2026-06-03 - The European Union Center participated in the inaugural TANDEM Dialogue at the University of Victoria on May 14, 2026. EUC Director Emanuel Rota and Associate Director Havva Karakas Keles represented the Center in thought-provoking discussions on two central issues on the EU-North America agenda....- 2026-06-03 - The European Union Center congratulates EUC affiliates at large, José Luis Gómez-Barroso and Raquel Marbán-Flores, and their co-authors, A. Rodríguez-Sánchez and C. Miragaya-Casillas, on the publication of their new article, "Delineating the Profile of the...
2026-05-18 - On Thursday, May 7, 2026, the European Union Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign celebrated EU Day with a timely and thought-provoking roundtable discussion titled Transatlantic Relations in Today’s World. The event was held at the Levis Faculty Center and brought...- 2026-05-11 - On April 30 and May 1, the European Union Center hosted the two-day workshop The Body in Extremis: Fascism, Health, and the Autoimmune State at the Levis Faculty Center. The event brought together scholars working across fascism studies, biopolitics, race, medicine, environmental politics...
- 2026-05-10 - On April 8, the European Union Center marked International Roma Day with a screening of the award-winning documentary Missed Lives: The Dom People at the Levis Faculty Center.The film follows the Dom community of Hatay, one of Turkey's most marginalized communities, whose long-standing...
- 2026-04-18 - On April 16, the European Union Center hosted the DOLCE Symposium, Cities and Economic Democracy: Experiments in Comparative Perspective, at the Levis Faculty Center. The event brought together scholars from across the United States and Europe to examine the role of cities as sites of...
- 2025-12-08 - Lauren Turk, a graduate of our Master of Arts in European Union Studies (MAEUS) program, has been selected as the Winter 2025 Convocation speaker for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She will address graduating students at the LAS Winter...
- 2025-11-17 - Please see below for a list of language courses and area studies courses with EU/European Studies content that will be offered in Spring 2026. These lists are meant to be comprehensive but not exhaustive. If you are teaching a course that you think should be included, please contact...
2025-08-07 - The European Union Center (EUC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was awarded its fourth Jean Monnet Center of Excellence grant under the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission, for the period of 2025 to 2028. The project supported by this grant, “Democratic Opportunities,...- 2025-06-09 - Please see below for lists of language courses and area studies courses with EU/European Studies content that will be offered in fall 2025. These lists are meant to be comprehensive but not exhaustive. If you are teaching a course that you think should be included, please contact...
- 2025-06-04 - The European Union Center congratulates Jessica Greenberg (Professor of Anthropology and EUC Acting Director) and Ariana Traill (Professor of Classics and EUC affiliate faculty) on being named LAS Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholars for the 2025-2026 academic year. The LAS Dean’s...
- 2025-05-19 - The European Union Center is pleased to announce that Havva Karakas Keles has joined the Center as its new Associate Director. Before joining the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Havva was the Assistant Director of the International Relations Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and...
- 2025-04-23 - 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...
- 2025-04-10 - 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...
2025-03-17 - 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...