Event Archive | European Union Center

Through this event archive, you will find more information about the European Union Center's past lecture series, symposia, workshops, and conferences. Please see our Signature Events page for information on EU Day, the EU Studies Conference, and the Turkish Studies Symposium.

Fall 2023

	EUC Trivia Night, September 5, 2023
	European Union Center Fall Reception, September 7, 2023
	Study and Destress Event, October 11, 2023
	Towards a European Green Deal, October 17, 2023
	Halloween Open House, October 30, 2023
	Halloween Film Screening, October 31, 2023
	International Music Night, November 8, 2023
	Bringing Student Worlds Together, November 19, 2023

Spring 2023

	Book Talk: "Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin", February 3, 2023.
	Public Attitudes Toward the Use of Nuclear Weapons in Western Countries, February 9, 2023.
	Humanitarian and Medical Challenges of Wartime: The Evacuation of Children Diagnosed with Cancer and Blood Disorders from Ukraine, February 16, 2023.
	Through Dante’s Eyes: The Poetry of the Divine Comedy and Medieval European Art, February 21, 2023.
	Illinois Global Institute Career Day, March 3, 2023
	Holding Putin Accountable for "Crimes Against Peace" (EUC Spring 2023 Brown Bag), March 8, 2023
	Study and Destress with the EU Center, March 23/April 6/April 20/May 4, 2023
	LGBT Rights and Representation: What's the Matter on the Right?, March 30, 2023
	13th Annual Illinois EU Studies Conference: "Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion Within and Without Europe", April 13-14, 2023
	EU Day of Art 2023: Flamenco Workshop and Performance, April 15, 2023
	The Good Boss (El buen patrón): Film screening, April 20, 2023
	"L'Inferno" (1911): Jazz Concert and Film Screening, May 7, 2023

Fall 2022

	European Union Center Fall Reception, September 15, 2022.
	The Long War on Drugs and Its Global Failure: What Can History Teach Us about Drug Addiction?, September 15, 2022.
	How to Deal with a Bilingual Class (And Not Die Trying), September 24, 2022.
	Russia's War in Ukraine: Reimagining the East-West Divide in Europe, October 4, 2022.
	What Is the European Union For? A Project to Understand Its Role through Public Economics (EUC Fall 2022 Brown Bag Series), October 18, 2022.
	Virtual Coffee Hour with Working Professionals: Genie Melamed, International Admissions Advisor and Former Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, October 21, 2022.
	Where to Begin? Tips and Tools for Integrating Virtual Reality into Your Language Classroom, October 22, 2022.
	Turn Your Passion for Languages into a Career (and Land a Great Fellowship Along the Way), October 25, 2022.
	Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, October 31, 2022.
	War and its Effect on Ukraine-EU Relations: A Brown Bag Conversation, November 9, 2022.
	Study and Destress with the EU Center, December 8-9, 2022.

Spring 2022

	Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US: Building on Lessons and Insights from Global Perspectives Education for Revolutionary Non-Violence, January 25, 2022. What is the Future of the Island of Ireland after Brexit?, February 9, 2022. Untouched Structures: Racism and the Experience of Brazilian Transitional Justice, March 8, 2022. Unfinished Business: Zionism as Racism and Racial Discrimination, April 13, 2022.
	Designing a Gender-Equal City: Perspectives from Vienna, Barcelona, and France, February 1, 2022.
	EUC and Illini Union Board - European Trivia Night (Trivia Tuesday), February 15, 2022.
	Former Members of the European Parliament Conversation Series - Hans-Olaf Henkel, February 16, 2022.
	NGOs at Work in Ukraine: Spotlight on Soleterre, March 10, 2022.
	Former Members of the European Parliament Conversation Series - Dr. Eva Lichtenberger, March 30, 2022.
	Secrets of Spain (iCU Intercultural Dialogue Series), March 30, 2022.
	Discussion/Q&A with a Scholar/Journalist Currently in the Eastern European Region, April 1, 2022.
	Former Members of the European Parliament Conversation Series - Julie Ward, April 13, 2022.
	Fulbright Schuman Program: Research Opportunities for U.S. and EU Citizens, April 19, 2022.
	Former Members of the European Parliament Conversation Series - Stefan Gehrold, April 20, 2022.
	From UIUC to Careers in Foreign Service, Non-Profits, Education, Activism, and Beyond (SLCL, FLAS and MAEUS Alumni Career Panel), April 27, 2022.

Fall 2021

	Solidarity with Afghan Women: Imperial Wars and Feminist Struggles in Afghanistan, September 7, 2021.
	Vikings and White Nationalism (EUC Fall Brown Bag Lecture Series), September 8, 2021.
	European Union Center Fall Reception, September 14, 2021.
	Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US: Building on Lessons and Insights from Global Perspectives The Relevance of Transitional Justice Twenty Years after 9/11, September 30, 2021. Transitional Justice in Latin America: Lessons for the United States?, October 21, 2021. Bones in the Forest: Exhumation and Reburial as Tools to 'Healing the Dead' in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, November 4, 2021. How Might Transitional Justice Lead to Community Restoration?, December 3, 2021.
	Why is Roma Education Still Separate and Unequal? Employing Dis/Crit to Explain the Enduring Overrepresentation of “Gypsies” in Special Education (EUC Fall Brown Bag Lecture Series), October 15, 2021.
	EuroChambana - Speed Language Meet & Greet, October 15, 2021.
	Turn Your Passion for Languages into a Career, October 21, 2021.
	Fall 2021 Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series How Do You Like My Work? Children with Special Needs in Education: Characteristics and Challenges (Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series), October 23, 2021. Teachers' Well-Being and Resilience (Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series), November 13, 2021. Growing Financial Literacy: Global Understanding Through Group Dynamics & Social Interaction (Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series), December 11, 2021.
	The Australian Arms Affair: Assessing the Impact of Competition in Asia for US-European Relations, November 17, 2021.
	20th Annual European Union Day: Keynote Address by Michael Ignatieff, November 18, 2021.
	EU Day of Art: Artemis Danza Presents "Dante Solo Inferno", December 2, 2021.
	Careers in Translation: A Panel Discussion, December 8, 2021.

Spring 2021

	Research Opportunities in Europe: Information Webinar on Grants and Fellowships for Researchers of All Nationalities and Research Fields, January 29, 2021
	Virtual Coffee Hour with Working Professionals: Bergen Bassett, Vice Consul, February 5, 2021
	Vandervelde Downs: Fiction Speckled with European History (EUC Spring Brown Bag Lecture Series), February 5, 2021
	Career Session with Daniel Fried, Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, February 12, 2021
	A Brave New World? Discussing the EU and the U.S. after the Rise of Nativist Populism, COVID, and Brexit with Kostas Kourtikakis, Carol Leff, and Brian Gaines, February 19, 2021
	Case Studies in the Making of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians: A Conversation with Monica Frassoni, February 24, 2021
	19th Annual European Union Day: A Conversation with Swedish Hip-Hop Artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité, February 25, 2021
	19th Annual European Union Day: Keynote Address by Karin Olofsdotter, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, February 26, 2021
	Virtual Coffee Hour with Working Professionals: Allyce Moncton, Design Researcher, March 5, 2021
	19th Annual European Union Day: A Performance of Aeschylus's "The Suppliants" by Out of Chaos Theatre and Post-Performance Panel Discussion, March 5, 2021
	Race, Human Rights, and Populism in Poland: A Symposium, March 9, 2021
	Case Studies in the Making of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians: A Conversation with Astrid Thors, March 10, 2021
	Making European Skin in the Early Modern World, 1450-1750 (EUC Spring Brown Bag Lecture Series), March 12, 2021
	4th Annual Illinois Global Scholar Power of Perspective Summit and Dialogue, March 20, 2021
	Case Studies in the Making of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians: A Conversation with Georgi Pirinski, March 31, 2021
	Virtual Coffee Hour with Working Professionals: Carlo Di Giulio, Head of Sales and Business Development, April 9, 2021
	Case Studies in the Making of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians: A Conversation with Rory Palmer, April 14, 2021
	Fulbright Schuman Program: Research Opportunities for US and EU Citizens, April 14, 2021
	Case Studies in the Making of the European Parliament and Parliamentarians: A Conversation with Eugen Freund, April 28, 2021
	Virtual Coffee Hour with Working Professionals: Jane Bertch, Entrepreneur and Founder of La Cuisine Paris , April 30, 2021
	Using Drawings as Tools for Travelers to Express Transformation (EUC Spring Brown Bag Lecture Series), April 30, 2021
	Restaurant Disclosures of Food Allergens in the Tourism Context: A Croatian Case Study (EUC Spring Brown Bag Lecture Series), May 7, 2021

Fall 2020

	Blackface Disguise at the Court of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1625-1649 (EUC Fall Brown Bag Lecture Series), September 8, 2020
	When States Come Out: Transnational Movements & the Diffusion of LGBTI Rights in Europe, September 15, 2020
	Safer Illinois: A Transatlantic Conversation on Privacy and Technology During an Epidemic, September 25, 2020
	The Success of Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Importance of Trust (EUC Fall Brown Bag Lecture Series), October 2, 2020
	Virtual Coffee with the European Union Center, October 9, 2020
	Fall 2020 Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series Germany's Vocational Education and Training System, October 10, 2020 Heritage Community — Growing Together, November 7, 2020 Fighting Systemic Racism in the U.S. Education System, December 5, 2020
	The New Speed of Politics: Is Gender Equality Accelerating or Shutting Down?, October 16, 2020
	Turn Your Passion for Languages into a Career (and Land a Great Fellowship Along the Way), October 20, 2020
	'Tolerance is the Soul of Europe’: Christendom, Religious (In)Tolerance and the Birth of Europe, October 21, 2020
	Virtual Coffee with the European Union Center, October 22, 2020
	Illinois Global Institute Career Day, October 23, 2020
	2020 U.S. Elections: Where Do We Go From Here? Global and Local Perspectives, November 10, 2020
	The New Speed of Politics: Technology and Sustainability in the EU, November 12, 2020
	Fiction in the Era of Post-Truth (EUC Fall Brown Bag Lecture Series), December 11, 2020

Spring 2020

	Revival of Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa Symposium, February 6, 2020
	Authors' Q & A with Andrew Orta: "Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture", February 7, 2020
	Limited Protection and No Reward: An Overview of Whistleblowing in Germany: Prof. Dr. Carsten Momsen, Free University Berlin: February 13, 2020
	"The Disobedient Muse: Film, Video and Feminist Activism in France, 1970-20, February 15, 2020
	EU Day 2020 EU Day of Art: Jupiter Quartet Performance, February 20, 2020
	EU Day 2020 EU Day of Art \| Poetry Reading with Angie Estes, February 20, 2020
	EU Day 2020 18th Annual EU Day Keynote Address: “The New Cold War: Liberal Democracy vs. Authoritarianism: Why the EU is today more important than ever before” by Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger, February 21, 2020
	The Silent Politics of Transatlantic Networks, Konstantinos Kourtikakis, February 27, 2020
	From the End of History to the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Symposium on Europe, March 4, 2020
	23rd Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival, March 6- April 2, 2020
	Workshop on International Virtual Exchanges and Curriculum Development, March 10, 2020
	Illinois Global Institute Career Day, March 27, 2020
	Lecture Series \| "Living through the Plague: Lessons from Medieval Europe" “The Black Death: What We Know Now", Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History, April 7, 2020
	Lecture Series \| "Living through the Plague: Lessons from Medieval Europe" “Reading Contagion through Boccaccio’s Decameron”, Eleonora Stoppino, Associate Professor of Italian, April 15, 2020
	Conversation with Anthony Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to the EU 2014-17 "On the Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States: A Conversation with Anthony Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to the EU 2014-17", April 20, 2020
	Lecture Series \| "Living through the Plague: Lessons from Medieval Europe" “Life After [the Black] Death”, Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History, April 22, 2020
	Trolls at Play: Teaching Propaganda, Media Manipulation and Election Interference through Role-play (Online!), Presented by Judith Pintar, Teaching Associate Professor of Information Sciences, April 27, 2020
	Lecture Series \| "Living through the Plague: Lessons from Medieval Europe "Plague, Politics, and Napoleonic Propaganda c. 1800", David O'Brien, Professor of Art History, April 29, 2020
	Global Views of COVID-19: Special Session of the Transatlantic Educators Dialogue, May 2, 2020
	Reopening Schools & Universities in the COVID-19 Crisis: What Will It Take?, May 7, 2020

Fall 2019

	Baroness Ruth Deech, Brexit: Implications for Human Welfare, September 16, 2019
	Germany From the Outside, September 20-21, 2019
	EUC Fall Reception, September 27, 2019
	Roundtable-"Celebration of Olga Tokarczuk's Work," October 16, 2019
	Millercomm Lecture Series \| Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Tweets Sent by Elected Representatives, October 17, 2019
	Trump, Ukraine, Impeachment: How Does the World Talk About It?, October 29, 2019
	Research on Migration and Education in Sweden, October 31, 2019
	"Is the European Union driving increasing demands for secession in Scotland and Catalonia?", November 5, 2019
	Dr. Daniel Hershenzon (Literatures, University of Connecticut), "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication and Commerce in Early Modern Spain", November 7, 2019
	Anti-Semitism panel discussion, with Mark Roseman (Indiana University) and Peter Fritzsche (History), November 14th, 2019
	2019 Sapora Symposium, November 14-15, 2019
	Interdisciplinary conference on Refugees, Migrants, Citizens: Political Socialization across Borders, December 6, 2019

Spring 2019

	Conversations on Europe: The Finnish Education Model: What Can We Learn?, January 15, 2019
	Global Trends in Higher Education, January 22, 2019
	CAS Noontime Lecture: "Audible Cosmology: Belfries, Minarets, and the Sounding of Ethnoreligious Sentiment in Post-1000 Bulgaria", January 31, 2019
	Brown Bag Book Presentation and Workshop: "The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo De'Azeglio to Primo Levi", February 4, 2019
	Cultural Heritage for the Future: Can UNESCO’s Convention to Safeguard the World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Succeed?, February 7, 2019
	Conversations on Europe - 40 years of democracy in Spain, February 12, 2019
	REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Agency and Access: The Soviet Performance of British Contemporary Music during the Early Cold War", February 12, 2019
	Women and Gender in Global Perspective: #MeToo and Academia Panel Discussion, February 13, 2019
	2018/19 The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies Events Faculty Seminar: "Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France, February 18, 2019
	Women and Gender in Global Perspective: "Girls Hold up Half the Sky: Neoliberalism Meets Girls and the Media", February 27, 2019
	2018/19 The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies Events 2nd Annual Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Student Conference, March 1, 2019

Fall 2018

	Film Screening - Bergman in Three Acts: A Centennial Series, September 3-17, 2018
	Workers' Movement in Turkey, September 10, 2018
	Conversations on Europe: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: Women in Europe Today, September 13th, 2018
	IPRH Lecture: "Generation Allah: Democratizing Muslim Men and Holocaust Memory in Germany", September 20th, 2018
	REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Brotherlands to Bloodlands: Jews and Ethnic Germans in Southern Ukraine, Pre-Revolution to Postwar", September 25th, 2018
	REEEC Scholars Lecture: Dubravka Ugresic, October 3rd, 2018
	Comparative Literature Lecture: "Looking at Euro-African Legacies Today", October 9th, 2018
	The "Right to the City": A Genealogical Geography of the Sapphic Cabaret, Paris 1930-1960, October 11th, 2018
	EUC Lecture: "The Legacy of Inter-Group Contact on Tolerance: The Case of Ottoman-Turkey", October 18th, 2018
	Second "Dark Matters" Workshop, November 26th, 2018
	Lecture: "The lupine's dark shadow--Invasive species, environmental threats, and the othering of flowers in Sweden", November 27th, 2018
	Lecture: "Staged Nature: Public Aquariums as Institutions of Knowledge and the Problem of Plastic Waste", November 28th, 2018
	REEEC Lecture: "Gifts from Abroad: American Library Association and Post-WWII Reconstruction of Library Collections in Poland and Germany", December 4th, 2018
	EUC Lecture: "From BPA to Chlorinated Chicken: What Are the Driving Forces behind More Stringent Food Regulations in the European Union?", December 6th, 2018