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CEMS Alumni Profiles: Daniel Ortiz  Few graduate programs give master’s candidates the chance to expand their academic training alongside an opportunity to develop and hone their professional workplace skills, but NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) offers the rare opportunity to do both in one of the world’s greatest cities.  It is my firm belief that the best scholars, researchers, and academics possess skills that go beyond disciplinary training. Extensive knowledge in methodology

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Energy and Climate: My CEMS Experience As a PhD candidate in the Department of History at NYU and an advisee of Dr. Stephen Gross, the Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), I am a participant in the CEMS network. I have had the privilege of participating in multiple events focused on global energy transitions from both a historical and contemporary perspective. From workshops in New York City to

Europe comes to New York through the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS)  CEMS offers interdisciplinary degrees for undergraduate and graduate students, which allows students, faculty, and visiting scholars to explore the varied issues, histories, societies, and cultures of the continent. The study of Europe is as complex and exciting as the continent itself. By providing a forum for faculty fellows, visiting scholars, and research affiliates to delve into the past and present of

CEMS Programming The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) annually hosts three lecture series led by members of the faculty. These series are a cornerstone of the Center’s faculty programming, central to fostering academic dialogue and intellectual exchange. For the fifth consecutive year, Professor Alexander C.T. Geppert’s “NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture” highlights research on outer space in the humanities and social sciences. Meanwhile, the CEMS European Seminar Series, led by Professor Stephen

Discovering the Mediterranean at NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies The Mediterranean has long been a meeting point of civilizations, a space where cultures intersect, and ideas traverse borders. At NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), this dynamic history and contemporary reality are examined through interdisciplinary research, faculty expertise, and diverse learning opportunities. Through classroom discussions, collaborations with global scholars, and study-abroad programs, students explore the Mediterranean as both a historical region

What is Europe? What has Europe historically meant as a concept, as an identity, and as a challenge to the nation-state? What have the boundaries of Europe been, and how has this changed over time? How and why have European leaders and citizens fashioned an integrated, democratic continent, and how have the obstacles to integration evolved over time? How have Europe’s recent crises—from refugees to the problems of the Euro—led people to reevaluate European integration,

By Sophia Rockwell, University of Notre Dame Class of 2025

The Nanovic Lublin Program highlighted the collaboration and cross-cultural exchange between American Catholic and Polish Catholic universities through religion, politics, art, literature, architecture, history, and museum curation.

By Keith Sayer

Building on a 20-year partnership with Ukrainian Catholic University, the launched the in September 2023.

By Jun Wei Lee, Notre Dame, Class of 2026

For the village of Les Milles in Aix-en-Provence, France, the question of how to remember World War II is a thorny one.

by Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge

In 2024 the Laura Shannon Prize in European Studies offered me something precious and even unexpected: a sense of community. Its greatest reward is a closer relationship with the students and scholars at Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute.

By Cecelia Swartz, University of Notre Dame It is a bright October day on Inishbofin, an island with a population of about 200 off the west coast of County Galway in Ireland, and the community has gathered at the local library branch to celebrate the opening of a new repository housing copies of archival documents. At this launch, copies of historic tax, census, birth, and marriage records are made available for attendees to examine, and

An Introduction to our special feature, Business in Politics and Society.   Since the turn of the century, there has been a strong resurgence of scholarly interest in the role of business in European politics and society. After a period in which the study of business had been pushed to the margins in many disciplines, the role of individual firms and business groups as economic, political, and social actors has once more become a matter

By Gabor Scheiring

While economic nationalism serves to pacify and incorporate national capitalists, populism works as a legitimation strategy.

The SECUREU summer school in Amsterdam welcomed students from diverse research backgrounds and in this interview series, we would like to further introduce their perspectives and work. In this interview, we introduce Leslie Molina, PhD student at the University of Glasgow.

The SECUREU summer school in Amsterdam welcomed students from diverse research backgrounds and in this interview series, we would like to further introduce their perspectives and work. In this interview, we introduce Ngeti Zwane, Doctoral Candidate at Philipps Universität Marburg in Germany.

The SECUREU summer school in Amsterdam welcomed students from diverse research backgrounds and in this interview series, we would like to further introduce their perspectives and work. In this interview, we introduce Gülce Şafak Özdemir, PhD researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.