Untangling Germany's Election Results
Thursday, February 27, 2025 |Â Gasson 112 | Registration Link TBD
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Schedule and Registration
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | Gasson 112 | Registration Link TBD |
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Speakers
Sonja Kreibich
Sonja Kreibich took up her post as the Consul General of Germany to the New England States in July 2022. Before arriving in Boston, she served at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin as the Head of Division for Pan African Issues, Southern Africa and the Great Lakes from 2018-22. Prior to this, she served as the Head of Unit for European Migration Policy from 2014-2018, and as press spokesperson in the Speaker’s Office from 2002-2006. Sonja’s roles within the Foreign Office have taken her abroad to the German Permanent Mission to the UN in New York as well as to the German Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. She studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn.
Anja von Rosenstiel
Anja von Rosenstiel is a lecturer at the Boston University School of Law, as well as a mediator and practicing attorney both in Boston and in Germany. From 2000-2003, she worked for the German Federal Government’s Ministry for the Environment. In the 2024 US presidential election, she was a volunteer organizer for the Democratic Party of Georgia’s Voter Protection program. She holds degrees from the University of Munich (Staatsexamen), the European University Viadrina (MA), and Boston University School of Law (LLM).
Hannes Kerber
Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College. He earned his doctorate from the University of Munich. During the 2022/2023 academic year, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. In 2024, he served as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia in Italy.
Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence is Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University, a C.E.P. at Sciences Po, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His principal areas of teaching and research are comparative politics and religion and politics in Western Europe, Turkey and North Africa. Prof. Laurence's latest book is Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State (Princeton University Press, 2021). Previously, The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims, was published by Princeton University Press in 2012, and received awards for Best Book in religion and politics and migration and citizenship from the American Political Science Association. His first book, Integrating Islam: Religious and Political Challenges in Contemporary France, co-authored with Justin Vaïsse, was published by Brookings Institution Press (2006) and Odile Jacob (2007) and named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. Prof. Laurence assumed the Directorship of the Clough Center in spring 2022.
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