Elliott Experts Weigh In: The European Response to the Coronavirus (Online)

Location

This event is open to all GW community members for virtual participation via WebEx. Details for joining the event by computer or phone will be sent the day before the event. Please be mindful of the Time Zone of the presentation (EDT).

Online registration for this event has now closed. To join the event at 1:30 pm EDT, please use this link. If prompted, the event password is "elliott".

Event Description

In the first virtual event of the Elliott School's Experts Weigh In Series, Professors Hope M. Harrison and Kimberly Morgan, will discuss the European response to the coronavirus, providing a perspective on regional responses including those of Germany, France, the UK, and others in the EU. They will use a wide lens to analyze domestic and regional factors that have bolstered or hampered the response, as well as provide their thoughts on how an already changing Europe will emerge from the present crisis.

Dr. Hope M. Harrison is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. She is the recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the Nobel Institute, the American Academy in Berlin, Harvard, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Harrison has served on the staff of the National Security Council as Director for European and Eurasian Affairs (2000-2001) and directed the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs (2005-2009). She is the author of After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019).

Dr. Kimberly Morgan is Director of the European and Eurasian Studies program and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the politics of social policy in the United States and Western Europe, with particular interests in family policies, health care, and immigration. Before joining GWU, Dr. Morgan was a post-doctoral fellow at NYU's Institute of French Studies (2000-01) and a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University (2001-03). In 2008-09, Dr. Morgan was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She recently shared her thoughts on how the coronavirus has exposed the limits of Pan-European Solidarity.