- 2023-11-27 - The European Union Center is excited to announce the results of the 2023-24 Illinois High School Translation Competition. Fifty students from 30 schools in Illinois participated in the competition and translated an advanced-level text from Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Swedish, or Ukrainian into...
- 2023-11-17 - Application Deadline: January 15, 2024 The European Union Center welcomes applications for EUC Professional Development Grants to support conference or workshop travel. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty may submit proposals related to conference presentations or...
- 2023-11-16 - The European Union Center is now accepting applications for Summer 2024 and Academic-Year Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. Undergraduate students can apply here, and graduate students can apply...
- We are pleased to announce that Amanda Smith has joined the EU Center as its new Academic Coordinator. Amanda is completing a Ph.D. in French Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois and works on Black feminisms and Blackness in popular culture in France and in the Francophone...
- The Illinois High School Translation Competition is back for 2023-24! If you're a high school student who knows Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Swedish, or Ukrainian, we encourage you to participate in this competition for the chance to win a prize and a certificate.
- As the EU Center embarks on a year of transition and reinvention, Associate Director Markian Dobczansky would like to take this moment to greet all of you and share some important news.
Are you interested in learning a new language or practicing your skills in a language? If so, please check out the following Language Conversation Tables on campus! Arabic: The Arabic Program organizes various events such as but not limited to conversations, tutoring sessions...- Congratulations to the students who received Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the Academic Year 2023-2024! We wish you all a productive and rewarding year of language study! Graduate Students Mearieta Clemente (Italian) – European Union Studies...
- The European Union Center (EUC) is searching for an Academic Coordinator. This position will provide specialized intellectual instruction to the students in the Master's program in European Union Studies and coordinate the European Union Center's academic programs, including the M.A. in European...
- Congratulations to the students who received Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for summer 2023! We wish you all a productive and rewarding summer of language study.
- Check out our latest LibGuide on sustainability and Europe, providing resources for researchers studying the ties between sustainability and agriculture, art, business, feminism, migration, and more.
- On June 16-17, the European Union Center will co-host a workshop in Pavia, Italy to discuss the current U.S.-centric hegemonic paradigm of racialization in light of alternative spaces and temporalities. We invite you to visit the newly-launched project website and to reach out to us if...
- The European Union Center is seeking applications for two research assistants with interest in research, outreach activities, and academic development. The deadline to apply is Monday, May 8 at 12 P.M. CDT.
- The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago announces the U.S. Tour of Inferno 1911, which will come to Urbana on Sunday, May 7. Don't miss this screening of the groundbreaking 1911 silent film L’Inferno, accompanied live by Stefano Maccagno (piano) and Furio Di Castri (double bass).
- Please join us in Coble Hall 306 on April 13-14 for the 13th Annual EU Studies Conference: "Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion within and without Europe."