Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida:
The Institute for Learning in Retirement, or ILR, is a vibrant community of retirement-age members who are engaged in lifelong learning, personal fulfillment and continuing education through participation in a variety of courses, programs and activities.
CES presents one series per semester:
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
| Fall 2023 | Sep 27 | Natalia Aleksiun | Jewish Life in Warsaw |
| Oct 4 | Agata Kowalewska | Warsaw: My City | |
| Oct 11 | Morgan Rich | Vienna’s Musical Landscapes | |
| Oct 26 | Armin Langer | Contemporary Viennese Society: A Vibrant Immigrant Community | |
| Oct 25 | Conor O’Dwyer | Urban Planning in the Postcommunist City: The Politics of Development in Prague | |
| Nov 1 | Holly Raynard | Cultural Identity in Prague | |
| Fall 2022 | Oct 5 | Asli Baysal | European Crises Overview |
| Oct 12 | Sara Agnelli | The Unity of Science: Preserving Europe’s Common Good in Times of Crisis | |
| Oct 19 | Zachary Selden | War in Ukraine: How Did We Get Here and How Might it End? | |
| Oct 26 | Corinne Tomasi | What it Took: 10 Years on from the Euro Crisis | |
| Nov 2 | Amie Kreppel | Global Britain or Little England: An Assessment of Brexit 3 Years On | |
| Fall 2021 | Oct 11 | Zach Selden | EU and the Transatlantic Relationship |
| Oct 18 | Emrah Sahin | EU and Turkey | |
| Oct 25 | Helen Jang | EU and China | |
| Nov 1 | Abdoulaye Kane | EU and Africa | |
| Nov 8 | Amie Kreppel | EU and the World | |
| Nov 9 | Michael Webb | The State of European Populism Today | |
| Fall 2020 | Oct 5 | Marcel Lewandowsky | Rising Autocrats and Freedom Fighters: How the Populist Radical Right in Germany Responds to the Corona Pandemic |
| Oct 12 | Amie Kreppel | EU and the Pandemic: Another Example of Integration Through Crisis Management | |
| Oct 15 | Asli Baysal | Post-Covid Crisis: EU Reactions to the Eastern Mediterranean Resources Disputes | |
| Fall 2019 | Sep 30 | Hannah Alarian | The Migrant Crisis and the Far-Right in German: Causes and Consequences |
| Oct 7 | Conor O’Dwyer | Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe | |
| Oct 14 | Marcel Lewandowsky | Populism on the Rise in Contemporary Germany | |
| Oct 21 | Lisa Booth | Russia Today: Human Rights, Democracy, and the Sakharov Center | |
| Nov 4 | Emrah Sahin | Debating European Identity: Turkish-German Athletes in Focus | |
