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Societal Determinants of National and European Identities: 1995 and 2003 in comparison

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For many centuries, Europe had been a battleground. Finally, after World War II, a number of European leaders came to the conclusion that closer economic and political cooperation of their countries could secure peace in the region. This consensus led to the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951 with six members, Belgium, West Germany, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Since then the integration of European countries has progressed exponentially, engendering formal institutions such as the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the European Parliament. Currently, the European Union (EU) comprises already 27 member states. Yet, Europe is a patchwork of many nations with strong national, regional, ethnical, and even religious identities. Thus, in spite of the institutional proliferation of symbols of a united Europe, the strength of a European identity at the individual level and its relations to other identities have been a matter of debate. Especially, since the formation of the EU, coupled with growing immigration to and within Europe (Quillian, 1995; McLaren, 2003) gave also rise to a resurgence of nativist political movements in spite of the efforts to promote a European identity. Identities, their development, and their relation to each other are discussed within different disciplines. Their common denominator is that identities are seen as fluid, influenced by the context and dependent on the previous and expected identities. In this paper we are, thus, focusing on the effect of contextual variables at the country level on the individual affiliation to Europe and the nation and the changes between 1995 and 2003. In a twin paper, we are focusing on the processes at the individual level and the relationship between different layers of identities.

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Markus Hadler

Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

Universitat Salzburg
Akademiestraße 26, 5020 Salzburg

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Distinguished Austrian Chair Professor, Forum on Contemporary Europe (2006-2007)
Professor of Music, University of Salzburg
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Professor Andrea Lindmayr Brandl, a music professor at the Universitaet Salzburg, was visiting Stanford for the 2006-2007 academic year under the Distinguished Austrian Chair Professorship at the Forum on Contemporary Europe, within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Professor Lindmayr-Brandl is an expert in Austrian cultural history, music of the renaissance, and Schubert. She is the editor of Musicologica Austriaca and is a member of the Commission for Music Research of the Austrian Academy of Science, which is working to produce an Austrian Music Lexicon. While at Stanford, Professor Lindmayr-Brandl taught in the Department of Music, while the Department of German Studies served as her department host.

Andreas Wiebe

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law
Althanstrasse 39-45
1090 Wien

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Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor, 2007-2008
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School
Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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Andreas Wiebe, LL.M., is Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. From January through June 2008, Professor Wiebe served as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at the Forum on Contemporary Europe, during which time he taught courses in e-commerce law and intellectual property law at the Stanford Law School. Professor Wiebe co-organized the June 14 "Transatlantic Information Law Symposium," held at the Stanford Law School and presented by the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Astrid Fellner

Stanford Address:
Building 260
Room 232
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

University of Vienna Address:
Department of English and American Studies
Universitätscampus AAKH, Hof 8
Spitalgasse 2-4
A-1090 Wien

(650) 725-8646
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Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair, Forum on Contemporary Europe
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
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Astrid Fellner is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. She will serve as the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at the Forum on Contemporary Europe from January - June 2009.

Professor Fellner's course schedule:

  • COMPLIT 247A: Borderland Identities and Cultural Hybridity between Europe and America (Winter 2009)
  • COMPLIT 248A: CSI Vienna: American Culture in Austria since 1980 (Spring 2009)

Wolfgang Mueller

616 Serra Street
Encina Hall E103
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

(650) 724-8020 (650) 725-2592
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Research Scholar, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Visiting Scholar, Forum on Contemporary Europe
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Dr Wolfgang Mueller, PhD in contemporary history and Russian studies (University of Vienna), is a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Former professional affiliations include the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Canada, and the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna. Wolfgang Mueller was a visiting fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of OSCE missions to the CIS area. He teaches Russian history and politics at the University of Vienna.

Research interests: Russian and Soviet foreign policy, international relations, the Cold War, European integration. Current research projects: continuities in Russian foreign policy behavior, the USSR/Russia and European integration; the revolutions of 1989.

Wolfgang Mueller’s book on postwar Soviet policy in Austria Die sowjetische Besatzung in Österreich 1945-1955 (2005) was awarded the Richard G. Plaschka Prize. Further publications include Sovetskaia politika v Avstrii: Dokumenty iz Rossiiskikh arkhivov (with N. Naimark, A. Suppan, G. Bordiugov eds. 2005); The Austrian State Treaty 1955: International Strategy, Legal Relevance, National Identity (with G. Stourzh, A. Suppan eds. 2005); “Stalin and Austria: New Evidence on Soviet Policy in a Secondary Theatre of the Cold War,” Cold War History 6 (2006) 1; Osteuropa vom Weltkrieg zur Wende (with M. Portmann eds. 2007); “Die UdSSR und die europäische Integration,” in From the Common Market to European Union Building (M. Gehler ed. 2009); Peaceful Coexistence or Iron Curtain? Austria, Neutrality, and Eastern Europe 1955-1989 (Forthcoming).

Dr. Mueller was a visiting scholar with the Forum on Contemporary Europe from October 2008 through March 2009.

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Wake Up Call: Grünbein, Descartes, Pushkin

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Michael Eskin (Ph.D., Rutgers 1998) studied comparative literature, German, American, and Russian literature, and philosophy. Before coming to Columbia, he was a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Nabokovs Version von Puskins "Evgenij Onegin": Zwischen Version und Fiktion - eine Ubersetzungs- und fiktionstheoretische Untersuchung (Sagner 1994); Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan (Oxford University Press 2000); and Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky (Stanford University Press; forthcoming). His articles have appeared in such venues as PMLA, Poetics Today, Semiotica, New German Critique, and TLS. He has also edited special issues of The Germanic Review (77/1, 2002) and Poetics Today (25/4, 2004). Currently, he is working on two book projects: one, dealing with philosophical autobiographies; the other with poetic inscriptions of time.

Michael Eskin's areas of teaching and research are: nineteenth- through twenty-first-century literature and intellectual history; post-world war II and contemporary poetry and culture; interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to literature (ethics and literature, hermeneutics, semiotics), literary theory and criticism, the theory and practice of translation, as well as the theory of fiction and narrative.

Jointly sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of German Studies, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Comparative Literature, and the DLCL Philosophy Reading group.

 

Pigott Hall (Building 260) Room 113

Michael Eskin Columbia University Speaker
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Welches Denken wirkt innovativ? Erwin Schroedinger als Vor-Bild

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The Forum on Contemporary Europe and the leading publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag are pleased to announce the first in a series of visiting lecturers by Stanford and European authors, whose works are being published in editions by Suhrkamp, for significant impact on the worlds of scholarship and policy.

The first visiting lecture will feature Stanford Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, speaking on his new book, Geist und Materie. Zur Aktualität von Erwin Schrödinger. This event will be hosted on December 12, 2008, by Suhrkamp publishers, at their Berlin residence. Co-sponsors of this exchange include FCE, Suhrkamp Verlag, the Stanford Division of Humanities and Sciences, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Club of Germany, the German Stanford Association, and the Stanford Department of German Studies.

Suhrkamp Verlag Venue
Fasanenstrasse 26
Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Germany

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Speaker
Seminars
Stanford-Suhrkamp Lecture and Publication Series

My Staff and My Redeemer: Why Three-Quarters of West Europeans Would Elect Obama

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In Europe, even more than in the United States, Obama appears not as a politico, but as as canvas which allows the Europeans to project their fondest wishes onto a man they hardly know. Disappointment is bound to happen.

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.

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Josef Joffe Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Visiting Professor, Political Science, Stanford University; Fellow, Hoover Institution Speaker
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Adrian Daub

Building 260, Room 202

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Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
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Adrian Daub is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford, where he also directs the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Program in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Andrew W. Mellon Program for Postdoctoral Studies in the Humanities. He is the author of several books about German intellectual and cultural history, including Uncivil Unions (2012), Tristan’s Shadow (2013), and Four-Handed Monsters (2014). He has also written on popular culture and contemporary culture, including The James Bond Songs (with Charles Kronengold, 2015) and Pop Up Nation (2016). His books The Dynastic Imagination and What Tech Calls Thinking will be published in 2020. He is a frequent contributor to many national and international magazines and newspapers, including The New Republic, n+1, Longreads (United States), The Guardian (UK), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland) and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit (Germany). 

Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center
Barbara D. Finberg Director, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Director, Program in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
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