A FLAS Fellow's Semester Abroad in Amman

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Master of Arts in European Union Studies

The European Union Center at the University of Illinois offers the only Master of Arts in European Union Studies (MAEUS) program in the Western Hemisphere. Learn more here.

Nuclear Energy and Its Environmental, Policy, and Security Implications

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Conversations on Europe

Watch the collection of online roundtable discussions on different EU issues sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh.

Accelerating Climate Change Mitigation: Policy Statements on the Road to Sharm-El-Sheikh and Beyond

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Videos of Previous Lectures

Missed an EUC-hosted lecture? Our blog's video tag has archived previous EUC-sponsored lectures.

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Congratulations to Our AY 2022-23 FLAS Fellows!

The EUC congratulates our Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship recipients for the 2022-23 academic year. FLAS fellowships support undergraduate and graduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. The purpose of the FLAS program is to train students to integrate global knowledge into a future career, particularly in areas of national need, such as college or university teaching, government service, and business. Both undergraduate and graduate students from all departments and professional schools are encouraged to apply. For more info: https://europe.illinois.edu/FLAS

Graduate FLAS Fellows

Ganiyat Alli (Arabic) - History

Angela Gavic (Bosnian) - Accounting

Braden Muscarello (Turkish) - German Studies

Ben Nathan (Modern Hebrew) - European Union Studies

Brett Stallone-Dwyer (Italian) - Anthropology

Brian Yang (Bosnian) - Slavic Languages & Literatures


Undergraduate FLAS Fellows

Marina Foss (Portuguese) - Global Studies

Dylan Gunn (Arabic) - History

Lindsay Merdian (Arabic) - Political Science

John Wachala (Polish) - Computer Science


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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Welcoming Visiting Scholars José Luis Gómez-Barroso and Matteo Pasetti

José Luis Gómez-Barroso (left) and Matteo Pasetti (right)
The European Union Center warmly welcomes visiting scholars José Luis Gómez-Barroso and Matteo Pasetti. Dr. Gómez-Barroso will be affiliated with the EU Center as a Fulbright-Schuman scholar for the 2022-23 academic year. He will be working primarily on the topic of public economics in the EU but will also be helping with organizing EU Center conferences and events. Dr. Pasetti will be at the EU Center until Sept. 16. During his visit, he will examine published and archival materials related to his research interests, in particular drug use as a socio-historical phenomenon in the last decades of the twentieth century. This will be the subject of his keynote presentation for the EU Center’s fall reception on Thursday, Sept. 15. 

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Gómez-Barroso and Dr. Pasetti to the EU Center and UIUC, and see below for their bios.

 

José Luis Gómez-Barroso is a professor in the department of Applied Economics and Economic History at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – Spanish National Distance Education University). His educational background includes degrees in Economics, Law and Telecommunication Engineering. His research has focused on the foundations of the digital economy and, in particular, on the role that the public sector should play in this area. Building on this, he extended his work to Public Economics in general. He is now interested in framing the activity of the European Union institutions and bodies within the context of Public Economics.

 

Matteo Pasetti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna, where he teaches History of Mass Communication and History of Journalism at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage. He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals and he is the author, among other publications, of the books Tra classe e nazione. Rappresentazioni e organizzazione del movimento nazional-sindacalista, 1918-1922 (Carocci, Roma 2008), Storia dei fascismi in Europa (Archetipolibri, Bologna 2009), and L’Europa corporativa. Una storia transnazionale tra le due guerre mondiali (Bononia University Press, Bologna 2016).

 

His research deals with twentieth-century European history and, more specifically, the history of fascism by a comparative and transnational approach. In this field of studies, his interests include the issues of memory and public use of the past after dictatorships. He is also interested in the evolution of mass communication, public spheres, and circulation of ideas from a global perspective. His current work focuses on the topic of drug consumption in the last decades of the twentieth century as a socio-historical phenomenon.


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