"Ethnicity in Today's Europe" conference November 8, 2007

The conference "Ethnicity in Todays Europe," jointly sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Forum on Contemporary Europe, will address the topics of change in Europe's borders and populations in an interdisciplinary manner. Participants will focus on the question: Whats new about the situation in Europe today? Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, the conference will provide a historical perspective together with contributions addressing economic, social, cultural, and political issues. Some themes that may be discussed include: how the current situation mirrors or departs from the past; the role of the media in portraying the interaction between different groups; the different perspectives of specific populations within Europe; whether Europes diversity is best described under the rubric of ethnicity, nationality, race, or some other term; similarities and differences between European nation-states with regard to diversity within their borders. Above all, participants will use their own disciplinary perspective to assess what is at stake in the interaction between peoples in Europe as the twenty-first century gets underway.

Conference speakers: Leslie Adelson, Azouz Begag, Rogers Brubaker, Salvador Card