FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.
The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.
Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.
"That Extra Something": A Reading by Aris Fioretos
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Please join the Forum on Contemporary Europe, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of German Studies for a reading and discussion of The Truth About Sascha Knisch by author Aris Fioretos.
A "biological thriller" set in the
underworlds of Weimar Berlin, Aris Fioretos's The Truth about Sascha
Knisch (Jonathan Cape,
2006; Overlook 2008) deals with the so-called "sexual question," its lures and
seductiveness, dangers and temptations, but also with the shrewd love between
two young people in a Germany at the brink of disaster.
Aris Fioretos studied at Stockholm, Paris, and Yale universities. Since 1991, he
has published over a dozen books - novels, prose poetry, and essays. He has also
edited several academic volumes and translated the works of Paul Auster,
Friedrich Hölderlin, and Vladimir Nabokov into Swedish. A past counsellor of
culture at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin, he is the recipient of several prizes
and awards, most recently from the Swedish Academy, the American Academy in
Berlin, and All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent publication is the essay
collection Das Maß eines Fußes (Hanser Verlag, 2008). In the fall, a new
novel will appear.
Jointly sponsored by the Forum on Contemporay Europe, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and Department of German Studies.
Building 260, Room 252 (German Studies Library)
Stanford University
Aris Fioretos
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Conferences
The Religion Gap: Why Europe Dechristianizes and the U.S. Remains True to the Faith
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Tocqueville's insight still holds: America and Europe are both children of the Enlightenment, but modernity has not pushed aside
religion on this side of the Atlantic as it has in the "Old World." Why the
gap, and why does it persist almost 200 years later?.
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).
Abroad, his essays and reviews have appeared in: New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Prospect (London), Commentaire (Paris). Regular contributor to the op-ed pages of Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post; Time and Newsweek.
CISAC Conference Room
Josef Joffe
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Seminars
Peaceful Coexistence or Iron Curtain? Austria, Neutrality, and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Détente, 1955-1989
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In the history of the Cold War and détente, reference is seldom made to the international relations of the small states. This volume undertakes the task of reassessing comparatively, on the basis of newly declassified sources from Western and formerly Eastern archives, the preconditions and various developments of bilateral relations across the Iron Curtain, between the USSR, Eastern Europe, and neutral but capitalist Austria. While the Soviet attitude saw neutrality as a valuable model for Western Europe and Austria as a showcase for the “peaceful coexistence” between East and West, this small country and its communist neighbors developed their own kind of Ostpolitik long before the bigger political actors had ushered in European détente.
With chapters by: Peter Bachmaier, Klaus Bachmann, Friedrich Bauer, Thomas Fischer, Michael Gehler, Andreas Gémes, David Holloway, Mikolaj Kunicki, Victor McFarland, Wolfgang Mueller, Norman M. Naimark, Hanspeter Neuhold, Anton Pelinka, Michael Portmann, Oliver Rathkolb, Erwin A. Schmidl, David Schriffl, Dieter Stiefel, Günther Stocker, Arnold Suppan, and Paul Ullmann.
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Koba, the Young Stalin: The Making of a Bolshevik
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Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of History, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
Building 200, Room 205
Ronald Suny
Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, University of Michigan; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago
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Seminars