Current Issue

A Special Feature on European Art, Culture, and Politics.

• Introduction by Randall Halle

Research

• “Cosmopolitanism and Hospitality in European Refugee Narratives” by Anke S. Biendarra

• “Postmigrational Writing: The Next Generation” by Christine Ivanovic

• “Border Matters: Death, Mourning and Materiality at the European Borderlands” by Estela Schindel

• “The Role of Arts in a War-ravaged Society: Ukraine’s Re-invention of Culture Since Euromaidan” by Susann Worschech

• “Ferenc Balázs, Transylvanism, and Global Utopia, 1923-1937” by Zsuzsánna Magdó

• “The Afterlives of Refugee Dead: What Remains?” by Karen Remmler

• “Reparations and Remembrance: Determining the Future of German-Namibian Relations” by Renata Schellenberg

• “Colonial Histories at the Humboldt Forum” by Emi Finkelstein

• “Culturalist Perspectives in Social Analysis on Europe” by Timm Beichelt

• “Toward a European (Cultural) Integration Theory” by Randall Halle

Commentary

• “Reading Ahmet Haşim’s Frankfurt Travelogue in the 21st Century” by Kristin Dickinson

• “Cultural Hegemony in the Age of Trump: Adorno, Horkheimer, and Gramsci” by Christopher Impiglia

Visual Art

• “Game Over,” an art series by Maria Wasilewska

Fiction

• An excerpt from Four by Four by Sara Mesa, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore

Nonfiction

• An excerpt from Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley

Book Reviews

• Framing the Church: The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture, reviewed by Caroline Bruzelius

• Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity Among Romanian Roma, reviewed by Martin Fotta

• Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia: Place, Taste, and Community, reviewed by Giovanni Dettori

• The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military, reviewed by David Harrisville

• Stalin’s Soviet Justice: ‘Show’ Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg, reviewed by Tony Foreman

Campus

• Defi 1, reviewed by Peter Cowley

• Out There Learning: Critical Reflections on Off-Campus Study Programs, reviewed by Hélène Ducros

Campus Monthly Round-Up

• Campus Round-Up: April 2020

Editor’s Pick

• Animal Labor: A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations edited by Jocelyne Porcher and Jean Estebanez

• The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political  by Judith Butler

• Epidemics and the Modern World  by Mitchell L. Hammond