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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...

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 2022-23 academic year. Awards are earmarked for faculty at community colleges (CCs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) in Illinois or surrounding Midwestern states.

The European Union Center would like to congratulate Raquel Castro Goebel (Director of the Portuguese Language Program and Portuguese Instructor), Dr Florencia Henshaw (Director of Advanced Spanish and Interim Director of the Foreign Language Teacher...

EU Center Director Emanuel Rota recently interviewed Jonah D. Levy, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California - Berkeley on his takeaways from the results of the first round of the 2022 French presidential elections and what we may expect from the second round on April 24.

The European Union Center leadership wants to express its gratitude to Barbara Hancin-Bhatt and Carol Leff, two members of our Executive Committee who have announced their retirement from our university.

The University of Illinois team won the third place award at the Midwest Model EU at Indiana University representing Greece this weekend. Illinois students also received several individual awards.

The European Union Center is proud to announce the 2022 Schuman Challenge team from the University of Illinois. On April 6-8, the team will travel to the Delegation of the European Union to the United States in Washington DC to compete in the EU’s annual foreign policy ...

The intensity of Ukrainian popular resistance to the Russian invasion and their support of the Zelenskyy government continue to stymy the Russian invasion and impress the global community. Yet, the strength of this "rally round the flag" effect must not obscure areas marked dissatisfaction before the war, like healthcare. How do pre-existing healthcare issues amplify the effects of the continued...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed an application for Ukraine to join the European Union. Citing Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky has requested immediate accession into the EU under a special procedure, Reuters reported on February 28. 

The EU Center and International and Area Studies Library at the University of Illinois are very pleased to open a physical and virtual book exhibit on populism and gender in comparative perspective.

The European Union Center at the University of Illinois invites participation in its 12th Illinois EU Studies Conference, scheduled to take place during the afternoons of Wednesday, April 20 through Friday, April 22. We particularly encourage proposals that might speak to the theme of this year’s conference: “Sustainable Europe.”  This theme can be...

The European Union Center invites University of Illinois faculty to submit proposals for registration fees for conference presentations or for workshops that offer training directly relevant to their teaching and research at the university.