Issue 34 | June 2020

A Special Feature, Imagining, Thinking, and Teaching Europe.

• Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros and Louie Dean Valencia-García

Research

• “Placing Islam in European Studies” by John Bowen

• “An Empty Spain Filled with Ideas?” by Jeremy MacClancy

• “The Europeanness of British Cinema: Considering ‘National’ Cinemas from a Continental Perspective” by Neil Archer

• “Europe in a Global Context: Geographical Perspectives” by Rafael de Miguel González

• “Imagining Europe, Citizenship, and Scholarship in the Time of HIV/AIDS” by Louie Dean Valencia-García

• “Envisioning the Past to Rule the Future: Post-imaginaries and European Existence” by Stefanie Boulila

• “From Past Practices to Future Directions in European Studies” by Hélène B. Ducros

• “Between Foucault and Gramsci: A Critical Analysis of European Integration” by Vanessa Bilancetti

Commentary: A Roundtable on European Integration

• Introduction by Mark Vail

• “Possible Scenarios for European (Dis)Integration Future” by Angélica Saraiva Szucko

• “A Taxation Point of View: Towards a New Level of Integration in the European Union” by Mihaela Tofan

• “The Lasting Impact of the Breakup of Yugoslavia” by Nikolina Zenovic

• “Illusory Enlargement of the European Union” by Milos Rastovic

Visual Art

• “Dutch Landscapes,” a series by Mishka Henner

• “El Autobús,” a series by Sol Calero

Fiction

• An Excerpt from Jean-Luc Persecuted by C.F. Ramuz, translated from the Swiss by Olivia Baes

Interviews

• “Putting the ‘Critical’ in Geographies of Education: An Interview with Dan Cohen, Alice Huff, and Nicole Nguyen” by Hélène B. Ducros

Book Reviews

• Fatih Akin’s Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, reviewed by Kristin Dickinson

• Engineered to Sell European Émigrés and the Making of Consumer Capitalism, reviewed by Joseph Malherek

• Die Gesellschaft des Zorns Rechtspopulismus im globalen Zeitalter, reviewed by Elisabeth Krimmer

Book Review Roundtable: Studying Europe Through the Lens of European Catholicism

• Introduction by Hélène Ducros

• Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe, reviewed by Eilish Gregory

• Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia Patterns of Localization, reviewed by Michel Chambon

• Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy, reviewed by Natalia Núñez-Bargueño

Campus Spotlight: Europa-Universität Viadrina

• Introduction by Hélène Ducros

• “Europe at its Borders, Europe at its Heart: Critical European Studies at the Viadrina” by Estela Schindel and Timm Beichelt

• “European Studies at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder): Critical, Interdisciplinary, and International” by Kerstin Hinrichsen

• “Pensées Françaises Contemporaines: An Interdisciplinary Program Promoting French Approaches in the Social Sciences and Humanities” by Elsa Tulmets

• “Syllabus: Europe: Imperial, Colonial, Transnational? An Introduction to Modern European History” by Clara Frysztacka

• “Syllabus: The ‘European Idea:’ Historical Contexts, Debates, and Mental Maps on Europe as a Concept” by Clara Frysztacka

Campus

• “From French Studies to World War II and Beyond: A Reminiscence” by Richard Golsan

• “Medievalism, Nationalism, and European Studies: New Approaches in Digital Pedagogy” by Esther Cuenca

• “Georgi Gospodinov’s The Story Smuggler: Teaching Europe through Contemporary Experimental Literature” by Nicholas Ostrum

• “The Future of European Studies in Canada: What the ‘Great Outdoors’ Can Teach Us Through Experiential Place-Based Learning” by Conny Burian

• “Language and Culture Across Borders and in the Classroom: A Conversation with Olimpia Muñoz-López, Victoria Hernández Pando, Ana Griñon, Niamh Kelly, and Jakob Romine” by Louie Dean Valencia García

• “From Dublin to New York: The Globalization of European Studies” by Sara McGeough

• “Dreams of Cake, Gold, and Freedom in Postwar Romania” by Kevin Michot

• “Syllabus: The Myths of Western Civilization: Decolonizing and Queering European History” by Louie Dean Valencia-García

• “The Myths of Western Civilization: Decolonizing and Queering European History” by Texas State Honors Students and Louie Dean Valencia-García

• “Syllabus: Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and Geographies of Pan-Europe (I)” by John Pickles

• “Syllabus: Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and Geographies of Pan-Europe (II)” by John Pickles

Campus Monthly Round-Up

• Campus Round-Up: June 2020

Editor’s Pick

• Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection by Brandon B. Derman

• Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch

Published on June 8, 2020