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Film Screening: Crossing the Bridge – the Sound of Istanbul
Please join us on Monday, February 23 at 6:00 pm at the Hippodrome State Theatre for this wonderful documentary film and musical journey of the city that bridges Europe & Asia. Free and open to the...
View ArticleA Greek Tragedy in the Making?
Please join us for a debate between Tom Kostopoulos and Ioannis Ziogas as they offer differing opinions on the rise of the Greek radical left party (Syriza) and the consequences of its recent electoral...
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The Wall in the 1960s
Please join us on Wednesday, March 11th at 11:45 in Keene-Flint Hall, Room 005, for “The Wall in the 1960s: East & West German Visualizations,” a talk by Dr. Frank Wolff. As Dr. Wolff will...
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After the Curtain: Post-1989 Fantastic in Poland
Please join us on Monday, March 16th, at 7:30 pm in 120 Pugh Hall for a stimulating discussion about post-1989 fantastic and science fiction in Poland led by Paweł Frelik, Marie Curie-Sklodowska...
View ArticleCES Lunchtime Symposium: Symbolic Politics and the Role of Intellectuals
Please join us on Friday, March 20th at 11:45 in the CES conference room, Turlington Hall 3312, for a talk by András Bozóki, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Visiting...
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FORTEPAN: An Open-Source Photography Archive of Everyday Life in 20th Century...
Please join us for a discussion on Friday, March 27th, at 3:00 in the Visualization Room of the Marston Science Library with András Török, founding Director of Summa Artium, a non-profit company and...
View ArticleBack in the USSR?
Please join us on April 2nd, at 5:30 in 170 Pugh Hall for this important discussion which brings leading Russia specialists together in an attempt to bring greater clarity to our understanding of the...
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Transformations in Media, Citizenship & Participation in the Post-2008 EU
Please join us for the 2015 Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Workshop: “Transformations in Media, Citizenship and Participation in the Post-2008 EU.” This exciting workshop, which brings together...
View ArticleEuropean Culture festival at Santa Fe
Please join us on Thursday, April 16th from 11:00 – 1:30 at Santa Fe’s Oak Grove for a festival of European culture, art, music, and food. Lisa Booth and Koki Mendis will be on hand to talk about the...
View Article“Erdogan’s New Turkey: An Emerging Authoritarian Power,” talk by Sinan Ciddi,...
Please join us on Tuesday, April 21st, at 11:45 in 3312 Turlington Hall for “Erdogan’s New Turkey: An Emerging Authoritarian Power,” by Sinan Ciddi, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Foreign…...
View ArticleCalling all language hipsters!
Interested in something new and exciting for the Fall? Do you like courses where you are more than just a number? Then check out the Center’s offerings in Hungarian, Polish, & Czech for Fall...
View ArticleProject GO: The ROTC Language & Culture Project
The Center for European Studies is now offering a full academic year and summer abroad immersion program in the Turkish language for UF ROTC students. Fully funded Turkish language courses… Read More
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Florida High School Language Teachers Attend Two-Week Pedagogy Course at UF
The Center for European Studies and UF Spanish Lecturers Caridad Jiménez and Kathy Dwyer-Navajas successfully designed and led this year’s Language Teacher Summer Institute (LTSI) from July 13- 24. The...
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Upcoming talk: “Turkey between East and West: Religion and Culture in a...
Join us in the Friends of the Music Room on August 25 at 6 pm!
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Kokila “Koki” Mendis
Contact Kokila Mendis University of Florida 3324 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 (352) 294-7145 kmendis@ufl.edu Office Hours By appointment only. Koki is a doctoral candidate in the Department...
View ArticleLanguages Offered by the UF Center for European Studies
The UF Center for European Studies offers beginning, intermediate and advanced language courses in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Turkish. For more information on each of these programs see below: Czech...
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Why Study the Humanities?
Because your coursework and lectures will be not only fun and interesting, they will also help you to think critically about the world we live in and the human experience! You’ll learn about riveting...
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Refugee Crisis in Europe: Facts and Contexts
The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 migrants have attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year. The majority of these refugees are Syrians, but also in the mix are migrants...
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CES Professors Discuss Refugee Crisis in Europe
Around 130 people attended a timely panel on the refugee crisis in Europe hosted by the Center for European Studies and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service in the Pugh Hall Ocora. Four CES...
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A Cholent Recipe Contest
As part of a year-long series of events about Jewish food, the Price Library of Judaica, the Center for European Studies, and the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History at the University of Florida...
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