In February 2020, the EU Center invited Wolfgang Moessinger, Consul General of Germany in the Midwest, to give the keynote, “The New Cold War: Liberal Democracy vs. Authoritarianism — Why the EU is Today More Important Than Ever Before," for our annual EU Day. In March, we hosted Kacper Dziekan, a PhD Candidate at Adam Mickiewicz University and a 2019-20 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and interviewed Kacper on his work with the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk. Later in the semester, the EU Center organized a virtual lecture series on the plague in European history, moderated a conversation with former U.S. Ambassador to the EU Anthony Gardner, and hosted a lecture by Judith Pintar, Teaching Associate Professor of Information Sciences, on teaching an online course on propaganda, media manipulation, and election interference through role-play. 

 

"The New Cold War: Liberal Democracy vs. Authoritarianism — Why the EU is Today More Important Than Ever" — EU Day 2020 Keynote by Wolfgang Moessinger, Consul General of Germany in the Midwest 

 

Interview with Kacper Dziekan, European Projects Senior Specialist, European Solidarity Centre

 

"The Black Death: What We Know Now" — presented by Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History

 

"Reading Contagion in Boccaccio's Decameron" — presented by Eleonora Stoppino, Associate Professor of Italian

 

"Life After [the Black] Death" — presented by Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History

 

"Plague, Politics, and Napoleonic Propaganda c. 1800" — presented by David O'Brien, Professor of Art History

 

On the Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States: A Conversation with Anthony Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to the EU 2014-17

 

"Trolls at Play: Teaching Propaganda, Media Manipulation, and Election Interference through Role-play (Online)" — presented by Judith Pintar, Teaching Associate Professor of Information Sciences