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- Are you interested in learning a new language or practicing your skills in a language? If so, please check out the following language tables on campus! Arabic: September 26th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; October 23rd, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; November 20th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m... Read full story Fall 2024 Language Tables
- The EU Center is pleased to announce that Jessica Greenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been appointed the EUC Acting Director for the 2024-25 academic year. Read full story Jessica Greenberg Appointed 2024-25 EUC Acting Director
- The European Union Center is pleased to share the news that U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture, a project initiated by Aspen Institute Germany in collaboration with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been extended for three years, through 2027. Read full story U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture Project Extended through 2027
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David Cooper
David Cooper is an Associate Professor in and the Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am wrapping up a long-term book project on the Czech forged manuscripts, a series of fake medieval manuscripts that were "discovered" in the second decade of the nineteenth century. They were not just a very successful forgery, fooling experts for 60 years, but also became remarkably important to the Czech national movement at a moment...