Europe & Beyond Emory U & GSU

The Europe & Beyond Mission Statement

Our vision of Europe is expansive: its cultural geography extends from Western Europe across the Mediterranean to the far reaches of Siberia, from the ancient to the contemporary post-colonial world. We imagine Europe as a matrix that encompasses rich and complex histories of cultural, economic, and political life. Since European expansion has acted upon social practices and discourses in all parts of the world, we encourage our participants to look beyond continental borders and analyze patterns of transnational interaction between European and non-European cultures in Asia, Africa, North and South American, and the Caribbean.