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  Location   Turlington 3310   CES Lunchtime Symposium   Jeremy Frusco, Ph.D. candidate in Music History and Literature   It began as a joke among friends. The André, a cover artist whose identity remains a mystery, recalled in a 2018 interview that “I became aware of trap music and I thought that it was perhaps the furthest possible thing from poetics, and I thought what operation (could be) more dystonic than to put the two together?” While The André…

  Location   Reitz Union North Lawn   Brief Intro   Visit the UF in Brussels and UF in Prague tables at the UF International Center Fall Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, September 25.  

  Location   Oak Hammock   Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe   The Migrant Crisis and the Far-Right in Germany: Causes and Consequences Hannah Alarian UF, Political Science   What did the migrant crisis mean for Germany? This lecture explores this questions from the perspective of migrants, refugees, and German citizens. In doing so, we consider the lasting consequences of the crisis on the future of German politics and policy.  

  Location   Anderson 216   Brief Intro   Christopher J. Williams University of Arkansas at Little Rock   Recent research has shown that mainstream political parties shift their positions on European integration in response to threats from niche parties. Whether or not this strategy affects the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties remains unclear, however. Dr. Williams and Dr. Maurits J. Meijers examine how mainstream political party accommodation of niche party positions on the issue of European integration affects mainstream…

  Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe   Coming Out of Communism: The Emergency of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe Conor O’Dwyer UF, CES & Political Science   Oak Hammock   O’Dwyer analyzes the development and impact of LGBT movements in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. He argues that backlash against LGBT individuals has had the paradoxical effect of encouraging stronger and more organized activism, significantly impacting the social movement landscape of the region.   

  Location   3310 Turlington   Brief Intro   Germany Since 1989: Do Differences Persist After the End of Communism?  

  Location   Plaza of the Americas   Brief Intro   Come join CES at this annual festival from the College of the Arts. CES will have a table with mini language labs, trivia, and a map quiz. We will also have a photo booth with European backdrops and props.  

  Plaza of the Americas   CES Film Festival – Capturing Communism: The Cold War on Film   A CIA agent and KGB operative participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. Check out the trailer.  

  Location   Oak Hammock   Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe – Center for European Studies   Populism on the Rise in Contemporary Germany Marcel Lewandowsky UF, CES visiting DAAD Assistant Professor   Lewandowsky examines how populist movements are dominating political discussions in Germany. How has their rise impacted German politics and the greater European political landscape?  

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offer students the opportunity to pursue language study in a least or lesser commonly taught language.   <div class="p-1"Fellowships are available for summer 2020 and academic year 20-21.   The info session will provide details on the fellowship, eligibility requirements, and application process.  

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Join the Center for European Studies to learn more about the Critical Language Scholarship! The CLS program is a great opportunity to travel abroad and participate in an intensive summer language learning program.   Eligible languages include Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.  Some languages require no previous experience!  

  Location   Plaza of the Americas   CES Film Festival – Capturing Communism: The Cold War on Film   A pulp novelist travels to shadowy postwar Vienna only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend. Check out the trailer.  

  Location   Oak Hammock   Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe   The Sakharov Center was founded in 2017 to promote democracy and pluralism in Russia and Eastern Europe. With the challenges to human rights and democracy in today’s Russia, what role does the center play?  

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Join CES on Wednesday, October 23, 4:00 pm (3310 Turlington Hall) for an info session on funding opportunities available to UF faculty.   Awards include course development, course enhancement, summer travel awards, and Research Tutorial Abroad.

  Location   Oak Hammock   Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe   The Impact of the 2019 European Parliament Elections Asli Baysal UF, CES   The European Union (EU) held elections in May 2019 for the European Parliament, which is the legislative branch of the EU. This presentation will discuss how the elections impact Europe with the rise of far right parties and the challenges facing the EU today.  

  Location   Pugh Hall Ocora   Brief Intro   Chair: Conor O’Dwyer, University of Florida Panelists: Michael Bernhard, University of Florida; Marcel Lewandowsky, University of Florida; Simona Guerra, University of Leicester; Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant: Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences   Contemporary German discourse on the tensions between the former East and West German federal states often refers to the persistence of a so-called ‘wall in the head,’ referring to the continued…

  Location   Pugh Hall Ocora   Brief Intro   Ute Poerschke, The Pennsylvania State Universit   This lecture will provide an insight into the diverse approaches to energy-efficient and climate-change-resilient architecture within the European Union, with a focus on Germany. It will address EU policies and incentives that aim at regulating, promoting, and controlling sustainable architecture, and discusses how these are beneficial to or conflicting with national goals. Support from this speaker comes from the European Commission’s Jean Monet…

  Europe Today: Social and Political Perspectives of a Changing Europe   Debating European Identity: Turkish-German Athletes in FocusEmrah Sahin UF, CES   This presentation is about how Turkish-German soccer players experience and attribute significance to playing for national teams. By focusing on second-generation players such as Mesut Ozil and Nuri Sahin, it offers a prism through which to reconsider important aspects of modern Europe, including ethnicity, identity, and minority.  

  Location   Dauer 215   Brief Intro   Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable   Julia Sonnevend The New School  CES Speaker Series – The Collapse: 1989 Then and No   This talk contemplates how particular events become lasting global myths, while others fade into oblivion. What comes to be known and seen as a global iconic event? Focusing on news coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and on contemporary retellings of the event, Sonnevend discusses how storytellers…

  Location   3310 Turlington   Brief Intro   Bogdan Dumitru, PhD candidate, History  The relationship between land rights and national discourse, while a central element of nation-building in East Central Europe, has been relatively neglected by contemporary historical scholarship on nationalism. Based on the analysis of legal disputes over land ownership and peasant petitions, this talk discusses the relationship between land ownership inequality, land redistribution, and nationalism in interwar Transylvania. It will show that peasants were not simply passive…

  or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb First Magnitude Brewery CES Film Festival – Capturing Communism: The Cold War on Film   An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. Check out the trailer.  

  Location   Keene-Flint 005   Brief Intro   CES Speaker Series – The Collapse: 1989 Then and Now   Panelists: Dirk Philpsen, Duke University Istvan Hegedus, Hungarian Europe Society  Moderator: Alice Freifeld, University of Florid   This panel will explore the firsthand experiences of two scholars who witnessed the momentous events of 1989. Dr. István Hegedüs, who was part of the opposition movement in Hungary during the 1980s, will offer his perspective of the events in Hungary and the…

  Location   3310 Turlington   Conversations on Europe series   With migration across the Mediterranean so much in the news the past few years, a broad public awareness of migration patterns and contemporary domestic and international politics has developed. But migration around the Mediterranean region did not begin in 2015. And this is not the first time one could speak of a “migration crises.” In this session of Conversations on Europe, our panel of experts will take a long…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offer students the opportunity to pursue language study in a least or lesser commonly taught language.   Fellowships are available for summer 2020 and academic year 20-21.   The info session will provide details on the fellowship, eligibility requirements, and application process.  

  Brief Intro   UF Pilot Plant   Join CES and Culinary Arts Student Union (CASU) to learn how to make dishes from the A Taste of Europe Cookbook volume 2.  

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Come join CES to learn more about our programs in Brussels and Prague.   Pizza provided!  

  Location   3310 Turlington   CES Lunchtime Symposium   Richard W. Tate, Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Ecolog   The montane region of South Caucasus is known as a hotspot for biocultural diversity due to the number of sociolinguistic groups and endemic species found there. Peoples of the region are heavily reliant on the local biodiversity for food, medicine, and other uses, forging a sophisticated body of local ecological knowledge. This interdisciplinary research project draws from anthropology, botany, and other…

  Location   Dauer 215   Brief Intro   Doru Banaduc‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu   This presentation will discuss the development and implementation of the Natura 2000 initiative of the European Union (EU). This program is an EU strategy designed, and built as a part of an integrated approach to reconsidering human interaction with the environment with an eye towards long term sustainability. Covering 18% of the European Union’s land and 6% of its marine territory, it is the…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Doru Banaduc‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu   Come hear about opportunities to put your European Studies focus to use in a career in the non-profit sector! Sinan Ciddi will discuss his work as the Executive Director of the Institute for Turkish Studies in Washington, D.C. as well as his academic positions with Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service, and as an incoming faculty member of National Security Studies at…

  Location   Plaza of the Americas   CES Film Festival – Capturing Communism: The Cold War on Film   To protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. Check out the trailer. 

  Location   3310 Turlington   Brief Intro   Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable   Although Poland and Hungary transitioned to democracy nearly 30 years ago, there is now increasing evidence that the actions of their leaders are working to erode democracy in their respective countries. What is motivating this erosion of liberal democracy? What are the implications of these actions for democracy enthuse countries and in the region more generally? What is the role of the European Union in…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable – This month’s Conversation on Europe invites a panel of experts to update us on the continually changing circumstances surrounding Brexit. At the time of the printing of this flyer, the British withdrawal from the EU deadline is scheduled for January 31st, but after so may postponements and delays, it is anyone’s guess whether or not that will happen. Join us for an up-to-the-minute assessment…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Lunchtime Symposium   WWII: Beyond the Battlefields – CES Series Marking the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII  Corinne Matthews, Ph.D. Candidate, English  “I’m determined to show them that the younger boys can fight as men.”   The World War II diary of Julian Kulski is one of few English-language primary accounts of the WWII German occupation of Warsaw. First published in 1979 and re-issued in 2014, this account follows Julian’s experiences…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   Francesco Petricone, Holy Cross University  CES Lunchtime Symposium – This ongoing comparative, cross-national project investigates the use of the Internet and communication apps like Whatsapp by millennials from African and Asian countries. Specifically, we focus on 18-25 years old youth in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Pakistan, who are imagining #@ better life” in Europe after the 2011 Arab Spring. The research is mainly based on a survey in English…

  Location   3310 Turlington Hall   Brief Intro   This month’s session of Conversations on Europe will invite discussion on contested monuments in the U.S. and Europe – some of which have generated lots of public notice, while others may be less familiar. Our panel of experts will consider and compare recent controversies over Confederate and Communist statues, colonial monuments, and memorials to WWII and the Holocaust. What is the role of public art in creating a shared history…

  Location   virtual only   Brief Intro   Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable   Panelists: Jonathan Blake, RAND Katy Hayward, Queen’s University Belfast Jennifer Keating, Carnegie Mellon University Connal Parr, Northumbria University   Moderator: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh   For this month’s Conversation on Europe, we explore borders and contested memory in Northern Ireland. Our panel of experts will explore the conflict over territory and identity in Norther Ireland and how that has played out at the border…

WWII: Beyond the Battlefields - Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II free online film screenin https://ces.ufl.edu/outreach/community/film-screenings/ available from 1/25-2/25/21 A 1945 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. The title refers to Rome being declared an open city after 14 August 1943. The film won several awards at various film festivals, including the most prestigious Cannes Grand Prix and was nominated…

virtual event Mátyás J. Prommer, Ph.D. student, UF School of Natural Resources and Environment Moderator: Richard W. Tate, Ph.D. candidate, UF Interdisciplinary Ecology Click here to register Europe has a long history of land transformation for human use. Agriculture, infrastructure, urban sprawl, and industrialization including mining consumed much of the wild habitats and significantly decreased biodiversity richness across the continent. A number of habitats and species, however, persist and improving their conservation status is an important task of Member States of the…

Global Supply Chains: An Interconnected World Please register here Join us for "Global Supply Chains: An Interconnected World." The speakers in this series of lightning talks will discuss supply chains and logistics as related to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Each speaker will provide information on their region of expertise, while underlining the interdependency of the global system. As the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, shortages or interruptions of the supply chain affect communities around the globe, making an understanding…

A virtual career pathways discussion. Join us to discuss careers in international studies and the foreign service for foreign language majors! click here to register Bio: Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh (Ret.) is professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert, a London-based peacebuilding organization.  He had a Foreign Service career centered on peace efforts and humanitarian issues which included diplomatic postings in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome and Bern, and domestic assignments in the State…

Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series George Topalidis, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Criminology & Law Moderator: Chrysostomos Kostopoulos, UF CES and Classics click here to register The Ottoman Greeks of the United States Project (OGUS) is a multifaceted interdisciplinary research project at the University of Florida. OGUS was established in 2015 with the support of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Its main goal is to raise the public's awareness and inspiring scholarly research about the experiences of Ottoman Greek immigrants and…

R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University click here to register For some time, the membership of Hungary's nationalist ruling party, Fidesz (led by Viktor Orban), within the more mainstream European People’s Party (EPP) grouping at the European level has been a source of controversy. As Hungary shifted further away from traditional democratic norms, Fidesz membership led to tensions, conflict and criticism from other members of the EPP grouping. Many of these criticisms were directed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose continued…

Richard Cavanaugh, University of Illinois Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory click here to register Center for European Studies at UF Webinar Series: European Studies Because... The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, was established in the aftermath of World War II to promote cooperation between European states.  One of the founding principles of CERN is fundamental scientific research; another founding principle is that of scientific diplomacy.   Those two principles, combined with a distinctly European flair,…

Jean Monnet Chair Webinar Series: Pandemics in Europe: Political & Social Responses Sophia Russack, Centre for European Policy Studies Drew Fenner, UF Political Science & CES student Click here to register The COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamic of the EU institutions. Much attention has been paid to the functioning of the EU institutions at the highest political level, but less so at the working levels of the Council, the Commission, and the European Parliament. What was the nature of EU…

Panelists: Rainer Baubock, European University Institute; Roxana Barbulescu, University of Leeds; Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine Moderator: Hannah Alarian, University of Florida click here to register The Migration Experience in Europe: Integration, Inclusion, and Exclusion Across Europe, immigrants face mandatory integration requirements for citizenship, permanent residence, and in some cases event migration itself. Concurrently, discourse Europe has in some cases expand rights to immigrants without requiring they first acquire citizenship. This panel investigates the political causes, consequences, and…

Center for European Studies Speaker Series: Seeing Yourself in Europe click here to register Join the Center for European Studies (CES) for a panel discussion with four professionals with experience in Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK. Our panelists will speak about the academic and career pathways that led them to their current positions, what it's like living and working abroad as a person of color, and provide insight into what students can do now to prepare themselves for an…

Panelists: Jean Beaman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Hassan Bousetta, University of Liege; Marco Martiniello, University of Liege Moderator: Jan Musekamp, DAAD Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh click here to register The Migration Experience in Europe: Integration, Inclusion, and Exclusion This panel explores the impact of European colonialism on immigrant and minority communities within individual case studies of Europe. In doing so, panelists speak to the comparative inclusion and exclusion these immigrants living within Europe face as well as the…

Center for European Studies at UF Webinar Series: European Studies Because... Perspectives from European Planning History Panelists: Carla Brisotto, University of Florida and Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Politecnico di Milano Moderator: Vandana Baweja, UF College of Design, Construction, and Planning click here to register Today, a revised conceptualization of the city and the countryside, and attention to productive urban landscapes have been posited as instruments for the positive transformation of the agricultural sector and to approach territorial fragility while promoting…

Assessing the Impact of EU Regional Development Fund Spending on Support for the EU CES Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series Michael Webb, Ph.D. Candidate, UF Political Science Moderator: Marcel Lewandowsky, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professors, UF CES click here to register Though the European Union (EU) now operates under the umbrella of a single market, there is still great variation in the levels of development and the economic characteristics of its various regions. Some of these regions are further behind than others…

Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Webinar Series EU Cultural Policy: Beyond Masters and Museums Panelists: Guillaume Decot, European External Action Service; Damien Helly, Culture Solutions; Elke Selter, SOAS, University of London Moderator: Kristin Hausler, Center for International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law click here to register Speakers will consider the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage in conflict and crisis and its integration in peace-building initiatives, as well as the possible opportunities in the EU-US relations offered…

Panelists: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University; Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago; Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan Moderator: Michael Bernhard, University of Florida Click here to register The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences (PIASA) and the Center for European Studies at UF are pleased to announce and co-host a virtual conversation featuring Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse. During this event, Professor Grzymala-Busse will be formally presented with PIASA's 2020 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award. Following the award presentation, Professor Grzymala-Busse will join in…

Conversations on Europe What to Expect in the German Federal Election register here Panelists: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh Marcel Lewandowsky, University of Florida Kai Arzheimer, University of Mainz Jana Puglierin, European Council on Foreign Relations Moderator: Steve Sokol, American Council on Germany On the eve of the German Federal Elections, our panel of experts will weigh in on the various issues concerning German voters, the legacy of outgoing Chancellor Merkel, the potential impact of this election on the EU…

Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series Geographies of Digital Development in Europe’s New “Node Pole”  Alix Johnson, Anthropology Moderator: Brenda Chalfin, Center for African Studies Click here to register While digital data is often imagined as ephemeral, what we call “the cloud” is actually comprised of infrastructures and industries, unevenly distributed around the world. The Nordic countries and North Atlantic islands in particular have emerged as a hot spot for the data storage industry, thanks to their cold climates which facilitate the cooling of…

CES Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series Michael Webb, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science click here to register Economic change is a constant in the twenty-first century, but the implications of this change are anything but constant at the subnational level. Some spaces have experienced tremendous growth, while others have seen their economic prospects wither. What are the implications of this regional divergence for politics? Scholarly research suggests that broad patterns of structural, economic change at the subnational level are connected to the…

Germany After Merkel Panelists: Jana Puglierin, ECFR; Rafael Loss, ECFR; Marcel Lewandowsky, UF CES and DAAD Click here to register On September 26, Germany elected a new parliament. With it a new coalition government will come to power and Angela Merkel will depart the political stage after serving for 16 years as federal chancellor. Who might succeed her? What will be the foreign policy priorities of the new government? And how do Germany’s European partners view Merkel’s legacy and Germany’s…

European Studies Because… Speaker Series Novel Practices: Exploring rehabilitation and reentry strategies in European prisons Erika Brooke, UF Sociology and Criminology & Law Click here to register Rehabilitation and reentry have become important initiatives within the American correctional system. This presentation will explore how these similar initiatives are employed within European correctional systems. Specifically, it will highlight the innovative practices utilized in prisons that focus on rehabilitation and facilitate reentry back into the community for European inmates.

Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series Trying to Tremor: Meanings of Alternative Identity and Alternative Music in São Miguel Abigail Lindo, UF Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology Moderator: Imani Mosely, UF Musicology Click here to register In September 2021, I spent a week on São Miguel, the largest of the nine islands in the Azores (a Portuguese autonomous region in the North Atlantic Ocean). This experience served as a preliminary research trip, allowing me to engage with both an unknown environment and a somewhat unknown culture…

European Studies Because… Speaker Series - Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics, & Propaganda Lars Konzack, University of Copenhagen Click here to register In 1990, a Danish super hero graphic novel “Superman: A Tale of Five Cities” came out featuring the all-American superhero Superman.  It was the first official Superman created outside the United States. The graphic novel had a different take on the Man of Steel. In here, Superman visits five European Capitals (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, and Helsinki)…

Global Megaprojects: Shaped by Social and Institutional Environments Giovanni Esposito, University of Liège Click here to register Megaprojects are now as important as ever. As a response to the pandemic, the European Union has put forward the NextGenerationEU policy, making available a 2021–2027 long-term budget of €1.8 trillion to fund megaprojects with ecological and digital applications in the field of telecommunication, transportation and energy infrastructures. Similarly, in the United States a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is on the way. Despite their importance to…

CES Lunchtime Symposium Speaker Series Martin Sorbille, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, UF Keene-Flint 101 The military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain (1939-1975) carried out a systemic plan to “legally” abduct the babies and young children of executed Republican parents. Based on an esoteric mixture of eugenics, anti-communism, and conservative Catholicism, the objective was to remove the Marxist gene from the biology and psyche of the “red” children. Children were given new names, sent to orphanages administered by Catholic-Government institutions…