The European Union Center invites high school students from Illinois to take part in a translation competition featuring six Less Commonly Taught Languages: Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The deadline to send in submissions is Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 11:59 P.M. CST.
- As part of the European Union Center's series of Q&As with experts on current events, EUC Director Emanuel Rota recently conducted an interview with Negar Mortazavi on the role of women and athletes in Iran's political opposition movement, the potential for U.S.-EU solidarity on relations with Iran, policy strategies for helping the opposition while confronting the issue of nuclear...
- The European Union Center welcomes applications for EUC Professional Development Grants to support research travel or to present a paper at an academic conference. We can provide funding of up to $500 for domestic conference travel and up to $1,000 for international conference travel.
- On December 7th, the EU Center will be filming an interview with Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019). While working as the ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch focused on the issue of countering corruption in the country. She was prematurely recalled from her post on former president Trump’s orders. Her testimony was key at Trump’s impeachment hearings back in...
- Aftershocks of the (likely) unintended missile incident in southeast Poland late on November 15 that killed two civilians have continued to reverberate in the media sphere as new information comes to light.
- On Halloween Day 2022, the European Union Center teamed up with the Center for Advanced Study, the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, and the Spurlock Museum for a screening of the classic silent horror film "Nosferatu," directed by F. W. Murnau and released in 1922.
- Do you want to practice speaking a language and meet some new people? Consider joining the Language Conversation Tables on campus!
The European Union Center would like to thank Carol Leff, Associate Professor Emerita of Political Science and long-time colleague and friend, for her generous donation that allows us to set up the Comenius EU Center Student Support Fund.- The EU Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host political scientist and author Ivan Krastev for a lecture on how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is reshaping the political imagination of Europe by replacing the Cold War narrative of the past decades.
- Click to read the Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
The European Union Center warmly welcomes visiting scholars José Luis Gómez- Barroso and Matteo Pasetti. Dr. Gómez-Barroso will be affiliated with the EU Center as a Fulbright-Schuman scholar for the 2022-23 academic year. He will be working primarily on the topic of public economics in the EU but will also be helping with organizing EU Center conferences and events. Dr. Pasetti will be at the EU...- The European Union Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Markian Dobczansky has joined the center as its new Associate Director. Dr. Dobczansky teaches classes in European Studies and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MAEUS program. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He received a...
- It is a pleasure to welcome you back to campus for another academic year. The last few months were full of events that touched our community directly or indirectly. I would like to mention two. The first, a positive development, is the financial recognition that the EUC has received from the European Union (the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence grant) and the U.S. Department of Education (the...
- It is with profound sadness that we share the news that our beloved colleague and friend Dara Goldman passed away last Friday, May 13, 2022. Dara was an Associate Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Program for Jewish Culture and Society. She was also a faculty affiliate of the EUC and a close personal friend of EUC Director Emanuel Rota and his family. A brilliant scholar and...
- Emmanuel Macron has been re-elected to a second term, having won the second round of the French presidential election on April 24 with 58.5 percent of the vote, besting Marine Le Pen, who received 41.5 percent. In the interview below with EU Center Director Emanuel Rota, Emiliano Grossman, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, provides an analysis of the election results...