The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Culture
Scholarly Publications
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.
Heidegger Never Got Beyond Facticity
December 2019
(1) The “thing itself” of Heidegger’s thinking was Ereignis. (2) But Ereignis is a reinscription of what Being and Time had called thrownness or facticity.
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.
Other Publications
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.
The Illusions of Disillusion
June 2017
Three-quarters of 1 percent: that was the vote tally
that Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to eke out the first time he ran for the presidency of France in the early 1970s.
The Perils of a Masculine Upbringing: Pinocchio from Carlo Collodi to Walt Disney
June 2016
In 1937, the first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney was released.
Old News
Featured Graduate Student Research: Simeon Ehrlich
November 2016
Simeon Ehrlich is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and, concurrently, J.E.A. Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics at Mount Allison University.
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...
Medieval songs reflect humor in amorous courtships, Stanford scholar finds
August 2016
Medieval courtship brings to mind images of chivalrous knights worshipping fair damsels, expressing their love for their ladies in refined and poetic language.But courtship did not play out this...
Events
CANCELED - French Culture Workshop with Radhika Koul
January 22, 2020
This week's event-- Radhika Koul presents "The Drama of our World: Spectator and Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe"-- will be postponed until further notice. Looking forward, The...
The poietic mimesis of 18th c. French and Italian Literary Portraits
January 21, 2020
Literary scholars have generally been loath to analyze description as a practice and technique; as such, it has long suffered from critical disengagement.
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
Immigration and Integration Project
Two premises motivate the “Immigration and Integration” project that is able to get off the ground with seed money from the FSI Policy Implementation Lab.
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
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...
People
Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 