Center for European Studies at Harvard University

10/12/2026

Are you a Harvard College student looking to sharpen your skills? Apply to work with one of our Visiting Scholars from on the development and resilience of in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Starts ASAP & pays $22/hr.

Details: https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunities/undergraduates/research-assistantships

10/10/2026

Join our JFK Memorial Policy Fellow at the @ 2:30 pm today and check out what other events we have lined up for the rest of October!

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events

10/09/2026

CES Resident Faculty Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s "The Age of Revolutions" is now available in French 🇫🇷 Spanning 3 continents, the book offers a history of the revolutionary era that shaped the modern world and the inequalities that emerged alongside it.

🔗https://passes-composes.com/book/500

10/07/2026

🔴 TODAY @ 3 pm! Join Cerstin Gammelin, Anna Mayr and Fabio Ellger to discuss the 2026 regional elections & their implications for , the , and international politics.

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/10/germany-regional-elections-2026

10/06/2026

What do the 2026 mean for the future of U.S. ?

In a new article co-authored by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, CES Director Daniel Ziblatt examines the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming and argues that the United States has descended into “soft competitive authoritarianism.”

Read the full article: https://academic.oup.com/psq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/psquar/qqag079/8794751

10/05/2026

We are pleased to announce that Cerstin Gammelin, spokesperson for Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will join CES as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow from October 6–31, 2026.
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/cerstin-gammelin-2

10/05/2026

What are Germany’s regional elections revealing about the country’s changing political landscape?

Join Cerstin Gammelin, Anna Mayr and Fabio Ellger to discuss the 2026 regional elections & their implications for , the EU, and international politics.

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/10/germany-regional-elections-2026

10/02/2026

In a new article for The New York Review of Books, CES Resident Faculty Peter E. Gordon reflects on the life and legacy of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and his enduring principle that, in a modern , the only legitimate force should be the “unforced force of the better argument.”

Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

09/29/2026

Who gets to be an American and what does it take to prove it?

In a new interview with GBH, CES Resident Faculty Nathan Perl-Rosenthal explores the surprising role sailors played in helping early Americans confront fundamental questions about citizenship, nationality, and belonging—and considers how these questions continue to resonate today.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-09-18/sailors-long-before-green-cards-and-civics-tests-heres-what-u-s-naturalization-looked-like

09/24/2026

Meet Friederike Beier, one of our John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellows & Visiting Scholars from Freie Universität Berlin. Join them for a seminar on "Politics of Speed: Masculinist Temporalities of Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Counterstrategies."

🗓️ September 30
⏰ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
📍Hoffmann Room @ CES

🔗 https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/09/politics-of-speed-masculinist-temporalities-of-authoritarian-politics-and-democratic-counterstrategies