The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Education
Scholarly Publications
Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering
November 2019
The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible science.
The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and Their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon
September 2019
The relative educational returns on colonial versus indigenous language instruction in sub-Saharan countries have yet to be decisively estimated.
The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling
April 2018
We study the short and long-term spillover effects of a pay reform that substantially increased the returns to schooling in Israeli kibbutzim.
Other Publications
Trust, Transparency, and Replication in Political Science
January 2017
Striving better to uncover causal effects, political science is amid a revolution in micro-empirical research designs and experimental methods.
Die ewige Krise der Geisteswissenschaften - und wo ist ein Ende in Sicht?
August 2015
In a ceremonial address at the Annual Meeting of the German Rectors' Conference in Kaiserlautern, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht addressed "The eternal crisis of the humanities -- is there an end in sight?"...
News
Featured Graduate Student Research: Michael Schwalbe
February 2017
Michael Schwalbe is a PhD candidate in Psychology and a researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
Featured Faculty Research: Elaine Treharne
November 2016
Elaine Treharne earned her PhD from the University of Manchester, with a year as a Procter Graduate Fellow at Princeton University.
The Europe Center October 2014 Newsletter
October 2014
The Europe Center Graduate Student Grant CompetitionCall for Proposals:The Europe Center is pleased to announce the Fall 2014 Graduate Student Grant Competition for graduate and professional...
Events
2015 Stanford-University of Vienna Conference on Innovative Experiential Pedagogy
April 10, 2015
This conference, organized by The Europe Center, Mills Legal Clinic at the Stanford Law School and the Research Center for Human Rights at the University of Vienna, will focus on practice-based...
Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion (note time change)
April 11, 2014
Mark von Hagen teaches the history of Eastern Europe and Russia, with a focus on Ukrainian-Russian relations, at Arizona State University, after teaching 24 years at Columbia University, where he...
Stanford Interdisciplinary Conference on Conscience
November 8, 2012
Conference organizer: Nancy Ruttenburg What is conscience, what was conscience, and what is its future?
Projects
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...
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Stanford-Suhrkamp Lecture and Publication Series
Stanford University and German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag are pleased to jointly sponsor the international lecture and publication series devoted to new work by Stanford faculty on...
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