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Inter-University Center for Japanese Language StudiesNovember 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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