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Spies and Counterspies in East German Comics

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

FLAS Info Session

Join the Center for European Studies to learn about the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for summer 2022 and AY 22-23. These fellowships are funded by the US Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act. Fellowships are awarded to graduate and undergraduate students to study a European language and

Franco’s Abducted Children

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