The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Religion
Scholarly Publications
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
June 2020
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.
Legitimacy in the ‘secular church’ of the United Nations
February 2020
This article argues that how the United Nations (UN) conceptualizes legitimacy is not only a matter of legalism or power politics.
Guarding Traditions and Laws—Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, science, and religion in the age of Ottoman reform
October 2018
This article examines the religious and intellectual dynamics behind the Ottoman military reform movement, known as the New Order, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....
Other Publications
How to Think about Modi's Visit to Silicon Valley
September 2015
As Silicon Valley prepares to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Stanford historian Priya Satia argues that Indians and Americans should remember the state-abetted violence and...
Who is Charlie?
January 2015
In the aftermath of the fatal attacks on the cartoonists of Charlie Hebo, TEC affiliate faculty Cécile Alduy explores the French reaction to the violence in light of the competing ideologies of an...
News
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
August 2020
Christianity in Europe is fading. A vague and symbolic identity is replacing belief in God, belonging to denominations, and attendance at religious services. Olivier Roy documents these changes in Is...
Stanford professor sees Hagia Sophia as a “time tunnel” linking Ottomans to the Roman Empire
August 2020
Stanford history professor says conquest narratives don’t fully explain Hagia Sophia’s lasting legacy.
The Europe Center October 2016 Newsletter
October 2016
Report Published by Students Participating in The Europe Center's Undergraduate Internship Program Each summer, The Europe Center sponsors Stanford undergraduate students to complete internships...
Events
Abbasi Program's 2017 Annual Conference: "Understanding Turkey: Vision, Revision, and the Future," April 28-29 (Day 2)
March 24, 2017
Bringing together more than 25 scholars from Europe, Turkey, and the United States, the conference will explore the contemporary Turkey through the conceptual lenses of space, narrative, and affect...
Abbasi Program's 2017 Annual Conference: "Understanding Turkey: Vision, Revision, and the Future," April 28-29 (Day 1)
March 21, 2017
Bringing together more than 25 scholars from Europe, Turkey, and the United States, the conference will explore the contemporary Turkey through the conceptual lenses of space, narrative, and affect...
Joan Wallach Scott: Theorizing the Relationship between Gender and Politics
October 24, 2016
Lecture by Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F.
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...
English
People
Saumitra Jha Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Research Affiliate at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Associate Professor of Political Economy, GSB Senior Fellow, SIEPR 
