2023-2024
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| 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 |
| October 10, 2023 | The Role of Fjords in the Carbon Cycle: Implications for Global Climate | Emily Watts, University of Florida |
| October 3, 2023 | Teaching Television in a European Studies Context | Mandy Moore, University of Florida |
| September 27, 2023 | Research Tutorials Abroad (RTA): Berlin | Azza Kamal, University of Florida |
2022-2023
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 19, 2023 | Goethean (Con) Artists: The German Novel as a Beautiful Deception on Thomas Mann’s The Confessions of Felix Krull | Jacqueline Schnieber, University of Florida |
| April 5, 2023 | Alimentary Imperialism: Tastes & Texts of British India | Meghan Sapui, University of Florida |
| March 29, 2023 | Exiles as a Crossroads: From Concentration Camps to Vampires | Enrique Munoz-Mantas, University of Florida |
| November 15, 2022 | Independence in Europe: Secessionist Party Rhetoric and the EU in a Post-Brexit United Kingdom | Sarah Snowmann, Ph.D. candidate, UF Political Science |
| September 27, 2022 | Rapping the German-Turkish Experience: The Representation of Immigrant Integration in Germany in Rapper Eko Fresh’s Music | Armin Langer, UF, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at CES |
2021-2022
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 5, 2022 | The Influence of Social Media in Tourism | Katarzyna Emin, University of Florida |
| March 17, 2022 | Dreams in Orbit: Children’s Letters to Gagarin, Glenn, & Tereshkova | Roshanna Sylvester, University of Colorado Boulder |
| March 15, 2022 | Declassified Documents and Digital Humanities: A Work in Progress | Timothy Sayle, University of Toronto |
| February 2, 2022 | Return to the Motherland | Seth Bernstein, UF, History |
| November 30, 2021 | Franco’s Abducted Children | Martin Sorbille, UF, Spanish and Portuguese |
| October 26, 2021 | Trying to Tremor | Abigail Lindo, UF, Ethnomusicology |
| October 5, 2021 | Structural Transformation and Populism | Michael Webb, UF, Political Science |
| September 28, 2021 | Making Data’s “Natural” Home | Alix Johnson, UF, Anthropology |
2020-2021
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 14, 2021 | Money Well Spent? Assessing the Impact of EU Regional Development Fund Spending on Support for the EU | Michael Webb, UF, Political Science |
| March 3, 2021 | Ottoman Greeks of the US Project (OGUS) | George Topalidis, UF, Sociology and Criminology & Law |
| Feb 22, 2021 | NATURA 2000 – The Backbone of Nature Conservation in the European Union | Matyas Prommer, UF, School of Natural Resources & Environment |
| Sept 29, 2020 | Everybody Knows What is Going on in Catalonia: Democracy, State, and Republican Insurrection | Francesc Morales, UF, Spanish & Portguguese |
2019-2020
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Feb 5, 2020 | “Millenials from Abidjan, Lagos, Tunis, and Lahore Surfing the Internet for @betterlife in Europe Through Italy” | Francesco Petricone, Holy Cross University |
| Jan 28, 2020 | “I’m determined to show them that the younger boys can fight as men”: Childhood Agency in Julian Kulski’s WWII Diary | Corinne Matthews, English |
| Nov 19, 2019 | “Summer in the Shifting Mountains: Contemporary Patterns of Plant Use in Ach’ara, Georgia (Caucasus)” | Richard W. Tate, UF, Interdisciplinary Ecology |
| Nov 5, 2019 | “Land Reform and Nationalism: Negotiating National Loyalty in Interwar Transylvania, Romania” | Bogdan Dumitru, UF, History |
| Sep 24, 2019 | “Trapping the Andre In the Poetics of Past and Present” | Jeremy Frusco, UF, Music History and Literature |
2018-2019
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 15, 2019 | “The Czech Republic, European Union, and the Rise of Populism” | Martin Nekola |
| Apr 2, 2019 | “Viable, Equitable, and Ecological? Tourism as Sustainable Development in the North Caucasus” | Christine LeJeaune, UF, Anthropology |
| Mar 29, 2019 | “Bulgarian Political Parties and European Integration: From Anticommunism to Euroscepticism” | Petia Kostadinova, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Feb 6, 2019 | “Living in BREXIT Limbo” | Nicola Kernaghan, Queen’s University Belfast |
| Jan 16, 2019 | “Fighting ‘Gayropa’: Instrumentalization of LGBT Rights in Ukrainian Public Debate” | Maryna Shevtsova, UF, CES/Fulbright |
| Nov 6, 2018 | “How to Monitor Sea Turtle Populations: Understanding the Population Dynamics of Loggerhead Turtles in Amvrakikos Gulf, Greece” | George Glen, UF, Biology |
| Oct 23, 2018 | “Information Politics in the Digital Age: Addressing the Issue of Social Media Election Meddling” | Phillip Arceneaux, UF, Telecommunications |
| Oct 2, 2018 | “Integration Methods of Romani People in Hungarian Society” | Caroline Montes, UF, Political Science/International Studies/Russian Studies |
2017-2018
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 2, 2018 | “Perhaps You Can Be Helpful in This Situation: Hungary, the Eastern Bloc, and the International Olympic Committee in the Cold War” | Johanna Mellis, UF, History |
| Mar 22, 2018 | “Imagining Yugoslav Territories from the Balkan Wars to World War II” | Emil Kerenji, US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| Mar 16, 2018 | “Cold War Nostalgia in Eastern Europe & the United States” | Penny Von Eschen, Cornell University, History |
| Feb 27, 2018 | “Porgy & Bess in the Soviet Union: A Diplomoatic Paradox?” | Lisa Booth, UF, History |
| Feb 21, 2018 | “African Americans in Jazz Age Paris” | Tyler Stovall, UC Santa Cruz, History |
| Nov 7, 2017 | “The 2017 German Elections Results and Their Impact on Germany’s Role in Europe” | Michael Schüring, UF, History |
| Oct 12, 2017 | “Strong Encounters: Expat and Refugee Polish-Jewish Journalists in Poland and Germany Shortly After World War II” | Jack Kugelmass, UF, Jewish Studies and Anthropology |
2016-2017
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 21, 2017 | Dealing with Dictators | Johanna Mellis, UF, History |
| Apr 4, 2017 | “Brexit & Migration: Challenges for Europe” | Horstpeter Kreppel, Retired European Court of Justice Judge |
| Mar 27, 2017 | “Secular Sacrality of Death” | Amila Buturovic, York University, Humanities |
| Mar 21, 2017 | “Studying Ethnic Politics in Southeastern Europe: Notes from the Field” | Dragana, Svraka, UF, Political Science |
| Nov 17, 2016 | “Père de la Croix and the Challenges of Christian Archaeology in Late 19th Century France” | Bonnie Effros, UF, History |
| Nov 3, 2016 | “Closing the System of Transformational Promise: The Case of Poland” | Andrzej Rychard, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish National Academy of Sciences, Political Science |
| Nov 1, 2016 | “Excavating the Past: Using Crime Fiction to Trouble History – A Writer’s View from Belfast” | Andrew Pepper, Queens University Belfast, English |
| Oct 26, 2016 | “After 1956: The Impact of the Revolution on Elite Sport Policy & Athletes in Hungary” | Johanna Mellis, UF, History |
| Sep 28, 2016 | “Yiddish on the Battlefields of Spain: Reportage During the Spanish Civil War” | Jack Kugelmass, UF, Jewish Studies and Anthropology |
| Sep 16, 2016 | “Moving Together, Moving Apart: Party Convergence and the Rise of Extreme Right Parties in Europe” | Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh, Political Science |
2015-2016
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 20, 2016 | “From Dayton to Brussels, via Tuzla: Post-2014 Politico-Economic Restructuring in Bosnia and Herzegovina” | Danijela Majstorovic, University of Banja Luka, Linguistics and Cultural Studies |
| Apr 4, 2016 | “Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine” | Paulina Pospieszna, Adam Mickiewicz University, Political Science |
| Mar 23, 2016 | “Legislative Behavior in the Northern Ireland Assembly, 2007-2011: Conflict and Consensus in a Developing Consociational Democracy” | Richard Conley, UF, Political Science |
| Feb 24, 20167 | “Literature and Ethics: The Ethical Turn in Criticism” | Bill Calin, UF Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
| Jan 28, 2016 | “Kadyrov on Instagram: Mediating Authority in Russia’s Web 2.0 World” | Michael Gorham, UF Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
| Nov 17, 2015 | “Deciphering Medieval Conversion: The Case of Petrus Alfonsi” | Nina Caputo, UF History |
| Nov 4, 2015 | “Crisis on Screen: The Great Recession in Recent Spanish Films” | Luis Alvarez-Castro, UF Spanish and Portuguese |
| Oct 28, 2015 | “European Refugee Crisis in Historical Context” | Alice Freifeld, UF History and Center for European Studies |
| Oct 15, 2015 | “The Emergence of the “Inner” Person in Post-Stalinist Lyric Poetry” | Radislav Lapushin, University of North Carolina Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Oct 14, 2015 | “Goya, Boccherini, and Majismo in Enlightenment Madrid” | Michael Vincent, UF Musicology |
| Oct 7, 2015 | “What was Historicism” | Robert D’Amico, UF Philosophy |
| Sep 2, 2015 | “War Memoir and Post-War Travel Narrative: Two Polish Journeys of Mordkhe Tsanin” | Jack Kugelmass, UF Jewish Studies and Anthropology |
2014-2015
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 15, 2015 | “Intercultural Dialogue and Belarus: Crisis or Chance?” | Liubou Uladykouskaja, Visiting Fulbright with UF Anthropology |
| Mar 20, 2015 | “Symbolic Politics and the Role of Intellectuals” | András Bozóki, Central European University, Hungary, Political Science |
| Mar 17, 2015 | “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Science Fiction: Genre Systems and Definitions in Central and Eastern Europe” | Paweł Frelik, Marie Curie Skłodowska University, Poland, American Literature and Culture |
| Mar 11, 2015 | “The Wall in the 1960s: “Propagandistic Objectivism – East & West German Visualizations of the Wall” | Frank Wolff, Osnabrück University, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies |
| Feb 25, 2015 | “The Life & Times of Solomon Mikhoels” | Vassili Shchedrin, UFJewish Studies |
| Febr 19, 2015 | “The 2017 German Elections Results and Their Impact on Germany’s Role in Europe” | Michael Schüring, UF, History |
| Oct 12, 2017 | “Youth & Rap on the Internet: A Case Study of Young Moroccans & Turks in Utrecht” | Jacomine Nortier, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Department of Linguistics |
