Wolfgang Streeck, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, will speak on “This Time Is Serious: Capitalism on the Brink ,” on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at 4:30 p.m., in 219 Aaron Burr Hall at Princeton University. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and the European Union Program.