Issue 31 | January 2020

Research

• “Free Speech Defenses and the Far Right: The Cases of Tommy Robinson, Geert Wilders and Milo Yiannopoulos” by William Allchorn

• “On the Problem of Reactionary Nonsense at the Bottom of the Web” by Marc Tuters

• “Far-Right Media Ecology in Norway” by Sindre Bangstad

• “To Explain, to Understand, or to Tell the Gilets Jaunes?” by Benjamin Tainturier

Commentary

• “Post-Imperial Permutations of the Hong Kong Protests” by Robert Kramm

• “Taking Stock of the Explanatory Power of Ideas” by Christina Zuber

• “Reviewing Māori Migration: Greg Semu and the Imperial Gaze” by Jenny Barnett

• “European Integration Theory and Brexit – A Fairytale no Longer?” by Diogo Magalhaes

Sponsored Research

• “Opera, Exhibitions, and Empire: Czech Music and Identity on Display” by Christopher Campo-Bowen

Interviews

• “Forging Feminist Futures: An Interview with Alex Martinis Roe” by Kathryn Crim

Visual Art

• “Enshroud,” an art series by Medina Dugger

Fiction

• The Teacher by Michal Ben-Naftali, translated from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir

Nonfiction

• “A Story Between Two Stories About a Knife” by Melanie Evans, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel

Reviews

• Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland: Upper Silesia, 1848—1960  reviewed by Brian Gebhart

• A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism reviewed by Christoph Dieckmann

• The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence reviewed by Maboula Soumahoro

• Welfare and the Great Recession: A Comparative Study reviewed by Anton Hemerijck

• New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory. Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship reviewed by José Luis Fernández Castillo

Campus Spotlight: University of Amsterdam

• “European Studies at the University of Amsterdam: Lectures in English, Seminars in English or Dutch” by Carlos Reijnen

• “The Unfinished History of Europe: An interview with Robin de Bruin” by Louie Dean Valencia-García

• “Syllabus: European Integration” by Claske Vos and Robin de Bruin

• “Syllabus: Economic and Legal Integration of Europe” by P.W. Zuidhof

• “Syllabus: Race, Rights, and Humanity in European History” by Boyd van Dijk

Open Campus

• Dispatch: “Building Sustainability through Collaboration: The Trillium Inter-institutional Workshop on Teaching Sustainability” by Christopher Paul, Tirupapuliyar Damodaran, Noelle Wyman Roth, Laurell Malone, and Charlotte Clark

• CES-Sponsored Student Research: “More than Memory: Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe” by Madison Jackson

• CES-Sponsored Student Research: “Women in Red: Femininity and Womanhood in the Soviet Union” by Shayna Vayser

Campus Monthly Round-Up

• Campus Round-Up: January 2020

Editor’s Picks

• The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer by Meryle Secrest

• Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth  by Julia Lynch

• 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe by James Mark, Bogdan C. Iacob, Tobias Rupprecht, and Ljubica Spaskovska

• Precarious Hope Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey by Ayşe Parla,

• Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking by Cord J. Whitaker

• Analytische Rechtsphilosophie  edited by  by Felix Koch, Amir Mohseni, David Schweikard