The BENELUX Program at the Institute of European Studies was established in 2015. It supports a wide array of scholarly, cultural, professional and educational activities to encourage cooperation between Berkeley and Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, with the following objectives:
- Strengthen Berkeley’s academic, intellectual and institutional ties to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg;
- Support graduate and undergraduate teaching and research about topics relating to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, both from a contemporary and a historical perspective;
- Support study abroad and internship programs for Berkeley students in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg;
- Support the book collections dealing with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in UC Berkeley’s Main Library;
- Cooperate with other research centers on the Berkeley campus to support teaching and research on parts of the world with a Dutch or Belgian colonial history, such as Indonesia, South Africa, Suriname, and the Democratic Republic of Congo;
- Support interdisciplinary research that fosters the transatlantic connections between the BENELUX countries and the United States;
- Support the teaching of the BENELUX languages on the Berkeley campus, Dutch, French, German and Luxembourgish;
- Provide a platform for conferences, colloquia and public lectures on Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in order to disseminate knowledge of and interest in the BENELUX countries in California.
Contact
Jeroen Dewulf, Director
jdewulf@berkeley.edu