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The Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is excited to announce the 2021 International Studies Research Lab (ISRL), an initiative that promotes the internationalization of community colleges nationwide.

The EU Center is issuing a call for professional development grants of up to $500. We invite 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. The deadline to apply is February 5, 2021.

The European Union Center at the University of Illinois is excited to announce a call for nominations for the Larry Neal Prize for Excellence in EU Scholarship. Nominations are due by January 1, 2021.

The European Union Center extends big congratulations to Eda Derhemi, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian and EU Center affiliate faculty, and Francesco Ferrari, PhD candidate in Italian, who recently received a literary translation award from the Albanian Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Books and Reading for “Miele sul coltello” (Besa Editrice, 2020), an Italian...

LAS International Programs and the European Union Center are looking to fill a 25% graduate assistantship for the spring 2021 semester (renewable).

In December, the European Union Center will be offering three virtual information sessions for university students of all levels interested in learning more about student funding opportunities, our MA in EU Studies (MAEUS) program, our graduate minor, and other student programs.

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is sending a team of three students — Angitha Bright (Philosophy, Political Science), Hannah Buzil (Political Science, Statistics), and Alicja Szczepkowska (Global Studies, Sociology) — to compete in the Schuman Challenge this year. The team will present and defend a transatlantic policy initiative before a panel of judges with expertise in...

Emanuel Rota, Director of the European Union Center, recently conducted an interview with Mary Kavanagh, Minister-Counselor of Research & Innovation at the EU Delegation to the U.S., on the EU's role in research, EU-U.S. scientific collaborations, and funding opportunities through the EU that are available to scholars and researchers from around the world.

EUC faculty affiliate Eric Calderwood, Associate Professor of Comparative & World Literature, was recently interviewed on the podcast Eclectic Intellection, which devoted an episode to Dr. Calderwood's book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture.

The European Union Center announces a new interdisciplinary reading group, open to faculty, students, and the general public, aimed at interrogating issues surrounding race and the Mediterranean.

Current MAEUS student Nicholas Zalewski has been chosen to serve on the U-C Senate’s committee on admissions and as a graduate senator for Illinois Student Government (ISG).

The EUC is excited to announce that 2020 MAEUS graduate Allison Wheeler will be joining the inaugural class of the Illini Science Policy Fellows. 

The European Union Center is proud to announce this year’s graduates of the Master of Arts in European Union Studies (MAEUS) program, as well as recipients of this summer's Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. 

Our Academic Programs Coordinator, Lucas Henry, will be hosting info sessions on Thursday, May 7 at 11am and Friday, May 8 at 2pm concerning various academic programs at the European Union Center.  He will be discussing our MA in European Union Studies (MAEUS), the 5th-year BA/MA program for currently enrolled U of I undergraduates, the Graduate Minor in EU Studies for current and...

In this lecture, Judith Pintar, Teaching Associate Professor of Information Sciences, will discuss the online transformation of her Global Informatics Seminar: “Narrative AI, Media Manipulation and Election Interference” (developed with the support of the European Union Center and the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center). The course was intended to be an active learning course...