The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
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Scholarly Publications
Thus Spoke Kubrick:“Guide Pieces,” Modes of Citation and the Rise of the Temp Track (Chapter in "After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy")
February 2020
When it came to how movies sounded, Stanley Kubrick was of a particular moment, but he seized that moment in a unique way.
Text Technologies: A History
February 2020
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as...
The Underwater Imagination: From Environment to Film Set, 1954–1956
April 2019
The 1940s and 1950s were a revolutionary era in both access to and imagination of the underwater environment in the most modernized nations of the globe.
Other Publications
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.
Wer hilft den Opfern?
August 2011
Der diesjährige "Freedom in the World"-Bericht des Forschungsinstituts "Freedom House" weist bereits zum fünften Jahr in Folge auf einen alarmierenden Rückgang von Freiheit, Demokratie und Achtung...
News
Joshua Landy on the radio show "Philosophy Talk," celebrating its 500th episode
May 2020
As Philosophy Talk reaches 500th episode, the well-loved radio show discusses how humanities can help during the pandemic
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.
Anti-Semitism surge in Europe reflects loss of values, historical awareness, says Stanford scholar
September 2014
European leaders need to speak out more strongly against the escalation of anti-Semitism, a Stanford professor says."They should be willing to enforce the law," said Russell Berman, a Stanford...
Old Events
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....
Albert Serra: Paradigms of Change in Contemporary Cinema
April 11, 2018
Claiming that Contemporary Cinema is currently in its most interesting creative moment since the 60s, laureate Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra will discuss its evolution throughout the 21st Century...
Disinformation Campaigns in Europe
January 30, 2018
Vera Zakem has been leading work at CNA Center for Stability and Development on how Russia and other actors use propaganda and disinformation to influence and target populations in Europe.
Projects
The Contemporary
This project examines the “contemporary” with a focus on defining moments such as: 1945, 1973, 1989, and 2001.
English
A Status Report from the Software Decompilation Battle
A source of sores for software copyright owners in the European Union and the United States?For traditional media, such as novels, copyright represents a “bargain” between the individual author and...
English
Democracy in the European Union
This project discusses visions of democracy, and analyzes and determines criteria for the evaluation of the democratic character of political systems.
English
People
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution