Social Science Research Council

SSRC connections with Europe form a key node in global partnerships and networks of collaboration and exchange; European institutions and researchers enrich the Council's programs in International Migration, Knowledge Institutions, and Public Spheres. Europe, appropriately, is studied at the Council in its relations with the rest of the world, just as in practice, the history of Europe was shaped in relation to a changing global context. The contemporary challenges and repercussions of global liberalization, international flows, and transnational media have produced a set of pan-European debates about migration and autochthony, about race, religion, and region, and about difference and discrimination. These themes are best studied as interdisciplinary and comparative problems, situated in their regional and global contexts. That is one of the goals of a new SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships (DPDF) workshop, "Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation," itself one of the five fields of the 2007 DPDF competition. In 2008, the SSRC will relaunch its European programming. For more information, contact europe@ssrc.org.