Community Resources

CES-EUC RESOURCES

CES-EUC has two signature lectures series. "Conversations on Europe" is a forum to which we invite distinguished public figures and intellectuals to address significant and challenging issues facing Europe and its place in the world.  Papers from the lecture series are disseminated in the Michigan Papers Series. Past speakers include EU Ambassador to the United States, John Bruton; Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; Walter Van Gerven, former Advocate General of the ECJ, and former President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski,  and Ian Buruma, professor and author.

"Distinguished Lecturer on Europe." This distinguished lectureship welcomes engagements that bring students and scholars, leaders of American organizations invested in European affairs, and the public together to discuss topics introduced by our guests. Past speakers include: Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of DaimlerChrysler; Göran Therbörn, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister of Germany, Neal Ascherson, prominent British journalist, and Donatella della Porta, European University Florence.

CES-EUC lectures are now available on U-M iTunesU under "International" subject.

EUROPEAN UNION CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

The website contains a series of Business briefs that provide concise information about the European Union (EU). The EU Center of Excellence Washington, DC and the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University publishes an annual survey of jobs, trade and investment between the United States and Europe. It is the most up-to-date set of facts and figures describing the deep economic integration binding European nations to America 's fifty states. For more information on The Transatlantic Economy 2007, by Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan please contact DC centers.

EUROPEN COMMISSION DELEGATION, WASHINGTON DC

U-M FACULTY

Please see our Faculty web page for more information on U-M specialists on Europe. The page contains searchable database.

U-M LIBRARIES

The U-M Libraries, with over 8.4 million print volumes and more than 8 million microform, map, and multimedia units, comprise one of the largest research collections in the country. Print holdings related to EU member and candidate countries total more than 830,000 titles in English and more than 840,000 in other languages. The libraries together spend more than $1.8 million annually on materials directly related to current members and candidates of the EU. The overall acquisition budget remains one of highest of all US research libraries, and provides significant opportunities for additional purchases to meet the research and instructional needs of campus scholars. Eleven subject specialists coordinate collection development and user services (reference, instruction and outreach) relating to EU members and candidates. Remote access to library materials is supported for faculty, staff, and students, while in-building use is free to all, so that visitors can easily obtain full access to library holdings, databases and services.
 
Support for EU Center programs is particularly strong in several of the specialized libraries on campus. The Law Library houses one of the foremost international law collections in the world, and was the first academic library depository for the predecessors of the EU.  The Law Library automatically receives copies of all official EU documents, and also buys supporting commercial materials such as codes, treaties, court reports, and legislation from all European countries, as well as publications of relevant IGOs. The Government Documents Center holds historical censuses and statistical serials for all European countries. It is a depository for the UN, and has standing orders for a wide range of EU-related supporting materials, including electronic and print publications of OECD, the Council of Europe, and the World Bank. Research guides developed by the Law and Documents libraries direct students to a wide variety of EU-related resources, including Eur-Lex, Europa, Celex, ECLAS and Eurostat. Other campus strengths include the Map Library, which holds a complete set of topographical maps, at the largest available scale, for the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Poland. The Map Library also supports Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for a wide range of digital spatial data sets, with particular focus on major European cities. The Library's Numeric Data Services unit provides support for quantitative research on EU member countries, including data set selection, acquisition and extraction, including election returns, political behavior, international relations and public opinion data (e.g. the various Eurobarometer series).  The University Library provides access to a very wide range of searchable online news sources and other databases for research and teaching relating to the EU.  Online access to research materials on the EU is also facilitated through OAIster, a University of Michigan service that indexes open access resources from a wide variety of repositories, including the Archive of European Integration.

For more information on European and European Union holdings please contact Bryan Skib.

SUMMER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

When planning your summer, you may want to consider the Summer Language Institute.

• Increase your fluency in a second or third language.
• Acquire two terms of language study in one half-term intensive course.
• Prepare for a study abroad experience.
• Pursue upper level language courses in your spare time.
• Course descriptions, dates, times, and application materials can be found on the SLI website.