Center for European Studies

  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 …

  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. …

  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 …

  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 …

  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, …

  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, …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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, …

  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. …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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. …

  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 …

  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 …

  Location Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery 1314 S Main Brief Intro The UF Center for European Studies and the Gainesville Fine Arts Association present a traveling exhibition of the photos of Faye Schulman, the only known Jewish partisan to document the WWII experience on film. Reception: February 15, 2020, from 6-8pm with introduction by …

  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 …

  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 …

  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, …

  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 …

  Location 3310 Turlington Brief Intro Career Development Serie Jonathan Byrne, Bletchley Park Trust Oral History Officer Byrne will share some insights from his second career, as an oral historian. He has been privileged to hear many fascinating stories from men and women who for so many years were forbidden to talk about their wartime …

  Location Dauer 219 Brief Intro WWII: Beyond the Battlefields – Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII Jonathan Byrne, Bletchley Park Trust Oral History Officer The top-secret British codebreaking establishment at Bletchley Park, forty miles north west of London, played a crucial part in Allied victory in …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

In this session students will share about their experiences with virtual internships. Hear about the resources they used to identify the program that was right for them, and what they learned as they navigated the challenges and successes of the experience. Hosted by the Center for European Studies, Career Connections Center, and the Office of …

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 …

European Studies Because… Speaker Series - Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics, & Propaganda Michael Scholz, Uppsala University click here to register Presenting spy comics from East Germany, the talk shows how the communist regime used comics as means of propaganda. From funny adventures in the 1950s the spy stories developed to serious and realistic …

European Studies Because… Speaker Series - Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics, & Propaganda Representing the Past Through Comics Language: A Historical-Sociological Analysis Barbara Gruning, University of Bicocca click here to register In the talk I will present a comparative analysis between the ways of narrating difficult pasts in Germany and Italy from the second …