WHAT: "How the US and Europe have been working together since Barak Obama's election?" Presented by Harvard Professor Stanley Hoffmann, followed by a conversation with International Herald Tribune Op-ed Editor Serge Schmemann and finishing with a light cocktail party.
DATE: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
TIME: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
PLACE: Académie Diplomatique Internationale. 4 avenue Hoche. 75008 Paris
COST: HCF/SCF members € 25; Guests € 35
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Payment or registration will not be accepted at the event. Refunds will not be issued. Dress code: business / business casual |
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Stanley Hoffmann is the Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard, where he has taught since 1955. He has been the Chairman of Harvard's Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 to 1995. Professor Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1928. He lived and studied in France from 1929 to 1955; he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris, from which he graduated, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
At Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, post-World War Two European history, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, and the development of the modern state. Among his publications, Decline or Renewal? France Since the 30's (1974); Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War (1978); Duties Beyond Borders (1981); Janus and Minerva (1986); The European Sisyphus (1995); The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (1997); World Disorders (1998); and Gulliver Unbound (2004). He is co-author of The Mitterrand Experiment (1987); The New European Community (1991); and After the Cold War (1993). His Tanner lectures of 1993, on the French nation and nationalism, were published in 1994. He is working on a book on ethics and international affairs. |
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Serge Schmemann is a 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner in international reporting for coverage of the reunification of Germany, became editorial page editor for the International Herald Tribune in May 2003. Since March 2001 Mr. Schmemann had been a senior foreign affairs writer based in New York and writer for the United Nations bureau covering regular news analyses, news articles and takeouts on major international issues.
Previously Mr. Schmemann served as deputy foreign editor at The New York Times since August 1999 after having served as a reporter on the metropolitan desk since September 1998. Before that he served as Jerusalem bureau chief from July 1995 until September 1998 and as the Moscow bureau chief from March 1992 until February 1994, after having returned to Moscow as a correspondent in January 1991. Prior to that, he served as bureau chief in Bonn since May 1987 and as a foreign correspondent in Moscow from April 1981 until May 1987. Mr. Schmemann joined The Times as a metropolitan reporter in December 1980. Mr. Schmemann was educated at The Kent School in Connecticut. He received a B.A. degree in English from Harvard University in 1967 and an M.A. degree in Slavic studies from Columbia University in 1971. |
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