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University
Keynote Address: E-Europeans: Empathy, Emigration and E-Demoi-cracy, 7:00pm
Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for International Studies, University of Oxford
Including the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award to
Sir David Julian Richards, General The Lord Richards of Herstmonceux GCB, CBE, DSO, DL, former Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces; former Military Strategic Adviser, British Government; former Member, National Security Council, UK
And the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Diplomacy Award to
Hasan Nuhanović, Survivor, Srebrenica; former Translator, Dutch Peace Keeping Forces, Srebrenica.
The Future of Europe
Cabot Auditorium, 8:00-10:00pm
Péter Balázs, former Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the European Union, Hungary
Karl Kaiser, Former Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and Adviser to German Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt
Uwe Kitzinger CBE, the first British Economist of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; former Cabinet Adviser to Sir Christopher Soames, the first British vice president, European Commission
Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for International Studies, University of Oxford
Gwythian Prins, Visiting Research Professor, University of Buckingham; Member, Strategy Advisory Panel, Chief of the Defence Staff, United Kingdom
Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President, Programs, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Interlocutor
R. Bruce Hitchner, Chairman, Dayton Peace Accords Project; Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program, Tufts University
Saturday, February 20
Integrating the “Other”
Cabot Auditorium, 9:30-11:30pm
Fouad Ben Ahmed, liaison between residents, especially youth, and the local government in Département 93, Bondy, Paris; featured in The New Yorker Article, "Life in the Paris Banlieues," by George Packer
Benedetta Giovanola, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Macerata, Italy
Montserrat Guibernau, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London; Author, Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies
Margareta Matache, former Executive Director, Romani CRISS, a leading Roma NGO
Srdja Popovic, Co-founder and key organizer, Otpor!, the Serbian nonviolent resistance group; Co-founder, CANVAS
Sylo Taraku, Secretary-General, Equality, Integration and Diversity (LIM), Oslo, Norway
Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
Multiple Rooms, 11:30am-1:00pm
Click here for a list of the topics and breakout leaders
Europe’s Dividing Lines
Cabot Auditorium, 2:30-4:30pm
Dimitar Hristov Bechev, Director of the European Policy Institute
Sheri E. Berman, Author, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
Elizabeth Prodromou, former Vice Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Sebastian Royo, Vice Provost and Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Co-Chair, Study Group, A Center-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe, Center for European Studies
Xiang Zuotao, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University
Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
Multiple Rooms, 4:30-6:30pm
Click here for a list of the topics and breakout leaders
Islam in Europe
Cabot Auditorium, 8:00pm
John Bowen, Co-editor, European States and Their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries
Emran Qureshi, Co-editor, The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy
Elizabeth Prodromou, former Vice Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Assistant Director, Undergraduate Studies in the Study of Religion, Harvard College; Current project focuses on social activism and moral education in a network of Muslim communities and organizations in greater Paris
Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France
Sunday, February 21
Challenges to Foreign Policy Integration
Cabot Auditorium, 1:00-3:00pm
Nadia Arbatova, Head of the Department on European Political Studies at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)
Péter Balázs, former Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the European Union, Hungary
Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Author, The Politics of Crisis in Europe (forthcoming)
Joachim A. Koops, Research Professor for European Foreign and Security Policy, Institute for European Studies, Belgium
Europe in the Global Order
Cabot Auditorium, 3:00-5:00pm
James Cronin, Author, Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World
Peter Droege, General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy and President, Eurosolar
Jolyon Howorth, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics ad personam and Emeritus Professor of European Studies at the University of Bath
Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Co-editor, The Future of the Euro
Maria Yordanova, Director, Law Program, Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria
Saturday, February 20, 11:30am: Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
1. People Power Movements in Contemporary Europe
Srdja Popovic, Co-Founder, CANVAS
Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation
2. Hybrid Warfare
Part 1: Cyber Security, European Privacy and Surveillance
Lucas Kello, Director, Cyber Studies Programme, University of Oxford
Part 2: Hybrid Warfare and Russia
Victoria Barber, Andrew Koch, Kaitlyn Neuberger, MALD Candidates, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
3. Justice, Inclusion and Post-Colonial Legacy: The Intergenerational Divide
Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Oxford (UK)
4. European Conflict Zones and the Balkans
Vlad Lavrov, Regional Editor, Organized Crime, Corruption Reporting Project
Bruce Hitchner, Chairman, Dayton Peace Accords Project
5. Europe and Human Rights -- Part 1: Europe and Human Rights: Foundations and Frameworks,
Mario De Caro: Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy and Visiting Professor, Tufts University
Benedetta Giovanola, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, Political Science Department, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Moderator: Erin Kelly, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University
Co-sponsored by the Tufts Department of Philosophy
6. The European Refugee Crisis
Mark Miller, Emma Smith Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware
Sylo Taraku, Secretary General of LIM-Network, an organization that focuses on migration and integration issues, Norway
7. Crossroads: Ethnic Biases and Policies of Roma Inclusion
Margareta Matache, Roma rights activist from Romania; Houser Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
8. Islam, Free Speech, Hate Speech
John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
9. The Evolving Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture
Ethan Corbin, Director of the Defence and Security Committee, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
10. China and Europe: A New Honeymoon?
Wang Zhanpeng, Vice Dean and Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Kai-Moritz Keller, MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
11. Will Europe Rescue or Condemn the Nation-State? Sovereignty, Security, and Migration in the European Union
Ruxandra Paul, Author, Citizens of the Market: New Forms of International Migration and their Consequences for People, Parties and Political Systems
12. Better Safe Than Sorry? An analysis of contemporary German leadership beyond the headlines
Robert Helbig, PhD Candidate on NATO's global partnerships at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich
Dr. Alexander Görlach, Founder, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The European, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Divinity School
Saturday, February 20, 4:30pm: Expert-led, Small-group Discussions
1. Old Fractures Reemerging: The Politics of Historical Memory and the Challenges of Secession in Spain
Sebastian Royo, Co-Chair, Study Group, A Center-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard
2. The Srebrenica Genocide and its Legacies for Peacekeeping
Hasan Nuhanovic, Bosniak Srebrenica Survivor and former Translator, Dutch Peace Keeping Forces in Srebrenica
Joachim Koops, Co-editor, Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Research Director, World Peace Foundation and Assistant Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
3. Organized Crime and Corruption in Ukraine, Russia and Latvia
Vlad Lavrov, Regional Editor, Organized Crime, Corruption Reporting Project
4. A Creditor's Paradise? The Economic and Political Consequences of Austerity in Europe
Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University
5. Dividing Lines: Political-economic and Religio-cultural Challenges to Europe’s Future
Sheri Berman, Author, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
Elizabeth Prodromou, former Vice Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012)
6. Europe and Human Rights -- Part 2: Current Policies and Challenges
Andreas Follesdal, Professor of Political Philosophy, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant MultiRights 2011-16, on the Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human rights Judiciary; and Co-Director of PluriCourts, a Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order
Mathias Risse, Professor of Public Policy and Government, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Maria Yordanova: Director, Law Program, Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria. The CSD is an interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economy
Moderator: Erin Kelly, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University
Co-sponsored by the Tufts Department of Philosophy
7. The EU Security Architecture and Russia
William Hill, National War College; retired foreign service officer and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union, east-west relations, and European multilateral diplomacy
8. Transnational aspects of human trafficking and the need to cooperate across borders
Ieke de Vries, PhD Student Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University; former Researcher, Dutch Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, The Netherlands
9. Perceptions on Europe in the World: Climate and Environmental Responsibility
Peter Droege, General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy and President of Eurosolar, Europe’s largest independent renewable energy association