2024-03-07 - The European Union Center is pleased to share the program for its 14th Illinois EU Studies Conference on April 18-19, 2024. The conference theme is "Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources." This conference is part of a multi-year project that aims to deprovincialize the perspective...
2024-02-29 - The European Union Center is excited to welcome the Italian contemporary dance company Artemis Danza to Champaign-Urbana for this year’s EU Day of Art on Monday, March 18 at 7 P.M. Artemis Danza’s performance of “Corpi Violati,” inspired by stories of gender violence and aimed at highlighting the...
2024-02-09 - The EU Center congratulates members of our community who have been recognized for excellence in teaching and advising by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2024.
2024-01-24 - The European Union Center is excited to announce a screening of the Italian silent film "Tigre Reale" (1916) on Monday, February 26 at 7-8:30 P.M. in Lincoln Hall Theater, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801. The film screening will be accompanied live by two of Italy's leading jazz musicians:...
2023-12-12 - Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Smith (Academic Coordinator, European Union Center), who successfully defended her dissertation, “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality and In/visibility in Black French Women's Body and Hair Representations,” on December 1!- 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.
- 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...