The Failed Accession of Turkey to the European Union and the Migrant Crisis
When:
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 4:00p -
5:30p
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 4:00p -
5:30p
Where:
MIT E40, 496 Pye Room
1 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://calendar.mit.edu/event/TurkeyEUMigrantCrisis
Part of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration with guest speaker Mario Zucconi
About the speaker:
Mario Zucconi, Princeton Faculty, Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Mario Zucconi studied at the universities of Perugia and Palermo, Italy. In 1968-1970 was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University with a Harkness Fellowship. He then taught or was a guest/research fellow, among other places, at Naples University, Urbino University, Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (Bologna Center), NATO Defense College, Columbia University, University of Maryland (College Park), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He taught (as visiting professor and later lecturer) at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs first in 1987 and then regularly from 2003-04 to 2017-18. He led research projects for the Italian Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs and was, on several occasions, expert witness at hearings of the European Parliament and at UN’s consultations. His research has focused on transatlantic relations, East-West relations, the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East and, most recently, on democratic transition.
Free and open to the public | Refreshments will be served
Sponsored by the Inter-University Committee on International Migration
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The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
Since its establishment in 1974, the Inter-University Committee on International Migration has been a focal point for migration and refugee studies at member institutions, which include Boston University, Brandeis University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. The committee is chaired by MIT as a program of the Center for International Studies (CIS).
Migration Seminar Series
During each academic year, the Committee sponsors a seminar series on international migration, The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration, held at MIT's Center for International Studies. The seminars explore factors affecting international population movements and their impact upon sending and receiving countries and relations among them.
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