The European Union Center at the University of Illinois invites proposals for the 13th Illinois EU Studies Conference, scheduled to take place Wednesday, April 12 to Friday, April 14.
- Current and recent University of Illinois graduate and undergraduate students are invited to attend the Illinois Global Institute Career Day on Friday, March 3. Make sure to register by Monday, February 20 at 5:00pm CST to schedule an information interview with a panelist.
- The European Union Center at the University of Illinois is pleased to offer summer funding to support ongoing curricular innovation involving European studies in the 2023-24 academic year. The deadline to apply is May 14.
- The recording of EUC Director Emanuel Rota's guest lecture at University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center, on the topic of race and racism in the early modern period in the Mediterranean region, is now available on YouTube.
- 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...