Center for European Studies

Mediterranean Movie Nights! Feature film: Magic Carpet Ride
2015-01-22 17:10 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | UF, Anderson Hall 034
Please join us for this Turkish comedy/drama about a struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.

ILR talk, Aida Hozic, Assistant Professor in Political Science, "Art & War: Some Observations"
2015-01-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Oak Hammock, Gainesville, FL, United States

Film screening, "The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga," and discussion with filmmaker Jessica Oreck
2015-01-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Library East Judaica Suite, University of Florida
http://thevanquishing.com/home.html
the film follows “fairy-tales and personal memories like a trail of breadcrumbs, [as it] descends into Eastern Europe’s haunted woodlands to uncover the secrets and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man’s place in nature.”

Europe: Democratic Politics in Times of Austerity, talk by Harris Mylonas
2015-01-09 12:50 - 14:00 | Anderson Hall, Room 216

Spring 2015 Semester Begins
2015-01-06 06:00 - 22:00

Winter Break
2014-12-20 08:00 - 2015-01-05 17:00

Winter Holiday Gathering
2014-12-09 12:00 - 16:00 | CES Main Office, 3324 Turlington Hall, Gainesville
Come join the Center for European Studies for sweets, Hors d’Oeuvres, and a plethora of goodies as we celebrate the season and the end of the semester. We will be celebrating from 12:00 – 4:00, so please do come by!

"Sarajevo 1914-2014: A Metaphor for Europe?"
2014-12-08 04:00 - 18:00 | History Department Conference Room, 005 Keene-Flint Hall, UF, Gainesville
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/742804479121463/

Film Screening of "Joyeux Noel" at the Harn
2014-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Information Session
2014-11-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Smathers Library East, Rm 100
Opportunities for study, research, and internships in Germany, presented by Michael Schuering, DAAD Scholar.

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Information Session
2014-11-18 10:00 - 11:00 | UFIC Large Conference Room

Talk: "Creative Europe: Visual Culture from National to European Style"
2014-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Pugh Hall 120, University of Florida
Abstract:
Europeanization is a term of social scientific analysis, largely ignored by the humanities; moreover Europeanization has been largely a term associated with economic and political transformations within the expanding EU and not an explicit question of culture. However with the start of 2014 the new Creative Europe program has come into effect and it has already had a deep impact on cultural production across the EU and well beyond its borders. The program seeks to harmonize and synergize the cultural and creative sectors across Europe, recognizing them as playing a “big role in the European economy.” This cultural policy produces what we can identify as culture industry 2.0. Thus attention to the program calls upon both social scientists and humanists to develop new paradigms of understanding European culture.

Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities (2014), German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic (2008), Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno (2004). He has co-edited After the Avant-garde: New Directions in Experimental Film (2008), Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective (2003), and Marginality and Alterity in Contemporary European Cinema, two special two volumes of Camera Obscura (2001). The lecture is funded by the Jean Monnet Chair and the European Union funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Florida and the Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professorship.

Talk: "A Tale of Two Countries: Poland, Bulgaria, and EU Integration"
2014-11-17 12:00 - 13:30 | CES Conference Room, 3312 Turlington Hall, University of Florida
Talk by Professor Larry DiMatteo on Monday, November 17th, at 12:00pm in the CES Conference Room (Turlington 3312).
Please join us for lunch and a stimulating discussion! Free and open to the public.

Talk: "The Return of Yiddish American Comedy"
2014-11-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Library East Judaica Suite, University of Florida
Join us November 13th at 5pm in UF Library East’s Judaica Suite for a humorous and historical take on Yiddish in American comedy by Tony Michels, University of Wisconsin: Madison – an event in the Center’s Yiddish Series.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566118630275842/

Film Screening: "The Return of Nathan Becker"
2014-11-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Harn Museum of Art Chandler Auditorium, 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL
Join us at the Harn Museum, November 12th at 6pm, for a film screening of “The Return of Nathan Becker,” the only Russian-Yiddish talkie produced in the Soviet Union. Starring Solomon Mikhoels, “The Return of Nathan Becker” tells the story of an American Jewish bricklayer who returns to the Soviet Union with an African American friend.
This event is free and open to the public!
Filmed in 1932 in Russian and Yiddish with English subtitles. Remastered by the National Center for Jewish Film.

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