Lectures & Podcasts
| March 3, 2016 | Faith Hillis: Assistant Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago | New Directions Lecture – “Europe’s Russian Colonies: East-West Migration and the Struggle for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Europe” | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 10-11, 2016 | Workshop | International Workshop on Climate Change | EUC Event Calendar Event Website |
| March 16, 2016 | Agnieszka Kubal (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University); Jessica Greenberg (Anthropology, UIUC); József Böröcz (Department of Sociology, Rutgers University); Maurizio Albahari (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame); Marina Terkourafi (Linguistics, UIUC); Carol Leff (Political Science, UIUC); George Gasyna (Slavic & Comparative Literature, UIUC) | Jean Monnet Module “Eastern Europe & EU Integration” Symposium: The Refugee Crisis and the New Right on the European Periphery | EUC Event CalendarEUC Blog Post |
| April 21 | Karen Dawisha, the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science and the Director at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio | MillerComm Lecture Series – Karen Dawisha “Putin’s Russia: The past and future of Kleptocracy” | EUC Event Calendar EUC Blog Post |
| September 3, 2015 | Zsuzsa Gille (Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois) | REEEC New Directions Lecture: Paprika, Foie Gras and Red Mud: Hungary Ten Years after EU Accession | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 22, 2015 | Herbert Quelle, Consul General of the German Consulate in Chicago; Zsuzsa Gille, Sociology, U of I University of Illinois; Kostas Kourtikakis, Political Science, University of Illinois; Lesley Wexler, Law, University of Illinoiss | Teach-in: European Refugee Crisis | EUC Event Calendar EUC Blog Post |
| October 6, 2015 | Paskal Zhelev, Chief Assistant Professor, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria; Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 2015 fall semester | REEEC Lecture: Bulgarian-Russian Trade Relations in the Post-Socialist Period | EUC Event Calendar |
| October 16, 2015 | Pascal Zhelev: Vsiting scholar in Dept. of Economics and Chief Assist. Professor, University of National and World Economy (UNWE), International Economic Relations and Business Department, Bulgaria. | Lecture: “New Trends in the EU Industrial Policy – Implications for Bulgaria” | EUC Event Calendar EUC Blog Post |
| October 31, 2015 | Various Speakers | EU Studies Conference: “Researching and Teaching the EU: Best Practices and Current Trends in EU Scholarship” — A Working Conference for Regional College Faculty | EUC Event Calendar |
| November 4, 2015 | The Jupiter String Quartet with William Kinderman | Jupiter String Quartet Presents the Complete String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Bartók Cycle Concert 1 | EUC Event Calendar |
| November 5, 2015 | Padraic Kenney (Professor of History and International Studies, Indiana University | REEEC Lecture: The Political Prisoner as a Global Figure | EUC Event Calendar |
| November 7, 2015 | The Jupiter String Quartet with Stephen Taylor | The Jupiter String Quartet Presents the Complete String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Bartók Cycle Concert 2 | EUC Event Calendar |
| November 8, 2015 | The Jupiter String Quartet with Donna Buchanan | The Jupiter String Quartet Presents the Complete String Quartets of Béla Bartók: Bartók Cycle Concert 3 |
EUC Event Calendar |
| February 5 2015 | Peter Holquist, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania | Crimes Against Humanity: Genealogy of a Concept, 1815-1945 | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 27, 2015 | John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy, Institute for Policy Studies | Blacklash in East-Central Europe: What happened to the Promise of 1989? | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 12-13, 2015 | Various Speakers | Regional College Faculty Conference: Researching and Teaching the EU: Best Practices and Current Trends in EU Scholarship | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 12, 2015 | His Excellency Andris Razans, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotetiary of Latvia to the United States | University of Illinois EU Center’s Thirteenth Annual EU Day Ambassador’s “State of the European Union” Keynote Address | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 12, 2015 | Klaas van der Tempel, Consul General of the Netherlands, Chicago; Mario-Ingo Soos, Deputy Consul General of Germany, Chicago; Yerassimos Lazaris, Trade Commissioner, Greek Consulate, Chicago |
The Future of the European Union: A Shared Vision? | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 13, 2015 | Christopher Jackson, EU Studies, University of Illinois | Regional College Faculty Conference: EULEX KOSOVO: The EU and Rule of Law in Post-War Kosovo | Abstract |
| March 13, 2015 | Kostas Kourtikakis, Political Science, University of Illinois | Regional College Faculty Conference: The Diffusion of Human Rights Norms and Practices in the European Union | Abstract |
| March 13, 2015 | Roundatable Discussion | “(Re)thinking and (Re)defining EU Studies” and “Strategies for Teaching the EU” | Conference Website Page |
| April 2-3, 2015 | Various Speakers | European Studies Symposium: Past and Present | EUC Event Calendar |
| April 3, 2015 | Consul General of the Republic of Poland Paulina Kapuscinska | European Studies Symposium: Remarks | Official Symposium Website |
| April 3, 2015 | Bart Rokicki, Professor of Economics, University of Warsaw; Scholar in Residence, University of Illinois EU Center and Department of Economics | European Studies Symposium: The Neglected European East | Official Symposium Website |
| May 2, 2015 | Mark Steinberg, Department of History, UIUC; Sundiata Cha-Jua, Department of History and Department of African American Studies, UIUC; Jessica Greenberg, Department of Anthropology, UIUC; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Department of History and Department of Sociology, UIUC; Linda Herrera, Department of Education Policy and Organization, UIUC | “Utopias and Revolutions” Professional Development Workshop: The Experience of Revolution: Imagining, Seeking, and Making Utopia | EUC Event Calendar |
| June 16, 2015 | Branislav Radejic, Professor of International Politics, University of East London | European Community-Yugoslav Relations: Documents that Mattered (1980-1992) | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 4, 2014 | Carol Leff, Professor of Political Science, UIUC | Is There Still an “Eastern” Europe? | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 4, 2014 | Various Speakers | The Great War Opening Event: Experiences, Representations, Effects | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 4 to December 8, 2014 | Exhibit | The Great War Exhibition: La Grande Guerre French Posters and Photographs from World War I | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 12, 2014 | Carolyn Ban, Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh | The Impact of Enlargement on the European Commission: Applying Anthrolopology and Social Psychology to the Study of an International Organization | EUC Event Calendar |
| September 26, 2014 | Bart Rokicki, Professor of Economics, University of Warsaw; Scholar in Residence, University of Illinois EU Center and Department of Economics | Regional Wage Determinants: The Wage Curve Approach in Poland, Brazil, and the EU | EUC Event Calendar |
| October 3rd, 2014 | Joan DeBardeleben, Director, Centre for European Studies/European Union Centre of Excellence, Carleton University | Value Clash Redux: The Revival of Normative Politics in the EU’s Relations with Russia? | EUC Event Calendar |
| October 21, 2014 | Mark Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Illinois; Carol Saivetz, Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Gregor Thum, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh; Andrew Konitzer, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh | 1914 Revisited? The EU-US-Russian Triangle | EUC Event Calendar |
| November 10, 2014 | Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University | From the Great War to the Bloodlands: Rethinking Europe’s History | EUC Event Calendar |
| December 2, 2014 | Elissa Helms, Professor of Gender Studies, Central European University | Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 2014 | Matt Rosenstein, Associate Director, EU Center, Chris Jackson, MA Candidate, EU Studies | New Year, New Member: Latvia Joins Eurozone (article in Diplomatist Online periodical) | EUC Blog Post |
| February 8-24, 2014 | Exhibit | The Sarajevo Winter Olympics: A Photo and Media Retrospective | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 11, 2014 | Carol Leff, Professor of Policial Science, UIUC | Civil Unrest in Ukraine (featured on the WILL program, Focus) | Audio Recording EUC Blog Post |
| February 14, 2014 | Kostas Kourtikakis, Professor of Political Science, UIUC; Carol Leff, Professor of Political Science, UIUC; Oleksandra Wallo, Professor of Slavic, UIUC | Roundtable Discussion: Understanding the Ukranian Maidan: Between Russia and the EU | EUC Event Calendar EUC Blog Post Video Recording Daily Illini Article |
| February 20, 2014 | Carol Leff, Professor of Political Science, UIUC | Protest in Ukraine: A Minute with Political Scientist Carol Leff (Illinois News Bureau interview) | EUC Blog Post |
| February 20, 2014 | Krassimira Daskalova, Professor of Modern European Cultural History, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria | REEEC New Directions Lecture: Biography as History: The Case of the Bulgarian Communist Functionary Tsola Dragoitcheva (1898-1993) | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 26, 2014 | Marijus Gudynas, Consul General of Lithuania in Chicago; Simeon Stoilov, Consul General of Bulgaria in Chicago; Robert Rusiecki, Deputy Consul General of Poland in Chicago; George Predescu, Consul General of Romania in Chicago |
Roundtable Panel Discussion with Members of Chicago Consular Corps: The EU’s Big Bang and Beyond: A Decade after Eastern Enlargement | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 27, 2014 | John Jurisic, Photographer | White City: A Photographer’s Retrospective on the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics | EUC Event Calendar |
| February 28, 2014 | Ambassador Ian C. Kelly, US Department of State | Lecture: The US, Russia, and Bridging the East-West Divide | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 4, 2014 | Mark Steinberg, Professor of History, UIUC | Local Ties to Unrest in Ukraine (WICD NewsChannel 15 interview) | REEEC Blog Post |
| March 5, 2014 | Salih Brkic, Journalist and Filmmaker | Salih Brkic: Bosnian Journalist and FIlmmaker | EUC Calendar Event |
| March 11, 2014 | Branislav Radeljic, Professor of International Politics, University of East London | Europe and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: The Role of Non-State Actors and European Diplomacy | EUC Event Calendar |
| March 11, 2014 | Paul Diehl, Professor, Political Science; Kyle Estes, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science; Edward Kolodziej, Director, ACDIS and Center for Global Studies; Carol Leff, Professor, Political Science; Lesley Wexler, Professor, School of Law |
Teach-In: Crisis in Crimea & Ukraine | EUC Event Calendar Illinois Admissions Blog Post REEEC Blog Post |
| March 11, 2014 | EU Center European Movie Night | Štěstí (Something Like Happiness) – Czech Republic, 2005 | EUC Event Calendar |
| April 2014 | Matt Rosenstein, Associate Director, EU Center, Chris Jackson, MA Candidate, EU Studies | The Hour of Europe in Ukraine (cover story in Diplomatist Online periodical) | Diplomatist Article |
| April 21, 2014 | Jessica Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UIUC | After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia | EUC Event Calendar |
| April 26, 2014 | Concert | Balkanalia Annual Spring Concert: Zbogom selo…Songs of Farewell, Dances of Joy | EUC Event Calendar |