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Fall 2017

Sep 18-22
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Events This Week

 

[1917/1927 Series] 

Poetry Performance

Mon, Sep 18 | 7 pm  

Red Herring, 1209 W Oregon St

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Revolutionary Poetry Slam

This event is part of the event series entitled “1917: Ten days that shook the world / 2017: Ten days that shake the campus”. More information is available here. 

Co-sponsored by various campus units including the European Union Center.

Conversations on Europe Videoconference series (with Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Wed, Sep 20 | 11 am

507 E Green St., Rm 413

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Germany's elections -- what's at stake in 2017? 

Panelists:
Annika Schechinger, Deputy Director of the Information Center USA, German Embassy
Tarik Abou-Chadi, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin
Mark Kayser, Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Gregor Thum, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Moderator: Jae-Jae Spoon, Director, European Studies Center and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsored by European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh, along with Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, European Union Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University.

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Lecture

Thu, Sep 21 | 5:30 pm  

Krannert Art Museum

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Universal Prostitution and Concrete Abstraction: Labour and the Biopolitics of 19th-Century Abstract Painting

Speaker: Jaleh Mansoor

This event is part of the event series entitled “1917: Ten days that shook the world / 2017: Ten days that shake the campus”. More information is available here.

Co-sponsored by various campus units including the European Union Center.

EUC Lecture

Fri, Sep 22 | 12 pm

FLB, Rm. 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge), 707 S Mathews

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The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy: Benefits and Costs of Membership

Speaker: David Bullock, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, U. of Illinois

Organized by the European Union Center.

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Gallery Conversation

Fri, Sep 22 | 1-3 pm

Krannert Art Museum

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Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)

Gallery Conversation with the curator and UIUC faculty on "Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)"

This event is part of the event series entitled “1917: Ten days that shook the world / 2017: Ten days that shake the campus”. More information is available here.

Co-sponsored by various campus units including the European Union Center.
 

 

  Upcoming Events

 

Register now!
(Deadline: Sep 20)

Annual EU Studies Conference

Fri, Oct 20 - Sat, Oct 21

Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St.

"Researching and Teaching the EU: Best Practices and Current Trends in EU Scholarship"

A Working Conference for Regional College Faculty 

October 20-21, 2017

Registration deadline: Wednesday, September 20, 2017


Conference web page | Online registration

Registration fee: Participants who are not presenting are required to pay a $50 registration fee. This fee will be waived for accepted speakers and University of Illinois faculty and graduate students.

Travel grants available. A $100 travel reimbursement grant and one night of free lodging will be available to all accepted out-of-town participants.

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We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for this exciting, upcoming annual conference! Proposals for research presentations on any topic relevant to EU studies from scholars, college instructors, and graduate students are welcome. Colleagues with only a nascent academic interest in the EU are also invited to join us without being obliged to present any materials.

We are also very excited to announce that we will kick-off this annual conference with two special pre-conference events on Friday, October 20: We have invited and awaiting confirmation from His Excellency Lauri Lepik, Ambassador of Estonia to the US, to deliver the annual EU Day “State of the EU” Keynote Address, to be preceded by a reception and followed by a luncheon. This will be our sixteenth year hosting the EU Day and the highlight of the celebration is the address by the Ambassador of the country that holds the presidency of the Council of the EU. In the afternoon, we will be welcoming world-renowned scholars for a Roundtable on “Sovereign Debt Crisis in the Transatlantic Arena” to be followed by a reception.

Don’t miss these exciting series of events! Seats are limited so register early!

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture

Tue, Sep 26 | 12 pm

126 iSchool, 501 E Daniel St.

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Gloomy Finland and the Russian Imperial Gothic

Speaker: Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois

Abstract: This talk is based on one of the chapters from Professor Valeria Sobol’s book in progress, Haunted Empire: The Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny, 1790-1850. The book explores the connection between the Gothic and empire in Russian literature, focusing on the portrayal of Northern and Southern imperial borderlands as uncanny spaces. In this lecture, Professor Sobol will discuss the image of “gloomy” and Gothic Finland constructed in Russian literary and ethnographic publications of the 1840s. While being intimately linked to Russian foundational narratives, such the “invitation of the Varangians” and the construction of St. Petersburg, Finland emerged as an exotic and mysterious land after its incorporation into the Russian empire in the early nineteenth century. Finland’s ambivalent status in the Russian cultural imagination, along with the Gothic connotations of its majestic sublime landscape and its reputation as a “land of wizards,” made it a particularly apt setting for the Russian imperial uncanny. The lecture will offer a brief analysis of Vladimir Odoevsky’s novella “The Salamander” (1844) meant to demonstrate this function of Finland in Russian Gothic literature. While most ethnographic and literary texts depict the Finns as a magic-prone, semi-mythological people destined by both history and geography to be ruled by others and enthusiastically embracing the Russian civilizational mission, Odoevsky offers a far more complex and darker picture, using the narrative of the conquest of Finland to critique both Russia’s historical path and Western modernity more generally.

Organized by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC), co-sponsored by the European Union Center.

Be-troit

Performance Poetry

Wed, Sep 27 | 2-4 pm  

Foreign Languages Building, Rm. 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge), 707 S. Mathews

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Be-troit Performance Poetry: documentary screening, poetry & music performance, and discussion

This event will feature a screening and discussion of the documentary film Be-troit, led by Be-troit co-creators and artistic directors Olad Aden and Veniece Session. The event will also feature performances by participating artists, poets, rapper, and singers.

Rhythm and musicality of poetry, their oral origin and their close connection to song was often part of the social fabric. These performative characteristics make poetry very attractive for performance events while it can be an enormous challenge to transfer its content to another language and culture. Cities worldwide have seen a renaissance of live poetry readings and performances, accompanied by increased interests in digital forms and methods of networking on a global scale.

Be-troit Performance Poetry, a project between Detroit and Berlin, is an international exchange literature project between the cities of Detroit and Berlin with a focus on contemporary performance poetry. It takes up impulses of poetry, Spoken Word, Slam Poetry and Rap from Detroit and Berlin. Building on specific local traditions these art forms mix literature, music, dance and visual arts. The numerous events in Detroit are combining Spoken Word and HipHop, improvisation and freestyle: beatboxers, poets, competitive battles and DJs support the performing poets.

Organized by the European Union Center. Co-sponsored by teh Goethe Institut-Chicago.

Film screening and discussion

Thu, Sep 28 | 5:45pm  

Foreign Languages Building, Rm. 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge), 707 S. Mathews

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Dialogue: Polish-Jewish Film Series -- Korczak

This event will feature a screening and discussion of the 1990 film "Korczak," followed by a thoughtful discussion on the topic of the film. Pizza will be provided by the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. All are welcome to attend. All films in the series will have English subtitles.

Visit the film's IMDB page

Contact: Lizy Mostowski

Co-sponsored by the European Union Center and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society.

Symposium

Fri, Sep 29 | 9:15 am - 4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Conference room 210

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Shifting Iran-US Relations Symposium

Co-organized by the program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS) and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES).

Co-sponsored by various campus units, including the European Union Center.
 

[1917/1927 Series] 

Film screening

Fri, Sep 29 | 7:30 pm  

505 E Armory Ave., Rm 101

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Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Films - The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

Screening of the film "The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty."

This event is part of the event series entitled “1917: Ten days that shook the world / 2017: Ten days that shake the campus”. More information is available here.

Co-sponsored by various campus units including the European Union Center.
 

 
Related Events

 

WGGP Student Research Symposium

Wed, Sep 20 | 1-4:14 pm

314 B, Illini Union

WGGP Student Research Symposium

The symposium will feature student presentation with faculty commentators. 

Complete schedule is available here. 

   

 

EUC Social Media Highlight

 
 Social Media Highlight

Submit a blog post!

The European Union Center is always seeking new contributions for our main blog.  If you are knowledgable on a topic or event related to the European Union Center or the European Union, and wish to write about it, the European Union Center's Blog would love to host your article.  We are looking for submissions that are informative, brief, vivid, and inviting. If you are interested in submitting a post, please read over our submission, image, and writing guidelines here. 

As always, we invite you to join the conversation by leaving comments on our Blog and sharing posts/tweets with others! Also, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
 

 

  Announcements

 

New Study Abroad Program in Italy - Pavia

New Study Abroad Program in Italy – Pavia

The Department of French and Italian is thrilled to announce its new Study Abroad Program in Pavia, starting in the Spring 2018. 

In partnership with the University of Pavia, this new program offers courses in English and Italian with pre-approved Illinois credit in the stunning medieval city of Pavia.

View the application page, where you can find useful information, here.

Please contact professor Stoppino (stoppino@illinois.edu) if you are interested in applying.

Council for European Studies
25th International Conference

Europe and the World: Mobilities, Values and Citizenship

March 28 - 30, 2018Inter Continental Chicago Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Organized by the Council for European Studies

The intensification of migrant flows and capital mobility in Europe in an era marked by economic instability and security crises has generated widespread political backlash that poses fundamental threats to Europe's core institutions. Understanding these developments necessitates the careful study of the wide-ranging and powerful processes of mobility, both from within and outside of Europe, that are reconfiguring identities and citizenship regimes across European nation-states. Because mobility processes are shaped by economic, cultural, and geopolitical factors and the challenges they raise span the domains of political governance, party politics, economic policy, security, and collective self-understanding, this topic requires interdisciplinary engagement across the social sciences and humanities. Many of the challenges facing Europe raise questions about the position of Europe in the world. What is specific about the European political crisis and what features does it share with comparable developments in the United States and Asia? To what degree are these changes fueled by transnational cooperation and the diffusion of strategies among political actors? What are the possible consequences of the ongoing migration patterns and the associated rise of populist politics for democratic institutions and the welfare state? How are mainstream parties on the left and the right responding to the challenges from the radical right, both in terms of electoral strategy and policy? How can tensions between essentialist views of ‘European values’ and the reality of mass migration be addressed through creative policies aimed at social and cultural inclusion?

Further details can be found here.

Internship

2018 FU-BEST Internship

This summer, Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Program (FU-BEST) ventured into a new field of study abroad experiences: FU-BEST Internship. We offer an 8-week full-time internship placement with companies and organizations in Berlin that is accompanied by an intercultural internship colloquium and awards 10 ECTS credits upon successful completion.
Students can explore workplaces in categories as diverse as Business, Marketing, Management, Media and Communications, Finance, Politics, Nonprofits, the Sciences or Art in German or English – German language abilities are recommended but not mandatory.
The internship starts right after our regular Spring semester but we are also accepting stand-alone participants, i.e. without completing the regular Spring semester beforehand. Students interested in this option should contact us as soon as possible about any additional logistical requirements (applying for a visa; finding accommodation etc.).

Here are the dates for the 2018 Internship:
Internship 2018: May 18 – July 13
Application Deadline: February 21, 2018 (for students admitted to the FU-BEST Spring 2018 semester)
Stand-alone Application Deadline: December 1, 2017

Please visit our website for information on fees, the required application materials and everything else connected to FU-BEST Internship -- please feel free to contact us at fubest@fu-berlin.de with questions, material requests, or comments!
 Conversation Tables
&
Coffee Hours

Turkish Coversation Table
Every Friday at 3 pm at Espresso Royale on Oregon St. Interested in learning more about Turkish culture and language? Come to the Turkish table! All levels are welcome! Facebook: University of Illinois Turkish Circle. Email: aozcan@illinois.edu

If you would like to announce your Fall 2017 conversation tables & coffee hours, please send the information to Sebnem Ozkan.
 

 

Contact

 

European Union Center
University of Illinois
328 International Studies Building MC-429
910 S. Fifth St.
Champaign, IL 61820
P: (217)265-7515
F: (217)333-6270 

http://europe.illinois.edu/

 If you would like to announce an event through the EUC e-Weekly,  please send the information by no later than the prior Thursday of the event to: 

Sebnem Ozkan | Phone: (217) 244-0570 | asozkan@illinois.edu


The European Union Center (EUC) is a
National Resource Center, funded through a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant,
and a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence funded through the European Union.
The EUC is also funded in part by a "Getting to Know Europe" grant from the Delegation of the EU to the US.