The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
History
Scholarly Publications
Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?
March 2020
Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present.
Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies
March 2020
That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has...
Text Technologies: A History
February 2020
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as...
Other Publications
Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World (Indian Ocean Studies Series) ed. Krish Seetah
June 2018
In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other...
Beyond Engaged Literature: Samir El-Youssef's The Illusion of Return
December 2017
A feature of contemporary politics is the tendency to focus primarily onnarratives , as if the story lines were more important than the events.
Here at the End of All Things: On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros
August 2017
I spent my adolescence around maps of places that didn’t exist.
Old News
The Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professorship at Stanford
February 2017
The history of the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at Stanford begins with the U.S.
Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia
January 2017
What price do we pay for civilization?
Q&A with Professor Naimark on the History of Genocide
December 2016
Sixty-eight years later, acts of genocide still occur, despite international efforts to prevent them.
Events
Michel Serres: Thinking in Figures
January 17, 2020
After a long period of under-appreciation, Michel Serres's prescient and unique writing is now beginning to receive the attention it has long deserved.
Book Talk "Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty" with Norman M. Naimark
November 13, 2019
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Mass Media and Cultural Homogenization: Broadcasting the American Dream on the Radio
October 8, 2019
Part of the Economic History Seminar Series, co-sponsored by The Europe Center.
Projects
The Contemporary
This project examines the “contemporary” with a focus on defining moments such as: 1945, 1973, 1989, and 2001.
English
Debating History, Democracy, Development, and Education in Conflicted Societies
The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) has launched a multi-year collaborative project with research institutes in...
English
History, Memory and Reconciliation
This series will examine scholarly and institutional efforts to create new national narratives that walk the fine line between before and after, memory and truth, compensation and reconciliation,...
English
Multimedia
The World Heritage Bluff: Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos
May 2019
Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos, Sabine Ladstätter discusses how a consciousness for cultural heritage, apart from touristic-economic incentives and beyond national (in many cases regional) borders, can be created.Sabine...
The Future of Europe
April 2019
In her April 4th talk at The Europe Center, Professor Kathleen McNamara discussed the future of Europe and the EU in comparative historical terms, showing that such challenges are nothing new when governing power is centralized. Kathleen R....
People
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
