I had the opportunity recently, in lieu of a scheduled visit to Vienna, to record a video presentation for the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue on new book, Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone, in which I examine the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010.

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, I presented a talk via Zoom entitled, “Legitimacy in a time of Covid: Lessons from the Eurozone Crisis” for the Schuman Center at the European University Institute’s seminar series on Covid 19.

On Tuesday, May 26, I was a speaker, along with Adam S. Posen and Jeffry Frieden, at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies webinar “Corona-Crisis: Views from across the Atlantic” on the economic impact of the crisis and policy developments in the US and Europe.

On Wednesday, April 29, I served as moderator for the Zoom videoconference: “The Varied Responses of EU Institutional Actors to the COVID Crisis.”

On Tuesday, April 28, I gave a presentation for the Zoom video-teleconference “Social Movements and Political Mobilisation in Times of Global Pandemic,” organized by the Copenhagen Center for Political Mobilization and Social Movement Studies (CoMMonS) at the University of Copenhagen.

On Friday, October 25, I was at Middlebury College in Vermont, for the annual International Political Economy symposium on “The Euro at 20: Past, Present, and Future.”

On Wednesday Oct 23, I was the featured speaker for a webinar of the RECONNECT Horizon 2020 project. 

On Monday, October 22, I took part in a European Economic Policy Forum event at Harvard's Center for European Studies entitled “Europe’s Travails: Forging a French-German Response in an Era of Transatlantic Disequilibrium."

I gave a talk last week on “The Rise of Populism” as part of WorldBoston’s Great Decisions series. The series is the largest nonpartisan public education program on international affairs in the world. 

A recap of my summer 2019 activities!

On April 1, 2019, I was Rome where I gave a talk on “The Future of Europe” for the University La Sapienza. 

I was in Copenhagen last week (March 28-29, 2019) to give a presentation on “Politics and Organization in the Eurozone Crisis: Does the Politicization of Organizational Interaction make for more or less legitimacy?” at an inaugural workshop on Rethinking Politics in Organization at the Copenhagen Business School. 

This morning I gave a keynote lecture on “Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone” for the EU Horizon 2020 research network RECONNECT at the Norwegian Embassy’s Norway House in Brussels.