January 20, 2022
On the anniversary of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Professor Lucan Way and Professor Steven Levitsky (Harvard) have published an article in Foreign Affairs: “America’s Coming Age of Instability – Why Constitutional Crises and Political Violence Could Soon Be the Norm.” View...
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December 14, 2021
CERES is the proud host of the University of Toronto’s Hellenic Studies Initiative, which offers Modern Greek language instruction, courses in Greek history, politics, and culture, and international learning opportunities with a regular summer course in Athens and Rhodes. In...
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December 6, 2021
The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) is thrilled to congratulate Lynne Viola on her receipt of a SSHRC Gold Medal. Professor Viola is among the world’s foremost historians of 20th century Russia, and her work on violence, gender, rurality, and political...
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Sam Jambovic, a student in the University of Toronto’s advanced Modern Greek language program housed at CERES, was recently featured on CTV. In the clip, he explains to the non-Greek speaking audience how to correctly pronounce the name of the...
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November 26, 2021
CERES and the Munk School hosted Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani on 22 November where an almost exclusively student audience got a unique chance to talk to a world leader about what’s ahead for Kosovo and the wider Balkans. A recent article...
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October 21, 2021
Congratulations to Catherine Lukits, the winner of the 2021 Dr. Janet Hyer Essay Prize, which recognizes exceptional achievement by a second-year CERES MA candidate in completing their Major Research Paper (MRP). The prize was established in the memory of Dr....
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October 12, 2021
Congratulations to the team of editors of Messages in the Media (editor-in-chief Oya Darici and editors Maddie Skoblo, Michael Levinson, Sofia Shatrova, Nadiya Kovalenko, and Katie Kinross) on the publication of the 2021 issue of the journal! The journal is...
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September 27, 2021
The CERES community is saddened to learn of the death of Josef Čermák, one of our program’s closest friends and supporters. Joe, as we all called him, was 96 years old. An immigrant from the former Czechoslovakia, Joe was a...
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August 3, 2021
CERES Alumna Delila Bikic has recently published a reflection on her hometown of Sarajevo available for reading here: https://opencanada.org/my-sarajevo/ Delila is a recent graduate of the JD program at Osgoode Hall Law School. Delila will be commencing her articles at...
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April 23, 2021
Congratulations to CERES Faculty Member Lucan Way, who is the recipient of the Research Excellence Faculty Scholar award for 2021 at the University of Toronto Scarborough! The award committee noted Professor Way’s outstanding research record and substantial contributions to UTSC...
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Germany: Students want to connect what they learn in the classroom to work-related, career contexts, and employers are increasingly demanding graduates...
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Freiburg: The Canadian Year in Freiburg: Discover Europe in Germany Study for a year at the University of Freiburg under the guidance...
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Bolzano: Between the months of May and July 2015, Cara interned for the Institute for Minority Rights at the European Academy...
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Berlin, Germany: 2010 marked the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt-Universität. As one of eleven German universities, the Humboldt-Universität was chosen “University of...
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Tartu, Estonia: UT is Estonia's leading centre of research and training. It preserves the culture of the Estonian people and spearheads the...
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Brussels, Belgium: The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom...
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