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Connect directly with world leaders in the European Affairs program - recent students met with ambassadors from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Learn from diplomatic alumni how to navigate global affairs job interviews, and gain insights into topics like Russia's historical repression with award-winning Prof. Rob Austin.

Learn more about European Affairs via the link in bio - available as both a Major and a Minor program

Thinking about graduate studies?
Apply now to join our MA program in European & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Applications are now accepted for Fall 2025

Fresh perspectives on a changing Europe 🌍✨

CEES hosted this year’s European Affairs Capstone Seminar undergraduate conference: “Old Continent, New Conflicts: A New Europe for Illiberal Times.” Fourth-year students from EUR498H1S brought their research to life, sharing insights with peers, family, and faculty.

Thank you to our dedicated panel chairs for guiding the conversation, and congratulations to our graduating students 🎓 — we can’t wait to see where you go next!

Stepping into history where it’s still being written 🇭🇺✨
As part of our experiential learning course, CEES graduate students explored the Hungarian Parliament today—connecting classroom debates to the spaces where politics continue to unfold. History, politics, and place—connected in real time.
#ExperientialLearning #CEESabroad #Budapest #HungarianParliament #globalclassroom

Stepping into history where it’s still being written 🇭🇺✨
As part of our experiential learning course, CEES graduate students explored the Hungarian Parliament today—connecting classroom debates to the spaces where politics continue to unfold. History, politics, and place—connected in real time.
#ExperientialLearning #CEESabroad #Budapest #HungarianParliament #globalclassroom

Stepping into history where it’s still being written 🇭🇺✨
As part of our experiential learning course, CEES graduate students explored the Hungarian Parliament today—connecting classroom debates to the spaces where politics continue to unfold. History, politics, and place—connected in real time.
#ExperientialLearning #CEESabroad #Budapest #HungarianParliament #globalclassroom

Stepping into history where it’s still being written 🇭🇺✨
As part of our experiential learning course, CEES graduate students explored the Hungarian Parliament today—connecting classroom debates to the spaces where politics continue to unfold. History, politics, and place—connected in real time.
#ExperientialLearning #CEESabroad #Budapest #HungarianParliament #globalclassroom

Stepping into history where it’s still being written 🇭🇺✨
As part of our experiential learning course, CEES graduate students explored the Hungarian Parliament today—connecting classroom debates to the spaces where politics continue to unfold. History, politics, and place—connected in real time.
#ExperientialLearning #CEESabroad #Budapest #HungarianParliament #globalclassroom

Our CEES students have arrived in Budapest for an immersive, experiential learning workshop that brings history to life. This intensive field course is more than a classroom—it’s a journey through the past, grounded in place and perspective. #CEESabroad #ExperientialLearning #HistoryInAction #StudentExperience

The Centre for European and Eurasian Studies is thrilled to congratulate alum Thomas Law (class of 2025) on winning the 2025 Best Graduate Student Essay Prize by the Canadian Association of Slavists. His paper, “Soccer under state socialism: propaganda protest or non-political?” was submitted to the Student Essay Contest by Professor Lilia Topouzova. Thomas wrote the paper when he was enrolled in Prof. Topouzova’s graduate course HIS1205H ‘The Communist Experience in Central and Eastern Europe.’ Our sincere congratulations!

Thinking back to last summer as a new cohort of CEES students gets ready for their own immersive field course. In just a few weeks, the CEES Class of 2027 will head to Budapest and Brno for an experiential learning workshop that blends seminar discussions, museum visits, and on‑site explorations. This journey will bring Central Europe’s complex history to life.

Grateful to our donors for making opportunities like this possible.

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

CEES graduate students participated in an international workshop, Making Bad History, as part of a course taught at the Munk School’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Through a series of intensive presentations spanning two days, the workshop explored how manipulated or contested historical narratives shape regional identities, influence state policy, and structure collective memory across diverse geopolitical settings from Central and Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Russia, and the United States.

At the heart of the course was a set of fundamental questions:
What constitutes “bad history”?
How and why is it produced?
And what is the responsibility of historians when public narratives contradict academic knowledge?

A bold and innovative approach to analyzing history,across all sessions a clear throughline emerged: bad history is powerful because it is persuasive, emotive, and deeply embedded in public space and everyday life.

Read more via link in bio

#uoft #uoftstudents #uoftstudentlife #toronto

Meet Iveri, a PhD researcher from Lund University, Sweden, visiting U of T through the International Visiting Graduate Student (IVGS) program.

During his stay, he’s is based at the Centre for European & Eurasian Studies to advance his graduate research on European Union enlargement—especially the stalled accession negotiations facing several candidate states. The Centre’s expertise and resources are helping him deepen and refine this work.

Our faculty and staff at CEES shares what they are looking forward to do in the summer as the semester nears the end. What are your plans for the summer this year?

Work Study positions at CEES offer hands-on experience in how academic programs operate: both within the department and across the Munk School.

Students get the chance to work closely with faculty, staff, visiting scholars, alumni, and fellow students, gaining insight into the planning and promotion of events while building strong connections within the community.

If you are interested in applying, all Work Study positions are posted on the CLNx website.

What stories become preserved in archives, and whose voices remain absent? How do community archives shape collective memory?

In February, CEES and Munk students enrolled in the course “Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond” taught by Dr. Karolina Koziura explored these questions through a series of field visits to the Archives of Ontario, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada, and St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI). 

Meeting archivists, scholars, and community leaders, students engaged directly with materials documenting the histories of refugees, migrants, and Central and Eastern European diasporic communities in Toronto.

What stories become preserved in archives, and whose voices remain absent? How do community archives shape collective memory?

In February, CEES and Munk students enrolled in the course “Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond” taught by Dr. Karolina Koziura explored these questions through a series of field visits to the Archives of Ontario, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada, and St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI). 

Meeting archivists, scholars, and community leaders, students engaged directly with materials documenting the histories of refugees, migrants, and Central and Eastern European diasporic communities in Toronto.

What stories become preserved in archives, and whose voices remain absent? How do community archives shape collective memory?

In February, CEES and Munk students enrolled in the course “Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond” taught by Dr. Karolina Koziura explored these questions through a series of field visits to the Archives of Ontario, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada, and St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI). 

Meeting archivists, scholars, and community leaders, students engaged directly with materials documenting the histories of refugees, migrants, and Central and Eastern European diasporic communities in Toronto.

What stories become preserved in archives, and whose voices remain absent? How do community archives shape collective memory?

In February, CEES and Munk students enrolled in the course “Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond” taught by Dr. Karolina Koziura explored these questions through a series of field visits to the Archives of Ontario, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada, and St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI). 

Meeting archivists, scholars, and community leaders, students engaged directly with materials documenting the histories of refugees, migrants, and Central and Eastern European diasporic communities in Toronto.

What stories become preserved in archives, and whose voices remain absent? How do community archives shape collective memory?

In February, CEES and Munk students enrolled in the course “Violence, Justice, and Social Change in Ukraine and Beyond” taught by Dr. Karolina Koziura explored these questions through a series of field visits to the Archives of Ontario, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, the VEMU Estonian Museum of Canada, and St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI). 

Meeting archivists, scholars, and community leaders, students engaged directly with materials documenting the histories of refugees, migrants, and Central and Eastern European diasporic communities in Toronto.