Heike Friedman (GHI West Program Coordinator) with IES Visiting Scholar Philipp Trein
On March 20th, Josef Philipp Trein (IES Visiting Scholar and Senior Researcher at the Department of Political, Historical and International Studies at the University of Lausanne) gave a lecture on the coevolution of health care and public health to an audience of around twelve attendees. Drawn from his new book project, Trein’s talk examined these two topics from a comparative perspective, using a variety of sources for historical context.
IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome with Consul General Pierre Franck
On March 15th, Pierre Franck, Consul General of Luxembourg in San Francisco and Executive Director of the Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office, visited the Institute to give a lecture titled, “Space Resources in Luxembourg: Exploring New Frontiers.” The talk focused on Luxembourg’s space exploration initiatives and its role as a hub for space-technical companies. Franck offered fascinating background on Luxembourg’s history, from its origins as a fortress to an independent nation and European financial center--the second largest after London.
Terry McCarthy, CEO of the LA World Affairs Council, with speaker Allan Little.
IES was pleased to partner with the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles to organize a special Global Café Breakfast with former BBC correspondent Allan Little, on Wednesday, March 14. In his lecture titled "Brexit and the World at Large," Little talked about Britain's fraught relationship with the EU, and where it might be headed following the recent "leave" vote. The journalist, who now chairs the Edinburgh International Book Festival, also discussed his experiences as a foreign correspondent for the BBC in Paris, Johannesburg, the former Yugoslavia, Moscow and Baghdad.
Astrid Eckert (Emory University) with IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome
On March 13th, Astrid M. Eckert (Associate Professor of Modern European History and Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University) presented a lecture at the Institute titled, “Transboundary Nature: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape.” She began by remarking that the West German zonal borderlands or Zonenrandgebiete, are not just political spaces, but also environmental and economic landscapes. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, environmentalists rushed to areas such as the German Green Belt--the strip of land between the former East and West Germany--in the hopes of preserving nature.
Allan Little with IES Director Jeroen Dewulf
On March 13th, BBC correspondent Allan Little, the 2018 UC Berkeley Regents' Lecturer, delivered a talk to over 30 students and community members on UK-Scottish Relations After Brexit. Little, a native of Scotland, drew upon his experience growing up there, as well as his work with the BBC in Europe, to approach the question of whether the Brexit phenomenon would eventually lead to the breakup of the entire United Kingdom.
IES Director Jeroen Dewulf; Evan Reade; Jon Cho-Polizzi, PhD Candidate in German
On the 12th of March former US Consul General in Strasbourg, Evan G. Reade, delivered a lecture at the Social Science Matrix on the interagency foreign policy formulation process within the US government. In addition to his role as Consul General, Evan was also Observer to the Council of Europe and Director for Western Europe on the National Security Council (NSC) staff under President Obama between 2014 and 2016. Reade spoke of his personal experiences working for the NSC and how power is balanced throughout three co-equal branches of government.
IES Director Jeroen Dewulf and Allan Little
On March 7th, over 60 people gathered in Doe Library to hear this year’s Regents’ Lecture by Allan Little, “Reporting the World in an Age of Fear: The Fragility of the Post-War Order.” Allan Little is an experienced foreign correspondent for the BBC, who has done extensive work in the Soviet Union and Iraq. Little was able to offer the students and community members a unique perspective on the reporting of events of war while being in and close to the action.
Left to right: IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome with Dana Beldiman (Honorary Consul General of Romania), Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens (Consul General of France), Maria João Lopes Cardoso (Consul General of Portugal), Felipe Costa (Portuguese Trade and Investment Commissioner), and Hans-Ulrich Suedbeck (Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany).
On March 6, IES kicked off its EU HUB WEST events series with a panel discussion on building international careers in the European Union. "CONNECT: Exploring Global Careers in the EU" took place at the World Affairs headquarters in downtown San Francisco, bringing together over 60 attendees including members of the World Affairs Council Young Professionals Network and recent Cal alumni. Offering a unique opportunity to gain career insights from European diplomats, the event featured the Consuls General of France, Portugal, Germany and Romania, who discussed different avenues for exploring professional opportunities overseas.
IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome and Senior Fellow Timothy Scott Brown
On February 28, Timothy Scott Brown, IES Senior Fellow and Professor of History at Northeastern University, presented a talk based on his book, The 'Global 1968' at Fifty: What it Meant and What it Means, to a crowd of thirty community members and students. He discussed the global revolt of 1968 on both sides of the Cold War divide, explaining that it is possible and important not only to think at the local level but to look at the global framework and the movement of ideas which shaped the events of 1968. This makes the term “Global 1986” relevant in scholarship and enables us to understand that many “smaller” 1968s also occurred.
IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome with Senior Fellow Matthew Specter
On February 27th, Matthew Specter, IES Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar in Political Science, gave a lecture entitled “Historicizing the Realist Imagination: Hans Morgenthau in the Early Cold War.” During this lecture, Specter introduced the Realist school of thought and Morgenthau’s influence and involvement in it during his life, as well as various interpretations of Morgenthau’s work in contemporary international relations.
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