Upcoming Events
Please see our event calendar for a full list of upcoming events and registration links.
Past Events
Spring 2025
The Rise and Muta
tions of the French Far-Right
30 April, 2025 | 3 - 4 p.m. |Library of French Thought, Dwinelle 4229, UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Claire Tourmen, Researcher, UC Berkeley
Grant Durow, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
Madison Brown, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley
I am French: Métis, French Africa, and the Reconfiguration of French Citizenship in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries
7 March, 2025 | Noon - 1 p.m. | 201 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor in Feminist and Gender Studies at Stanford University.
Fall 2024
TecHype Live! A Conversation with Minister Clara Chappaz on the Future of AI Governance
November 22, 2024 | 11 AM | Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Speaker: Clara Chappaz, French Minister of AI and Digitalization
Beyond the 2024 Election: American Politics seen from France
November 19, 2024 | 3 p.m. | Library of French Thought, Dwinelle4229
Speaker: Vincent Michelot, Professor of American Politics, Science Po Lyon; Vice-President of International Relations, Ecole Normale Sup de Lyon; Former Attaché for Higher Education, French Embassy in the US
From Paris to Yerevan: Communist Armenian Women and the Post-WWII So
viet Repatriation Campaign
November 14, 2024 |4 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall, South Dr, Berkeley, CA 94720
Speaker: Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at MIT
Forming an Elite for the French Empire: Colonial Sciences at the Ecole Libre de Sciences Politiques in Paris (1880-1960)
30 October, 2024 | 3 - 4 p.m. | Library of French Thought, 4229 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Jakob Vogel, Sciences Po Paris
Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman” with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon
7 October, 2024|3 - 4:30 p.m.|142 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Rachel M'Bon, Filmmaker
Spring 2024
A European Perspective on the International Law Applicable to Cyber OperationsThursday, April 18th, 3:35 PM | 335 Berkeley Law Room
Speaker: François Delerue, IE University Law
Launch of the Center of Excellence for French and Francophone Studies featuring guest speaker David Amiel for his lecture "Between two worlds: Macron’s industrial policy from a political perspective"
Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 PM | 223 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: David Amiel, member of the French National Assembly
Fall 2023
The Neofascist Moment of Neoliberalism: Illiberal France and Beyond
Tuesday, October 17, 5 PM | Geballe Room
Speaker: Éric Fassin, Professor of Sociology at Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis
From Kiev to Brussels: Understanding the Implications of the War in Ukraine in a Broader European Context
2023 Institute of European Studies Undergraduate Conference
Friday, November 17, 1 PM | 223 Philosophy Hall
Keynote: Evan Reade, International Affairs Advisor, Office of the Lt. Governor of California
Navigating change: studying the social transformation of La Ciotat’s maritime society during the sail-to-steam transition
Wednesday, November 29th, Noon PST | Zoom lecture
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
Speaker: Kalliopi Vasilaki, Post-doc researcher, Centre of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH)
The Politics of Individualization of Employment Relationships in France and Europe
Monday, December 4th, Noon PST | 201 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Maxime Borg, European University Institute
Digital Refuge: Presenting and Preserving Refugee Narratives
Wednesday, December 13th, Noon PST | Zoom lecture
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
Speaker: Katerina Linos, UC Berkeley Law
Social Sciences Speaker Series in French
Être journaliste de terrain entre la Californie et la France: quelles évolutions du métier?
Friday, October 6, 2023 | 12 - 1pm PST | Dwinelle 4229
Speaker: Cornie Lesnes, grand reporter, correspondante du journal Le Monde à San Francisco
Pourquoi l'économie de marché est-elle mal aimée des Français?
Monday, October 20, 2023 | 12 - 1pm PST | Zoom
Speaker: David Spector, École d'Économie de Paris
Pourquoi la France est-elle si difficile à réformer?
Monday, November 13, 2023 | 4 - 5pm PST | Dwinelle 3335
Speaker: Jonah Levy, UC Berkeley Political Science Department
Les Français et leur gastronomie : aux sources d'une odsession nationale
Monday, November 27, 2024 | 12 - 1pm PST | Zoom
Speaker: Eric Birlouez, ingénieur agronome