The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Culture
Scholarly Publications
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
August 2018
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M.
Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds
August 2018
When did European modes of political thought diverge from those that existed in other world regions?
Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla’s Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings
August 2018
In 1670 the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) devised an entirely new way of depicting fossils when he wrote and illustrated his Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670–1671), which...
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.
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
(Dis)figuring War: Literature and the Arts, 1918-2018 (Day 2)
November 8, 2018
At 11am on November 11, 1918, the armistice that effectively ended the First World War was signed.
(Dis)figuring War: Literature and the Arts, 1918-2018 (Day 1)
November 8, 2018
At 11am on November 11, 1918, the armistice that effectively ended the First World War was signed.
Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint Germain D'Anxure, 1730-1895
November 8, 2018
Romain Wacziarg is a professor of economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
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
People
Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 