July 1st, 2008
Austria and Central Europe Since 1989: Legacies and Future Prospects
This conference on Austria and Central Europe Since 1989: Legacies and Future Prospects is the third in the series of biannual international conferences to study the political and cultural landscape of Austria and Central Europe since 1945. Read more »
June 2nd, 2008
Transatlantic Academy project on 'Turkey and Its Neighbors: Prospects for the Transatlantic Relationship'
The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates to serve as resident fellows. A joint project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy is located at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. The Academy brings together scholars from Europe and North America to work on a single set of issues facing the transatlantic community. It is an interdisciplinary institution which is open to all social science disciplines. Fellows will be resident for ten months beginning in October 2009. The Academy welcomes applications from scholars working on the theme of 'Turkey and Its Neighbors: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship.' Read more »
May 5th, 2008
Fellowship on European identity and cultural studies at University of Bonn Center for European Integration Studies
The Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn invites applications for the ZEI Fellowship from researchers with expertise in European Studies in all disciplines. The fellowship is awarded for a period of up to 12 months starting October 1st, 2008. Read more »
March 13th, 2008
The Failures of Identification and Response to Trafficking of Women in Eastern Europe
Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Stanford Law School. 
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December 14th, 2007
Save the Date: Trafficking of Women in Post-Communist Europe conference, April 18, 2008
This international conference will examine the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, a trade that has rapidly expanded since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. The conference will bring together scholars, policy experts, government officials and NGO analysts to discuss the issue from the economic, legal and human rights perspectives. Special attention will be devoted to strategies to combat the problem and address the needs of the victimized females.
October 4th, 2007
Save the Date: 'Ethnicity in Today's Europe' Conference - November 7-9 at Stanford University
AnnouncementHeadlines today blaze with stories about the fate of Europe. There is a sense, both in Europe and around the world, that a sort of "tipping point" has been reached. As the ongoing process of unification redraws Europe's borders, as the populations of major European cities become more and more diverse, the question of ethnicity is at the forefront of many of the most important debates on the continent. The conference "Ethnicity in the New Europe" at Stanford will address this topic in an interdisciplinary manner. 3 papers available
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June 1st, 2007
Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region
The Forum on Contemporary Europe is pleased to announce the inauguration of its research and public dissemination program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region. With generous support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Forum's Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region is able to act on long term plans to launch research and public programs on Sweden and the pressing issues of the Scandinavian and Baltic region. Special emphasis will be placed on developments in Sweden and the region's trans-Atlantic relations, and on the evolution of domestic and international policy, culture, science, trade, and law in emerging global relations.
Anna Lindh Fellowship
The Forum on Contemporary Europe, at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Anna Lindh Fellowship for the study of Scandinavia, the Baltic region and northern Europe's role in trans-Atlantic relations. The fellowships are part of the Forum's new Sweden, Scandinavia, and Baltic region program whose aim is to promote research on this region. The Anna Lindh Fellowship is designed to bring fellows from Sweden to Stanford University for short periods of research, library and archive consultation, and collaboration with Stanford faculty and community. Read more »
May 15th, 2007
Laporta touts Barca activism
Joan Laporta, the president of Futbol Club Barcelona, talked to an overflowing crowd at the Arrillaga Family Sports Center on May 7, 2007 about his organization's role in global sports and society. 
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February 23rd, 2007
Advanced Graduate Student Fellowships
The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) is pleased to announce the availability of advanced graduate student fellowships to support short-term research at the University of Vienna in Austria. The FCE graduate student fellowships are part of the Stanford-Austria scholarly exchange and public event program hosted jointly by FCE at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the University of Vienna. Read more »
February 21st, 2007
FSI Director Blacker discusses trans-Atlantic relations at Vienna's Renner Institut
On February 7, in Vienna, FSI Director Chip Blacker gave a distinguished scholar lecture on "U.S.-European Relations after the Iraq War." The talk, which was held at the Renner Institut and co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, focused on critical relations between Europe and the U.S. that extend beyond the current administration in Washington. paper available
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November 6th, 2006
New Austrian & Central European Program
The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) is proud to announce a new program to advance relations between the United States and Austria and Central Europe. In collaboration with the University of Vienna, the Austrian & Central European Program will bring together students and faculty from Stanford University and the University of Vienna to broaden understanding and research. Read more »
November 3rd, 2006
The Stanford Daily: For Europe, a call to unite
In the News: The Stanford Daily on November 2, 2006Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament spoke to a crowd of over 150 on the Stanford Campus on November 1, 2006. Cohn-Bendit spoke to the cultural differences facing Europe and the future challenges of uniting nation-states. The Stanford Daily covers Cohn-Bendit's lecture sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. Read more »
September 1st, 2006
New Name for the European Forum
The European Forum takes the new name Forum on Contemporary Europe. Read more »
August 31st, 2006
New Assistant Director of the Forum on Contemporary Europe
The Forum on Contemporary Europe announces its new Assistant Director, Roland Hsu. Read more »
June 15th, 2006
European Forum 2005-06 Year Update
The European Forum at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University had an eventful and exciting 2005-06 academic year. We organized almost thirty seminars, workshops and other events on cultural, economic and political issues affecting Europe, its relations with the United States and its role in the world. Read more »
November 8th, 2005
European Forum Fall 2005 Update
The 2005-06 Academic Year got off to an exciting start for the European Forum. Following the recent terror attacks in Madrid and London, the Forum plans to be organizing a variety of events on the manners in which European countries and institutions are facing the threat of terrorism. In the first weeks of the Fall Quarter the European Forum hosted several European politicians, academics and authors. Read more »
December 7th, 2004
Germany after the Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and its Consequences
Press ReleaseThe workshop with this title was organized on November 19-20 by the European Forum at SIIS and it gathered leading German historians from Stanford, other U.S. universities, and from Germany. The workshop will produce an edited volume next year, said Amir Eshel, Stanford professor and co-convenor of the European Forum. Read more »
A New Beginning? What the United States Can Do with Europe Now
On November 16, the European Forum at SIIS hosted a lecture by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The lecture marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the election of the 44th President of the United States. Read more »
February 20th, 2004
Historian Naimark offers perspective on proposed memorial to expelled Germans
In a Jan. 21 article published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SIIS senior fellow and historian Norman Naimark offered his perspective on the emotions and issues raised by a foundation that seeks to create a research center and museum in Berlin dedicated to studying forced population transfers in 20th-century Europe. Such forced transfers included the expulsion of 15 million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.
Sentiment against a memorial to German victims is particularly high in Poland and the Czech Republic, where, Naimark noted, the treatment of Germans at the fall of the Third Reich showed all the signs of being an ethnic cleansing that was in part a reaction to Nazi atrocities. Naimark, the Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies, suggested that the expulsion of the Germans deserves further study, and that more public discussion is needed before deciding whether to build the center and museum. 
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