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- Dr. Emanuel Rota, Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, recently authored a White Paper (government or authoritative informational report) on the topic of political trust in the context of the European Green Deal and the 100 Cities Project. This White Paper emerged from a... Read full story New White Paper: Political Trust, the European Green Deal, and the 100 Cities Project
- On April 1, the European Union Center hosted the Midwest preliminary round of the Euro Challenge, an economic policy competition for high school students. Funded by the EU Delegation to the U.S., the Euro Challenge involves teams of 3-5 students giving a 15-minute presentation during which they... Read full story 2025 Euro Challenge Midwest Preliminary Round Results
- On March 10, Prof. George Gasyna traveled to the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago to give a presentation and lead a Q & A session about the 1958 classic film Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament, Dir. Andrzej Wajda). The film screening was part of the... Read full story Prof. Gasyna Speaks about Ashes and Diamonds at the Gene Siskel Film Center

Anna Elizabeth Hunt
Dr. Hunt is an assistant professor in the Germanic department. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My first book is provisionally titled Sites of Grief: Mourning, Politics, Forgiveness. It’s an expansion of my dissertation, “Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin.” Sites of Grief looks beyond Benjamin to study works of art and literature that transform the spectacles of bodies exposed to and by state-sanctioned violence into sites of resistance. These works of art not only...