CONFERRING CEREMONY 15 JUNE 2018 - 15.00 Badia Fiesolana, San Domenico di Fiesole
EUI Conferring Ceremony 15 June 2018, 15:00 Entry procession to the church Welcome by Renaud Dehousse, President of the European University Institute Keynote address by Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of the Central European University Awarding of Doctor Honoris Causa degrees Kathleen Thelen Jßrgen Osterhammel Musical interlude, EUI choir Dieu, qu’il la fait bon regarder (Claude Debussy, 1862-1918) Verger (Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963) Awarding of Ph.D. degrees in History and Civilization Awarding of Ph.D. degrees in Economics Awarding of Ph.D. degrees in Law Awarding of Ph.D. degrees in Political and Social Sciences Awarding of LL.M. degrees in Law Awarding of EUI Dissertation Prizes Salute by Ph.D. graduate Andresa Lagerborg, Department of Economics Closure of the ceremony by President Renaud Dehousse
Photo by Daniel Vegel, CEU
Keynote Address Michael Ignatieff Born in Canada, and educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician.
His major publications are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013), and The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World (2017). Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and holds eleven honorary degrees. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is currently the Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest.
Doctor Honoris Causa Kathleen Thelen Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT and President of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Her work focuses on the origins and evolution of politicaleconomic institutions in the rich democracies. Her two most recent books are Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge, 2014), and Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (with James Mahoney, Cambridge 2015). Her awards include the Barrington Moore Book Prize (2015), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSA (2005), the Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research (2006), and the Max Planck Research Award (2003). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009. She has been awarded degrees honoris causa at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (2013) and at the London School of Economics (2017). Professor Thelen has served as Chair of the Council for European Studies (2002-2006) and as President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008-2009). She was also President of the APSA
Section on Comparative Politics (2011-2013) and of the APSA Section on Politics and History (2007-2008). Thelen is General Editor, along with Eric Wibbels, of the Cambridge University Press Series in Comparative Politics, and a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne, Germany. ‘Kathleen Thelen has made a deep and lasting impact on at least four fields of political science research and teaching: comparative politics, political economy, historical-political analysis, and, last but not least, theories of institutional change. She has been at the intellectual forefront of bringing ‘institutions’ into the heart of social science enquiry as resilient variables in explaining political compromise and contestation, policy continuity and change, and comparative economic performance. Her novel, path-shifting theoretical work on evolutionary modes of institutional change departed in important ways from the traditional models that were used for decades, and is now widely employed in explanations of today’s transformations in contemporary economic, social and political life.’ Laudatio to be delivered by Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Doctor Honoris Causa Jürgen Osterhammel Until his retirement in March 2018, Jürgen Osterhammel was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His publications in English include Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Marcus Wiener, 1997), Globalization: A Short History (co-authored with Niels P. Petersson, Princeton University Press, 2005); The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014); Decolonization: A Short History (co-authored with Jan C. Jansen, Princeton University Press, 2017); and Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia (Princeton University Press, 2018). With Akira Iriye, he is the editor of a six-volume History of the World, published by Harvard University Press since 2012. His most recent book in German is Die Flughöhe der Adler: Historische Essays zur globalen Gegenwart (C. H. Beck, 2017). Professor Osterhammel is the recipient of several awards including the Leibniz-Preis (2010) and the Toynbee Prize (2017). In 2017 he was elected a member of the Order Pour le Mérite, the highest distinction for the arts and sciences in Germany.
‘A pioneer in the field of global history, Jürgen Osterhammel’s achievement is to have highlighted the importance of European and East Asian relations to the making of the modern world. In his most famous work, The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2014, original title: Der Verwandlung der Welt, 2009), he insisted that we look beyond national borders and make comparisons across broad geographical spaces in order to capture the complexity of historical processes. Awarded the Toynbee Prize in 2017, he used his acceptance speech further to call on historians to develop ‘a theory of dynamics and motion, of speed, acceleration and retardation, of unilinear and reversible processes, of flows, counter-flows, and the non-flowing.’ Angela Merkel’s favourite historian, Jürgen Osterhammel’s work has won him global recognition and influenced entire generations of scholars.’ Laudatio to be delivered by Lucy Riall, Professor of History of Europe in the World in the Department of History and Civilization.
Graduands 2018
Department of History and Civilization Ph.D. Degrees Dorit Maria Nicola Brixius Brice Cossart Koen Docter Itzea Goicolea-Amiano Annelie Grosse Johannes Kristian Huhtinen Mikkel Munthe Jensen Bruno Kamiński Maria Kavvadia Ivan Obadic Alexandra Kattrin Ortolja-Baird Paschalis Pechlivanis Frank Ejby Poulsen Dieter Reinisch Waltraud Schßtz Sharon Elisheva Turkington
Department of Economics Ph.D. Degrees Brais Alvarez Pereira Anastasia Antsygina Nicolas Aragon Omar Bamieh Kristina Bluwstein Dario Bonciani Antoni-Italo de Moragas SĂĄnchez Gabriel Alejandro Facchini Palma Joanna Franaszek Gabriela Liliana Galassi Ignacio Gonzalez Garcia Robert Goodhead Adam Viktor Jakubik Benedikt Mario Kolb Andresa Lagerborg Francesca Loria Lukas Mayr Krzysztof Pytka Fabian SchĂźtze John Vourdas
Department of Law Ph.D. Degrees Sara Helene Andersen Filipe Brito Bastos Federica Coppola Federico Della Negra Haukur Logi Karlsson Betül Kas Vivian Kube Guillaume Landais Marlène Michèle Losier Frank Mc Namara Sofie Christine Møller Przemysław Pałka Argyri Panezi Zane Rasnača Maria José Schmidt-Kessen Katarzyna Marita Szreder Theodosia Stavroulaki Juha Tuovinen Marinus Jacobus van den Brink Marijn van der Sluis Chien-Huei Wu LL.M. Degrees Sonia Ariza Navarrete Thea Sveen Zeynep Timocin Cantekin
Department of Political and Social Sciences Ph.D. Degrees Francisco Alonso Norma Albert Arcarons Macarena Ares Abalde Lars Erik Berntzen Fabio Bulfone Tiago André Casal da Silva Andrea De Angelis James Dennison João Tiago Do Ó Labareda Nisida Gjoksi Alexi Gugushvili Saara Marika Hämäläinen Anne Christine Holtmann Despoina Karamperidou Anna Kyriazi Liliya Leopold Martin Neil Lestra Nina Elisabet Liljeqvist Ludvig Lundstedt Juan Masullo Jiménez Michal Maciej Matlak Jeroen Gerardus Theresia Moes Didem Oral Irene Palacios Lorenzo Piccoli Julia Rone Niels Selling Alexandre Serot Milla Emilia Vaha Mathilde Maria van Ditmars Katharina Veronika Wolf Tomasz Paweł Woźniakowski Margarita Zavadskaya
2018 Dissertation Prizes James Kaye Memorial Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in History and Visuality This prize has been made possible through the generosity of James Kaye’s family and friends for the best thesis in History and Visuality. James Kaye was a research student of the EUI who passed away in February 2011. This year’s prize is awarded to Cloe Cavero de Carondelet for her thesis Art, Piety and Conflict in Early Modern Spain: The Religious and Artistic Patronage of Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval between Toledo a nd Rome (1599-1618), defended in December 2016. ‘This thesis constitutes an ambitious attempt to mobilise a large number of diverse sources to provide a nuanced in-depth study of Sandoval’s activities and patronage. The originality and scope of the research mean that she developed her own methodology to study the artistic patronage of the Spanish ecclesiastical élite, situating it in a wide political, cultural, religious and artistic context. The conclusions are carefully balanced, taking account of a wide range of factors and in careful dialogue with the existing literature. The visual sources, which are beautifully presented, are analysed seriously and sensitively, in particular the study of Toledo Cathedral. Cloe Cavero de Carondelet’s dissertation corresponds with the underlying questions which shaped James Kaye’s research and in particular how to represent sources of historical data through visual media. Her work stands out for the originality of her approach, the variety and scope of her sources, and the highly intuitive and erudite use which she made of them.’
Linz-Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology The Department of Political and Social Sciences established this prize in honour of two great postwar political sociologists, the late Juan Linz and the late Stein Rokkan. It is awarded annually for the best EUI thesis in political sociology that engages with a theme in the broadly defined fields of Linz’s and Rokkan’s work. The Prize is sponsored by Professor Richard Rose, holder of an Honoris Causa Degree from the EUI and a founding father of postwar political science in Europe. The 2018 winner of the Linz-Rokkan Prize is Juan Masullo Jiménez for his thesis A Theory of Civilian Non-Cooperation with Armed Groups. Civilian Agency and Self-Protection in the Colombian Civil War, defended in October 2017. ‘Juan Masullo’s thesis is a well-designed empirical study, and the rich, rigorous and generous ethnographic methods he employed have allowed him to develop a microanalysis of the dynamics of nonviolent resistence in civil wars. His recognition of the agency of civilian actors, even under risky circumstances, fills a gap in the literature on civil wars, and the theoretical frame of the dissertation bridges that field with social movement studies in an original and useful way, allowing for a rare dialogue between the two. Furthermore, while the empirical evidence he presents is per se fascinating, we commend Juan’s uncommon capacity to theorise upon it, developing innovative ideas on central problems in political science and sociology. Last but not least, the findings have a social relevance in order to address challenges to citizens’ security and human rights. This thesis’ theoretical originality and solid empirical base provide for path-breaking contributions in the field.’
Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law Mauro Cappelletti, whose name is honoured by this prize, was a great scholar of comparative law. He was Professor of Law at the EUI, the University of Florence and Stanford University in California. In 1995 Robert Helm, an alumnus of the EUI and a former student of the late Professor Cappelletti, together with his wife Mimie, generously decided to finance the annual award of a prize for the best doctoral thesis at the EUI in the field of comparative law. The prize has been awarded annually since 2005. The 2018 Mauro Cappelletti Prize is awarded to Zane Rasnača for her thesis First or One among Equals? The CJEU and the Construction of EU Social Policy, defended in September 2017. ‘Zane Rasnača’s thesis provides an exceptionally high level of comparative insights and theories of The Court of Justice of the European Union’s understanding of its own role and relationship with both national and EU lawmakers. The considerable strengths of the thesis are its identification of an important and timely research topic, the clarity of its presentation, the use of a range of methods, most importantly a comparative one, to throw light on the research question, and the clear recommendation it makes for judicial practice. We are convinced that the wide-ranging, stimulating, substantial, innovative and original thesis of Zane Rasnača will make a genuine contribution to the literature on EU social policy and to the European legal studies in general, and even has the potential significantly to shape both scholarship and practice.’
Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Economics This prize was established by the EUI Department of Economics in 2015. It honours Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher who lived and worked in Florence and Fiesole between 1882 and 1892 and is considered one of the pioneers of modern scientific research in economics. The 2018 prize is awarded to Andresa Lagerborg for her thesis Essays in Macroeconomics: Confidence, Business Cycles, and Fertility, defended in June 2018. ‘Between science and poetry stands policy: Andresa Lagergborg’s thesis deals with several important policy issues, and she has developed a dissertation that deals with interdisciplinary concerns. The main chapter of her thesis is a study of the effect of exogenous movements –what Keynes called ‘animal spirits’—on people’s confidence. More specifically, she uses school shootings in different US counties as a natural experiment to study the effects of these tragic events on people’s confidence. Her chapter demonstrates that school shootings generate significant drops in consumer confidence for residents in the county of the shooting, leading to significant short-lived drops in the purchase of durable goods and transitory increases in unemployment. This analysis is extended in another chapter where she demonstrates the impact of mass shooting fatalities on consumer confidence at the US aggregate level. Finally, her last chapter investigates how current economic conditions and expectations about the future outlook of the US economy impact on fertility decisions.’
The EUI Choir Director: Valerio del Piccolo Singers: Valerio Bianchi, tenor Anny Bremner, contralto Gian Luigi Celentani, tenor Bernhard Clemm, bass Agata Czarnecka, soprano Elias Deutscher, bass Laura Downs, soprano Lucia Filacchione, contralto Paola Fioretti, soprano Nicola Fontana, bass Alexa Hupp, contralto Johannes JĂźde, bass Ania Mikhalchuk, contralto Rossella Monaco, contralto Manlio Pillon, bass Giovanni Romano, tenor Katharina von Schnurbein, soprano Nouran Shash, contralto Piccarda Uguccioni, soprano Zoey Verdun, contralto
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