Event Programming

2019-2020 Annual Event Series

A Century of Transatlantic Exchange: Ideas, People, and Policy

In 2019-2020, when the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University is celebrating the centennial of its founding, the BMW Center is contributing to the endeavor of stocktaking and looking towards future challenges. Europeans and Americans have been allies and antagonists in a century of hot and cold wars. How have they attempted to define themselves against each other, but also to emulate and collaborate with each other? What should we cherish, shuck, or change as we go forward? We have invited historians, political scientists, economists, cultural scholars, and policymakers to campus, to help us assess a century of transatlantic exchange.

Events in the “Century of Transatlantic Exchange” Series:

October 8, 2019:
“Hayek’s Bastards: The Fracturing of Neoliberal Globalism”
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College)

October 24, 2019:
“Militant Democracy in the Atlantic World: Between Foreign Liberation and Domestic Suppression”
Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth College)

October 30, 2019:
“The Artist as Pariah? Thomas Mann and Hannah Arendt on the Question of Statelessness”
David Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)

February 13, 2020:
“Transnational Ideas: The Digital Economy – Innovation and Data Protection”
Ambassador Karen Kornbluh (The German Marshall Fund of the United States)
Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee (Brookings Institution)
Cori Zarek (Georgetown University Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation)

February 21, 2020:
“Learning By Doing: Cities, Regions, and the Transatlantic Exchange of Policy Innovations”
Professor John C. Austin (Director, Michigan Economic Center)
Professor Geraldine Gardner (Executive Director at Centralina Council of Governments)
Dr. Dale Medearis (Senior Environmental Planner, Northern Virginia Regional Commission)

February 24, 2020:
“Transatlantic Economic Relations Past and Future” 
Dr. Paul J.J. Welfens (The University of Wuppertal)

April 16, 2020:
“No longer human? Afrofuturist Interventions in Antiracist Discourse”
Dr. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)