CES serves as a university resource and central hub for Europe-related activities and events on campus. The Center regularly hosts lectures and workshops for faculty to network with colleagues in the field, Lunchtime Symposium for graduate students to present research, and extracurricular events and tabling for undergraduate students to learn about Europe-related opportunities on campus.
European Studies Because Lecture Series
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
| October 22, 2024 | A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad | Richard T. Rodriguez, Professor, University of California, Riverside |
| March 26, 2024 | Contemporary Slovak Poster Art a Review | Adrián Kobetič, curator |
| March 21, 2024 | Greece in the Early 20th Century, and its Influence on Greek Music and Culture in America | Meletios Pouliopoulos, Greek Cultural Resources |
| November 16, 2023 | Russian Plebiscitarian Regime in Times of Peace and War | Greg Yudin, University Center for Human Values |
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Lunchtime Symposium
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
| September 10, 2025 | Buenos Dias, Genossen: Cuban-East German Transnational Relations | Lisa Krause |
| April 18th, 2025 | The Transatlantic Relationship: Marriage Counselling or Divorce Court? | Dr. Zachary Selden |
| October 30, 2024 | Accountability, Oversight, or Influence: Understanding the Use of Monetary Dialogues in the EP | Corinne Tomasi, PhD Student, Department of Political Science |
| April 18, 2024 | Identity and Language in Wartime Ukraine | Volodymyr Kulyk, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine & Columbia University |
| April 3, 2024 | Witnessing War: Real Stories of Russian Aggression in Ukraine | Oleksii Babynets, Fulbright Scholar, University of Florida |
| January 31, 2024 | Greening of Greenland: Connecting Vegetation, Nutrients, Landscape, and Streams: An African’s Experience Conducting Research in the Arctic | Izuchukwu Ezukanma, Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida |
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Co-Sponsored Events
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) | Speaker(s) From | Hosted By |
| April 17th, 2025 | Hearts, Minds, and Tongues: The USSR and Linguistic Competition in the Global Cold War | Rachel Applebaum | Tufts University | Department of History, University of Florida |
| April 9th, 2025 | Anti-Imperial Nostalgia, Africa, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Prof. Thom Loyd | Augusta University | Department of History, University of Florida |
| October 25, 2024 | The Distinctive Role of Comparative Area Studies (CAS) | Rudra Sil | University of Pennsylvannia | Department of Political Science, University of Florida |
| May 9, 2024 | Rimas de Resistencia: Narrativas del Hip Hop en Comunidades de Inmigrantes en Europa | Armin Langer | UF | University of Puerto Rico |
| May 8, 2024 | Estereotipos y Prejuicios: Orígenes y manifestaciones del Antisemitismo y la Islamofobia | Armin Langer | UF | University of Puerto Rico |
| April 9, 2024 | Conversations on Europe: Elections 2024: European Parliament Elections Across the 27 Member States | Kai Arzheimer, Catherine DeVries, Jan Rovny, Jae-Jae Spoon, Zeynep Somer-Topcu | U of Mainz, Bocconi U, Sciences Po-Paris, U of Pittsburgh, U of Texas at Austin | European Studies Center at University of Pittsburgh |
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Other Events
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| September 17, 2025 | Making IPAs Work: Real-World Lessons and Tips for K-16 Language Teachers | Jennifer Wooten, Director of Language Instruction, UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies |
| December 4, 2024 | Innovative Europe Speaker Series: Is the Future Digital: Geoeconomics of the Digital Euro | Carola Westermeier, Institute of Sociology, TU Darmstadt |
| November 20, 2024 | Free to Move Series: Border Futurities: Countermemory and Speculative Imagination in the Cinema of Displacement | Nilgun Bayraktar, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, California College of the Arts |
| November 12, 2024 | Free to Move Series: Immigration, Security and the Liberal State: Managing Migration in Europe and the United States | Gallya Lahav, Professor, Political Science, Stony Brook University |
| October 30, 2024 | Free to Move Series: Immigration, Security and the Liberal State: Mapping Europe’s Screen Borders: Possibilities and Perils | Michael Gott, Professor, French and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati |
| April 3, 2024 | The 2024 European Parliament Elections | Thomas Biebricher, Goethe University |
| April 2, 2024 | JMCE Forum: The Ethics of AI: EU and US Approaches to the Rapidly Expanding Use of AI | Anne Elisabeth Corrier, Emory; Jasmine McNealy, UF; Sandra Wachter, Oxford; Hina Shaikh, UF |
| April 2, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Poppy Seeds | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
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