LATEST NEWS & DEADLINES

• Earn credit while studying in Europe on the EU Study Tour (17th - 29th May 2026) with optional Internship Programme (1st June - 5th August). Partial funding available from JMEUCE -- application deadline: 20th December.  Details for 2026 and information on past tours can be found on the UVic Study Tour site.  Check out our flyer and contact jmeuce@dal.ca with any questions about applying.   Offered by the Canadian universities of the Network for European Studies (Canada) and the University of Victoria, this programme of guided visits provides a unique experiential learning opportunity for university students across Canada.
• WELCOMING UKRAINIAN REFUGEES IN EUROPE: THE CASE OF ROMANIA - documentary screening (rough-cut) and discussion.  ROOM CHANGE: NOW IN ROWE 1016 (NOT 1007)Q&A with filmmakers: Raluca Bejan, Associate Professor & Ioan Cocan, Dalhousie University, and discussant: Catherine Bryan, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University. All welcome.  Refreshments provided.  Why do states open their borders to some groups of refugees and not to others? When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and people began to flee the country, the hospitality of neighbouring countries towards Ukrainians was set in stark contrast to their reluctance to accommodate refugees from Africa and the Middle East. Critics suggested that Europe was treating refugees from Ukraine better than those from the Global South, and attributed this difference to race. Using Romania as a case study this film highlights the factors that might matter in the categorization of refugees as either deserving or undeserving of state protection, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, as well as geopolitically shaped historical commonalities.  Thursday 4th December 2025, 6.00 - 8.30 p.m. Room 1016, Kenneth Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Avenue. For more information: jmeuce@dal.ca.                                                               
• INVISIBLE INVASION? EUROPE'S COUNTER-STRATEGIES AGAINST RUSSIA'S HYBRID PLAYBOOK - public lecture presented by Mikhail Polianskii, Konrad Adenauer Visiting Scholar in Transatlantic Relations, Carleton University & Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.  Tuesday 25th November, 2025: 11.30-1.00 p.m. Room 3089, Kenneth Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Avenue.                                                           
• In memoriam: Finn Laursen -- The JMEUCE sadly mourns the death of Finn Laursen, who established the EU Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie and made a huge contribution as its first director.  For details of his life and legacy, please see the IN MEMORIAM ANNOUNCEMENT.
• Conversation with the Nordic Ambassadors: Cooperation between Atlantic Canada and the Nordic Region on Security, Trade and Culture - public event featuring H.E. Hlynur Guðjónsson, Ambassador of Iceland to Canada; H.E. Signe Burgstaller, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada; H.E. Nikolaj Harris, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Canada; H.E. Hanna-Leena Korteniemi, Ambassador of Finland to Canada; Mr Trygve Bendiksby, Chargé d’Affaires, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa. Hosted in collaboration with CIC-Halifax.  5.00-7.00 p.m. Monday 7th April.  Room 1009, Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie Unversity, 6100 University Avenue.   All welcome.  Refreshments and networking from 5.00.
• JMEUCE Deputy Director's opinion piece: Should Canada get closer to the EU? as part of the ECSA-C scholars' responses to the idea of EU membership for Canada. 
• Roundtable on  Canada, the European Union and the Trump Challenge - watch the EVENT RECORDING, with Ross Hornby, former Canadian Ambassador to the European Union (joining virtually); Amelia Hadfield, Founder and Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe, & Associate Vice President for External Engagement, University of Surrey; Oliver Schmidtke, Director, Centre for Global Studies, & Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, University of Victoria.  5.30-7.00 p.m., Thursday 20th March. University Hall, Macdonald Building.  Refreshments provided. This event was hosted by the JMEUCE and Centre for the Study of Security and Development as the 2025 Glyn Berry Lecture. 
• JMEUCE Director and Deputy Director in the news...See CBC's "With its U.S. alliance under pressure, could Canada join the EU?"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

• Bright Night - Baltic-Nordic Short Films: Thurs. 6th Feb. 6.00 - c. 8.00 p.m.  Room 1014, Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie Unversity, 6100 University Avenue.  Free film festival with a great line-up of shorts from eight countries.  All welcome; refreshments provided. Presented in collaboration with the embassies of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. Please contact jmeuce@dal.ca with any questions.  
• The JMEUCE welcomed delegates from the French Embassy in Ottawa and the Consulate General in Moncton for discussions (26th Nov. 2024).
• In partnership with the Department of German and FASS, a public lecture on Breaking Cassandra's Curse: Crisis Prediction through Literature with Dr. Jürgen Wertheimer, Professor Emeritus of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Tübingen. 6.30 p.m: Thurs. 17th Oct. Reception to follow. Room 1020, Rowe Building.  PRESENTATION SLIDES available here (pdf). 
• Public Lecture from His Excellency Kaspars Ozoliņš, Ambassador of Latvia to Canada on Security Developments in Europe and Russia’s War against Ukraine with a pdf of his PRESENTATION SLIDES here. Thurs. 10th Oct.  Weldon Law Building.  Hosted in collaboration with CIC-Halifax.                                                            
• 2024 Summer Institute on Migration and Identity in Europe and Canada (3rd – 14th June).  Classroom sessions for this for-credit course (POLI 3820) took place at Dal and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, which provided an unparalleled learning experience through its exhibits, displays, artifacts and oral history clips.  Specialist instructors from both sides of the Atlantic included academics and curators with extensive knowledge of, and expertise in, the field. See the Summer Institute page for the detailed syllabus and resources including most presentations, or contact jmeuce@dal.ca.
• 2024 JMEUCE Student Essay Award: for current Dal students to submit a paper on any aspect of the EU, whether the European Union as a whole or one or more EU member states.  Deadline: 30th April.  Contact jmeuce@dal.ca for more details.
• Interested in student funding for research in Europe on an EU-relevant topic? Mitacs GRA scholarships of up to $6,000 available for Dal students.  For information, e-mail jmeuce@dal.ca.