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An earlier changing climate
Humans living at the end of the last ice age endured their own version of climate change, one where a harsh, bitterly cold Europe gradually warmed to become the forested continent that exists today....
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CES awards travel grants for 2010-11
The Center for European Studies (CES) recently announced its 2010-11 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic,...
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The Center for European Studies has announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social,...
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Finding the genetic trail
Harvard Medical School researchers have used a new DNA analysis technique to track when and how much gene flow occurred from sub-Saharan Africa into populations in Europe and the Middle East,...
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The West, plagued by self-doubt
Niall Ferguson is a little concerned these days. The feeling started years ago, during one of his stints leading a course in Western civilization. “Each time I taught it, I felt I was getting closer...
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Fostering global understanding
Following months of upheaval marked by revolutions, the Middle East and the West find themselves at a rare crossroads. The opportunity now exists for the two regions to build bridges that can foster...
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The Center for European Studies (CES) recently announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic,...
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Citizen of the world
This is the last of four reports echoing key themes of The Harvard Campaign, examining what the University is accomplishing in those areas. Scholars who study the last financial crisis and others who...
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Annals of climate
Suppose you want to track climate over the past century. That’s easy enough to accomplish with existing records — but what if you want to go back 500 years? What about 1,000 years? What if you want to...
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History as mosh pit
Humanity’s descent is looking less like the linear succession it’s often thought to be and more like something resembling an ancient mosh pit. The last decade’s revolution in our ability to read...
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Deeper crisis
Before Nov. 20, European reaction to the massive flight of refugees from civil war in Syria was often described as polarized — on one side, an inclusive attitude focused on dividends through an influx...
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Terror threat on mind of Italian PM
In the first visit of a sitting Italian prime minister to Harvard, Matteo Renzi — who became Italy’s leader in February 2014 — addressed recent acts of terrorism in Europe, declaring, “The attack on...
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Left to their demons
Refugees fleeing war and conflict find shelter but little solace in camps erected to house them, according to Richard Mollica, who heads the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT). Mollica, a...
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Kokkalis Program accepting applications
Harvard’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is accepting applications for a limited number of small grants to support summer internship...
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Greece: Anatomy of a financial crisis
When the former prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, asked Richard Parker to serve as special economic adviser in 2009, Parker couldn’t refuse. A friend of the Papandreou family since the early...
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How (do) Europeans make democracy work?
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) was honored to host an essay contest on Europe with the students in Professor Muriel Rouyer’s class at the Harvard Kennedy School, “Global...
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Equal, but not in our yard: Closed thinking on Roma inclusion in Europe
Equal access to quality education is a fundamental human right and yet it is beyond the reach of thousands of Roma children living in Europe today. Over 90% of European youths enroll in secondary...
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Roma in Europe face prejudice, exclusion, hate crimes
The Roma in Europe are increasingly subject to racism, social exclusion, trafficking, and violence, in spite of efforts by European Union institutions to uphold Roma human rights, according to a new...
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CES receives gift to establish the Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey
Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) today announced a gift by the family of Hüsnü Özyeğin, a leading Turkish entrepreneur, highly esteemed philanthropist, and HBS...
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Confronting the refugee crisis
Third in an occasional series on Harvard’s wide-ranging programs, research, and involvement in Europe. BERLIN — One minute, Donia Mehu was standing in her kitchen, cooking and puttering. The next she...
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