IES Director Jeroen Dewulf and Gikas Hardouvelis
IES welcomed Gikas A. Hardouvelis to campus. Mr. Hardouvelis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley and was the Minister of Finance (June 2014 – 27 January 2015) in the Greek government under Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. As Greece’s last Minister of Finance before the Syriza-led government under Alexis Tsipras, Mr. Hardouvelis didn’t hide his concern over the radical change in policy in his country.
IES hosted a conference entitled “Bridging the Atlantic Abyss: Continental Platform Expansion, Research and Development of Ocean Based Technologies,” during which Portugal’s involvement in ocean politics was discussed. The Institute was pleased to welcome Portugal’s Secretary of State of the Sea, Professor Manuel Pinto de Abreu, as the keynote speaker.
German Bundestag Member Jürgen Hardt visited the Institute for European Studies to give a talk about Germany’s transatlantic relationship to the US. In his talk Mr. Hardt, the coordinator of transatlantic German-American relations, highlighted the importance of the European-American friendship in today’s international order.
Alexander Drechsel, Dirk Stockmans, IES Director Jeroen Dewulf, Eu Fellow Francisco Baltasar Garcia Moran, Javier Hernández Saseta and BLC Director Rick Kern
Four accomplished staff members of the EU's Interpretation and Translation Services visited campus to deliver a series of lectures on multilingualism in the European Union. The speakers covered a variety of topics ranging from the policy implications of multilingualism to the rapidly advancing technological support available to translators, and their professional experience was a valuable addition to their analyses.
Speakers Marion Fourcade (Sociology), Hatem Bazian (Near Eastern Studies), Jeroen Dewulf (IES), Robert Alter (Center for Jewish Studies), Saba Mahmood (Anthropology), Edward Wasserman (School of Journalism) and moderator Tyler Stovall (History)
IES convened a special panel discussion to discuss the terrorist attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, as well as the subsequent kosher market shooting on January 9. The panel consisted of a diverse group of prominent academics from various disciplines,
Eleftherios Mikros, Christos Papadimitriou, Gérard Roland and Jeroen Dewulf
IES moderated a discussion analyzing the results of the 2015 Greek Elections on February 6. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies, sought to contextualize the recent win of the leftist party Syriza in that country and examine its effect on the ongoing Greek debt crisis.
IES Director Jeroen Dewulf, speaker Roger Chickering and Mrs. Norma Feldman
This year's Feldman Lecture speaker was Roger Chickering, Professor Emeritus of German History at Georgetown University, who delivered a lecture entitled “Imperial Germany’s Peculiar War, 1914-18”. The lecture was the culmination of a series hosted by the institute on the centenary of World War I, and was held in the Heyns Room of Berkeley's Faculty Club.
Consul-General of Luxembourg Georges Schmit, Professor Sonja Kmec and IES Director Jeroen Dewulf
IES hosted a lecture entitled “Europe's New Chief Executive: Jean-Claude Juncker’s Journey from Prime Minister to President of the European Commission.” The speaker for the evening was Professor Sonja Kmec, an associate professor of history at the University of Luxembourg who is currently a visiting lecturer at Department of German at UC Berkeley, teaching a class on the development of Luxembourgian identity in a European context.
Former President of the European Parliament Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering visited IES to deliver a talk entitled "Europe: Player or Loser?" Dr. Pöttering, the longest-serving member of the European Parliament, has represented the Christian Democrats continuously since the first European elections in 1979. His talk was arranged in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of which Dr. Pöttering has been chairman since 2010
IES hosted a panel discussion titled "100 Years Later: What Effect Remains from WWI?". The event, co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute and moderated by Monika Bäuerlein, award-winning editor-in-chief of the magazine Mother Jones, brought together three noted experts on the period to consider the war's continuing effects at the centenary of its start.
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