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It is our mission to use education, scholarship, and public outreach to engage the community with the latest issues and topics that connect Indiana and the United States with our neighbors across the pond.
Welcome to the new Across the Pond blog website! We appreciate your patience as we streamline the blog and bring you more commentary, educational materials, and other updates on Europe and the transatlantic relationship.
Sincerely, the euro team
Latest from the blog…
Our Finest Hour: HUNGARY’s 1956 “1956 Te Csillag” (György Faludy)
Professor László Borhi is the Peter A. Kadas Chair of the Central Eurasian Studies department of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Read more about his research and work on his Indiana University profile. In October and November 1956, an uprising that began in Budapest engulfed the whole country. Soon it would…
European Legend: the Beast of Gévaudan
Halloween may be past, but we hope that you love creepy European legends as much as we do. If so, gather round the screen in your favorite sweater and a steaming mug of tea—you’re in for a scare. Sure, you’ve heard about European icons Jack the Ripper, Dracula, and the Loch Ness Monster. How about the half-demon, half-goat creature, Krampus, which is so…
For Roots of Halloween Rituals, Look to Celtic Europe
Ah, Fall. The day that the temperature cools ever so slightly, we seem to be swept into a frenzy. Pumpkins dot porch fronts and bonfires are planned. We depict graveyard scenes in our yards, weave plastic cobwebs through shrubs, and try our best to erase all traces of the sprinklers and lawn chairs that adorned the grass just…
Since the end of World War II and the establishment of an enduring North Atlantic peace, we have all too often taken Europe for granted, shifting our focus to other areas of the globe that are rising in economic and geopolitical significance. The resulting expansion of our horizon of knowledge has been necessary and valuable, but we have neglected the study of Europe at our own peril. Europe is crucial to the future of the United States and, indeed, of the world.
Franklin L. Hess, Director of EURO
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