#  CES: Imagining Europe: Culture, Legitimacy and the EU in Crisis 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 24, 2016** 

 11:30AM - 01:30PM EST 

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 **Adolphus Busch Hall, Goldman Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

As economic and political crises have stretched European social solidarity to the breaking point, McNamara’s new book, "The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union,” offers a way of understanding the foundations of the EU’s political authority. Examining a broad range of EU policy areas, she shows how everyday culture matters, and how the construction of meaning can be a potent power resource for the EU as a innovative political form--albeit one open to contestation and subversion by the very European citizens it calls into being.  
Discussant: [ Jason Beckfield](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/beckfield/index.html) Professor of Sociology, Harvard University[ Kathleen McNamara](https://sfs.georgetown.edu/kathleen-mcnamara) Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service , Georgetown University  
Sponsors: [The European Union Study Group](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/studygroups/european-union/)  
Light lunch will be served before the event in the CES Atrium  
Contact: Peter Verovšek, <verovsek@fas.harvard.edu>

 

 



 

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