2023-2024
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 3, 2024 | The 2024 European Parliament Elections | Thomas Biebricher, Goethe University |
| April 2, 2024 | Jean Monet Center of Excellence Forum: The Ethics of AI, EU and US Approaches to the Rapidly Expanding Use of AI | Anne Elisabeth Courrier, Emory; Jasmine McNealy, UF; Sandra Wachter, Oxford; Hina Shaikh, UF |
| April 2, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Poppy Seed | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| March 26 – April 20, 2024 | Contemporary Slovak Poster Art Exhibit | |
| March 20, 2024 | Less Commonly Taught Europe Speaker Series: 10 Years of Crimea’s Occupation: Crimean Tatars’ Resistance and Resilience | Greta Uehling, University of Michigan; Mariia Shynkarenko, Institute of Human Sciences; Armin Langer, UF |
| March 19, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Paprika | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| March 8, 2024 | Guest Artist Piano Recital | Joseph Bognar |
| March 8-9, 2024 | Artists in Exile Workshop | learn more here |
| March 5, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Nutmeg | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| February 20, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Honey | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| February 6, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enrichment Course: Dill & Parlsey | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| January 23, 2024 | Savoring Europe Culinary Enricment Course: Chocolate | Agata Kowalewska, UF; Beth Gankofskie, UF |
| November 14, 2023 | Less Commonly Taught Europe Speaker Series: Professional Pathways Lunch and Learn: Gender Equality Careers | Holly Dustin, House of Commons, UK Parliament; Janet Veitch, Equalities Consultant |
| November 13, 2023 | Jean Monet Center of Excellence Forum: Understanding Gender Inequality: Views from the EU, US, and UK | Holly Dustin, House of Commons, UK Parliament; Danaya Wright, UF; Janet Veitch, Equalities Consultant; Maddy Coy, UF |
| November 9, 2023 | Less Commonly Taught Europe Speaker Series: Black Seine: Le Paris Noir | Kevi Donat, Le Paris Noir |
| September 30, 2023 | Internationalizing the Curriculum: The Many Faces of Democracy | Vasiliki Neofotistos, SUNY Buffalo; Richard Kweitsu, UF; Marcel Lewandowsky, University of the Armed Forces; William Nylen, Stetson University |
2022-2023
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| March 7, 2023 | Slavic Myths Speaker Series: Fantastic Beings of Folk Beliefs | Witold Vargas, author |
| March 1, 2023 | Fueling the War in Ukraine | Emily Holland, United States Naval War College; Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University |
| February 24-25, 2023 | ECB Workshop | Michele Chang, College of Europe; Amy Verdun, University of Victoria; Erik Jones, European University Institute, and more |
| February 23, 2023 | Challenges to Democracy | Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine |
| February 7, 2023 | Slavic Myths Speaker Series: Who is Baba Yaga, and Where Does She Appear in Oral Tradition? | Andreas Johns, teacher |
| January 26, 2023 | Slavic Myths Speaker Series: Introduction to Slavic Mythology | Michał Łuczyński, teacher |
| October 27, 2022 | European Scary Stories | Armin Langer, UF CES/DAAD; Agata Kowalewska, UF CES; Holly Raynard, CES UF; Carla Ruffer, CES UF; Jacqueline Schnieber, UF English; Joshua Delamater, UF; Asli Baysal, CES UF; Edit Nagy, CES UF |
2021-2022
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 22-23, 2022 | Still the Age of Populism?: A Reset Conference | Mabel Berlin, Cornell University; Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University; Berk Esen, Bilkent University; Venetian Ganev, Miami, Ohio; Stephen Hanson, William & Mary University; Jan Kubik, Rutgers, UCL; Maria Snegovaya, Columbia University; Debora Spini, NYU & Syracuse in Firenze; Jonathan White, London School of Economics; Marco Garrido, University of Chicago; Philip Gorski, Yale University; Wendy Hunter, UT Austin; Frances Lee, Princeton University; Margarita Lopez-Maya, Central University of Venezuela; Joe Lowndes, University of Oregon; Enrique Peruzzotti, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University; Kurt Weyland, UT Austin; Jonathan Laurence, Boston College; Hannah Alarian, UF; Michael Bernhard, UF; Carlos de la Torre, UF; Joseph Glover, UF; Aida Hozic, UF; Andrew Janusz, UF; Amie Kreppel, UF; Marcel Lewandowsky, UF; Conor O’Dwyer, UF; Cristian Perez, UF; Juliana Restrepo, UF; Esther Romeyn, UF |
| March 17, 2022 | Poekhali! Gender and Cosmic Dreaming in Young People’s Letters to Early Cosmonauts | Roshanna Sylvester, University of Colorado Boulder |
| March 16, 2022 | Ukraine and the Crisis of European Security | Stephen E. Hanson, William & Mary; Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University; Ola Onuch, The University of Manchester; Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University; Michael Bernhard, University of Florida |
| March 15, 2022 | Pax Atlantica: NATO’s Enduring Alliance | Timothy Sayle, University of Toronto |
| February 22, 2022 | Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in France | Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara |
| October 14, 2021 | A New Era? Germany After Merkel | Jana Puglierin, ECFR; Rafael Loss, ECFR; Marcel Lewandowsky, UF |
2020-2021
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| April 7, 2021 | The Migration Experience in Europe: Integration, Inclusion, & Exclusion -Immigrant Case Studies | Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara; Hassan Bousetta, University of Liege; Marco Martiniello, University of Liege; Jan Musekamp, University of Pittsburg |
| April 1, 2021 | Seeing Yourself in Europe – Black Professionals in Europe: Experiences of People of Color | Cheryl McGee Wallace, Ijeoma Okoli, Fana Gibson, Neal Hutchinson |
| March 31, 2021 | The Migration Experience in Europe: Integration, Inclusion, & Exclusion – Immigrant Rights & Integration | Rainer Baubock, European University Institute; Roxana Barbulescu, University of Leeds; Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine |
| March 11, 2021 | WW2: Beyond the Battlefields – Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII – Bletchley Park: Women Vital to the War-Winning Intelligence | Jonathan Byrne, Bletchley Park Trust |
2019-2020
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Feb 18, 2020 | French Cuisine Cooking Class & Valentine’s Day in Europe | |
| Feb 15, 2020 | WW2: Beyond the Battlefields – Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII: Pictures of Resistance photography reception | Norman Goda, UF, Center for Jewish Studies |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 | Lenny Urena Valerio, LASC; Geoff Eley, University of Michigan; Susann Caulfield, University of Michigan |
| Feb 20, 2020 | “Flowers for Sarajevo” Illustrator Discussion | Kristy Caldwell, illustrator |
| Jan 14 – March 14, 2020 | WW2: Beyond the Battlefields – Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII: Pictures of Resistance photography exhibit | |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30 Years After Berlin 1989 | |
| Nov 13, 2020 | A Taste of Europe Cooking Class | |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Right-Wing Populist Parties and Border Issues: Toward a Global Perspective | Oscar Mazzoleni |
| Nov 8, 2020 | The Collapse: 1989 Then and Now – The Wall in 1989: A Retrospective | Dirk Philipsen, Duke University; Istvan Hegedus, Hungarian Europe Society |
| Nov 4, 2020 | The Collapse: 1989 Then and Now – The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Making (and Unmaking?) of a Global Iconic Event | Julia Sonnevend, The New School of Social Research |
| Oct 29, 2019 | The Holocaust, the POLIN Museum, and the Politics of the Past in Poland | Dariusz Stola, POLIN Museum |
| Oct 28, 2020 | The Collapse: 1989 Then and Now – Does the Wall Persist? The Belated Rise of Populism in a Unified Europe | Michael Bernhard, UF, Political Science; Marcel Lewandowsky, UF, CES; Simona Guerra, University of Leicester; Malada Vachudova, UNC Chapel Hill; Conor O’Dwyer, UF, CES & Political Science; Dariusz Stola, Polin Museum |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Coffee Research Symposium | Wendy Pojmann, Siena College |
2018-2019
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| May 9, 2019 | The Locomotive of History: Rethinking Revolution in Modern Europe | Enzo Traverso, Cornell University |
| Apr 16, 2019 | “Women in Science: A Comparative Perspective – Eastern Europe and the US” | Mariola Edelmann, Microbiology and Cell Science, Agata Kowalewska, CES and Environmental Sciences, Ada Uminska, Physics |
| April 4, 2019 | BREXIT: The Aftermath: Brexit and Europe’s Perfect Storm | R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University |
| Jan 28, 2019 | “Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe” | Conor O’Dwyer, CES and Political Science |
| Nov 8, 2018 | “Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire” book launch and panel | Emrah Sahin, CES; Usama Makdisi, Rice University; Matt Jacobs, History; Michelle Campos, History; Benjamin Soares, Islamic Studies |
| Oct 27, 2018 | “Czech and Slovak Emigre Panel” | Paul Gazda, Paul Kucera, and Anna Rybar |
| Oct 18, 2018 | “Ex Post Facto: How the Story of Normalization Played Out on Television” | Paulina Bren, Vassar College |
| Oct 4, 2018 | “Prague 1968: From Reforms to Invasion” | Holly Raynard, UF, Center for European Studies |
2017-2018
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 20, 2018 | “The Transatlantic Relationship in the Era of Trump | David Armitage, US Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research |
| Mar 27, 2018 | “The Rise of European Populism” panel | Anna Brigevich, North Carolina Central University, Political Science; Buket Oztas, Furman University, Politics & International Affairs; Ioannis Ziogas, Mississippi State University, Political Science |
| Mar 15, 2018 | “Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War: Europe and the Crosscurrents of Jazz in the Early Cold War” | Penn Von Eschen, Cornell University, History |
| Feb 21, 2018 | “Music, Exile, & Freedom: Jazz and the African American Experience in Interwar Paris” | Tyler Stovall, UC Santa Cruz, History |
| Feb 1, 2018 | “The Future of Ukraine & European Union Relations” | Serhiy Kvit, Fulbright Visiting Scholar & Former Ukrainian Minister of Education |
| Nov 17, 2017 | “Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War” by Svetlana Alexievich Discussion | Lisa Booth, UF, History |
| Nov 17, 2017 | “The Liberal International Order & the Rise of Nationalist Populism” | Berthold Rittberger, University of Munich, Political Science |
| Nov 16, 2017 | “Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This?” | Berthold Rittberger, University of Munich, Political Science |
| Nov 16, 2017 | “Do Parliaments Underrepresent Women’s Policy Preferences?” | Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, University of Salzburg, Comparative Politics |
| Nov 2, 2017 | “Brexit and the Global Challenge of Economic Populism” panel | Monika Machon,former Treasurer AIG; Elias Dinopoulos, UF, Economics; Amie Kreppel, UF, CES Director/Political Science |
| Nov 1, 2017 | “The Future of Ukraine & European Union Relations” | Serhiy Kvit, Fulbright Visiting Scholar & Former Ukrainian Minister of Education |
| Oct 24, 2017 | “Science & the Evolution of Planetary Politics: A Political Epistemology for the Anthropocene” | Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies |
| Oct 24, 2017 | “Bridging the Great Divide: The Anthropocene as a Challenge to the Social Sciences & Humanities” | Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies |
| Oct 23, 2017 | “The Anthropocene: Rethinking Environment & Society, Disciplines, & Time” | Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum |
| Oct 3, 2017 | Music, Film, and War | Emily Theobald, UF, Music |
2016-2017
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Nov 1, 2016 | “Postcards from the Front-Line: Global Entanglements of War and Tourism” | Debbie Lisle, Queens University Belfast, Politics and International Studies |
| Oct 31, 2016 | “Crime, Crime Literature and Society – A Panel” | Jeffrey Adler, UF, History and Sociology and Criminology & Law; Aida Hozic, UF, Political Science and Andrew Pepper, Queens University Belfast, English |
| Oct 30, 2016 | “Maximum Visuality: How to Look at Pictures of War” | Debbie Lisle, Queens University Belfast, Politics and International Studies |
| Oct 25, 2016 | “Part High Adventure and Part Dangerous Long Shot: The Melbourne Defection and U.S. Cold War Strategy” | Toby Rider, California State University Fullerton, History |
| Sep 15, 2016 | “Brexit: A Roundtable” | Patrick Crowley, Texas A&M University, Economics; Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh, Political Science and Amie Kreppel, UF, Political Science |
| Apr 15, 2016 | “Turkish-American Encounters: Exchanges in Culture and Politics – A Panel” | Justin McCarthy, University of Louisville, History and Ross Wilson, Former US Ambassador |
| Apr 1, 2016 | “Minerva’s Outcast Children: Expelled Scientists and the Politics of History in the Max Planck Society” | Michael Schüring, UF, HIstory |
| Mar 25, 2016 | “Power-sharing in Deeply Divided Places” | Brandon O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania, Political Science |
| Mar 24, 2016 | “Ireland, 1916: The Rising and the War” | Jessica Harland-Jacobs, UF, History |
| Feb 11, 2016 | “International Communism and the Spanish Civil War” | Lisa Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, History |
2015-2016
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Dec 3, 2015 | “The European Refugee Crisis and Hungary: A Critical Analysis” | István Tarrósy, University of Pécs, Political Science |
| Dec 2, 2015 | “Aging and Religion in Social Context: Europe, the “Exceptional” and Greying Continent” | Jenni Spannari, University of Helsinki, Finland, Church and Social Studies |
| Nov 30, 2015 | “The Implications of the Paris Attacks for the EU and the Transatlantic Relationship” | Zachary Selden, UF Political Science |
| Nov 13, 2015 | “When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility” | Phillip Ayoub, Cornell University, Politics |
| Oct 17, 2015 | “An Afternoon of Russian Poetry” | Vera Zubarev, University of Pennsylvania, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Radislav Lapushin, University of North Carolina, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Oct 16, 2015 | “A Mystery of Mirror Dates in Bella Akhmadulina’s Works” | Vera Zubarev, University of Pennsylvania, Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Sep 30, 2015 | “Refugee Crisis in Europe: Facts and Contexts” – A Panel with CES Faculty | Alice Freifeld, Esther Romeyn, Maria Stoilkova and Alin Ceobanu, UF Center for European Studies |
| Aug 25, 2015 | “Turkey Between East & WestL Religion and Culture in a Changing World” | Sinan Ciddi, Georgetown University and Institute of Turkish Studies |
| Apr 9, 2015 | “Michael Dixon: Artist Talk: Living as the Other” | Michael Dixon and Ashlyn Diaz |
| Mar 27, 2015 | “FORTEPAN: An Open-Source Photography Archive of Everyday Life in 20th Century Hungary” | András Török, Director of Summa Artium |
| Mar 16, 2015 | “After the Curtain: Post-1989 Fantastic in Poland” | aweł Frelik, Marie Curie Skłodowska University, Poland, American Literature and Culture |
| Feb 26, 2015 | “A Greek Tragedy in the Making? The Eurozone vs. Greece in an Era of Radical Left Politics” – A Debate | Tom Kostopoulos, UF Center for European Studies and Classics and Ioannis Ziogas, UF Political Science |
| Feb 11, 2015 | “Contemporary Russian Political Rhetoric” (ILR Talk at Oak Hammock)” | Michael Gorham, UF Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
| Jan 27, 2015 | “Muslims, Jews & The Media in France” – A Roundtable Dedicated to Recent Events | Gayle Zachman, UF Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Alioune Sow, UF Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Abdoulaye Kane, UF Anthropology ; Esther Romeyn, UF Center for European Studies |
| Jan 21, 2015 | “Art & War: Some Observations” (ILR Talk at Oak Hammock) | Aida Hozic, UF Political Science |
2014-2013
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Jan 9, 2014 | Three Generations of Research on Post-Communist Politics | Speaker Series: Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Gallery Talk, The Harn Museum of Art | Speaker Series: Photographer Tomasz Zerek and Jack Hutchens, University of Florida |
| Aug 25, 2015 | “Turkey Between East & WestL Religion and Culture in a Changing World” | Sinan Ciddi, Georgetown University and Institute of Turkish Studies |
| Jan 17, 2014 | Mother Solidarity: Anna Walentynowicz’s Path to Opposition – An Exercise in Memory Studies | Speaker Series: Anna Muller, University of Michigan |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Reclaiming History: A Brief Look at Hungarian Psychology; Hungary, the IMF, and the European Union | Speaker Series: Agnes Szokolszky, University of Szeged, Hungary; Tamas Fellegi, former Minister of National Development, Hungary |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Sex, Politics, and Putin | Speaker Series: Valerie Sperling, Clark University |
Two Special Talks in 2013
The Center for European Studies sponsored two special talks in 2013.Here is Alojzy Nowak, Vice Provost of Warsaw University talking about “Fiscal Problems of the European Union.”
Selma Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam speaks on “Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak.”
2011-2012
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Women Writing the “Colonial Form” in the Postcolonial Portuguese Metropolis | Ana Paula Ferreira Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies University of Minnesota |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Turkey: The Results of the Recent Public Referendum and Its Implications | Sinan Ciddi, Florida State University Middle East Center Symposium on Turkish Studies |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Associated with the Past? Communist Legacies and Civic Participation in Post-Communist Countries | Grigore Pop-Eleches |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Reading and Writing the Face: Portraiture from Realism to Modernism | Kamilla Pawlikowska, University of Kent |
| Jan 18, 2011 | In Private and in Public: The Body as a Site of Resistance: The Case of Women Political Prisoners in Post-1945 Poland | Anna Muller, Indiana University |
| Jan 13, 2011 | Jacek Kaczmarski’s Quest for Cosmopolishness | Grzegorz Danowski, McMaster University |
| Jan 11, 2011 | When Nabokov Writes Badly: Nabokov, the Question of Quality, and Laughter in the Dark | Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley |
2008-2009
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Sibling Rivalries: Judaism, Christianity, Islam from “The Challenge of Religion in History” | David Nirenberg, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored |
| Sep 10, 2008 | Russia, Georgia, and the West: A New Cold War | Panel Discussion, Pugh Hall |
2007-2008
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Afghanistan: Policy for European Union Engagement | Paul Turner from the European Commission External Relations – Afghanistan Unit |
| Apr 14, 2008 | talk and meeting | Paul Turner, European Commission External Relations – Afghanistan Unit / Partner: EU Club |
| April 8, 2008 | External Policies of the European Union | Gordon Adam, retired Member of European Parliament |
| Apr 7, 2008 | 25 Years as a MEP | Gordon Adam, retired Member of European Parliament / Partner: EU Club |
| April 7, 2008 | La Perplejidad de la Escritora Ante Su Obra (The Perplexity of the Writer Looking at Her Work) | Carme Riera, Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona / Partner: Romance Languages and Literatures Department |
| March 6, 2008 | The Past, Present, and Future of EU-US Relations | Amie Kreppel, CES Director / Partner: UF Alumni Association |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Reading and Writing the Face: Portraiture from Realism to Modernism | Kamilla Pawlikowska, University of Kent |
