The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
History
Scholarly Publications
Authenticity, Complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish Literature
July 2018
Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and their critics embraced the notion that their work displayed an affinity to Russian and Yiddish literature, especially to the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
May 2018
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities.
How England Fell off the Map of Voltaire's Enlightenment
April 2018
Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation (Lettres philosophiques) have left the indelible impression that the French philosophe was fundamentally marked by his exposure to English thought...
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.
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
Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, Exchanges (Day 2)
April 18, 2018
This is day 2 of the two-day conference presented by The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), and the Centre d'études...
Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century: Crusade, Networks, Exchanges (Day 1)
April 18, 2018
This is day 1 of the two-day conference presented by The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), and the Centre d'études...
Catalan Poetry: Poetry recital, books, and Roses
April 11, 2018
Right after Albert Serra’s talk, come to celebrate the Day of the Book & Rose, a Catalan Cultural and Literary Festival, coinciding with the anniversary of Shakespeare’s and Cervantes’ death....
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
People
Karl Eikenberry Professor of the Practice Fellow, S-APARC, Core faculty, CISAC, Affiliate, CDDRL, Affiliate, TEC 
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
