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On December 9th, 2025 the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies hosted its annual Undergraduate Research Conference, bringing together students, faculty, and external experts. The day-long research symposium, entitled “Sovereignty and Identity in the Contemporary European...Read more about Institute of European Studies 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference

On December 4th, 2025, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies hosted a lecture entitled “Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Bernat Metge Knocking on Hell’s Door: Why the Souls of the Suicides Keep Moving” by Professor Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, a Visiting Assistant professor in Catalan Studies at...Read more about Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà | Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Bernat Metge Knocking on Hell’s Door: Why the Souls of the Suicides Keep Moving

On December 2nd, 2025, the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, alongside Villa Albertine and the Consulat Général de France à San Francisco, welcomed Associate Professor Armen Khatchatourov of the University Gustave Eiffel, Paris. Khatchatourov led research at Institut...Read more about Armen Khatchatourov | “Can We Disentangle AI from Governmentality? A Foucauldian Perspective”

On November 19th, 2025, the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and the Institute of European Studies welcomed visiting scholars Amy Skonieczny, Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University and Valentina Nava, a PhD candidate for Political Sociology at...Read more about Amy Skonieczny and Valentina Nava | Populism and the Far Right: Global Frameworks and Local Crises

On November 6th 2025, the Institute of European Studies welcomed Brandon Bloch, assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as he presented a lecture on his recent book “Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi...Read more about Brandon Bloch | Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy

The Center for Portuguese Studies at UC Berkeley convened its annual Ana Hatherly Lecture on November 6, 2025, featuring Yale University professor Kenneth David Jackson, a leading scholar of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures. Moderated by Professor Jeroen DeWulf, director of the Center for...Read more about 2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture: Luís de Camões between Europe and Asia (1553–1570)

On November 5th, 2025, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies welcomed Professor Miriam Cabré Ollé to campus to present a lecture entitled “Creators, Influencers and Haters: How Catalan Troubadours Helped Shape Today’s World,” Professor Cabré teaches Romance Literature at...Read more about Miriam Cabré | Creators, Influencers and Haters: How Catalan Troubadours Helped Shape Today’s World

On October 30th, 2025, the Institute of European Studies hosted Professor Ingela Steij Stålbrand to present her lecture titled: "Shaping Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span." Professor Stålbrand is a visiting scholar from Lund University, Sweden, where she is a senior lecturer in...Read more about Ingela Steij Stålbrand | Shaping Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span

On October 24, 2025, the Institute of European Studies hosted graphic novelist Maria van Lieshout at UC Berkeley’s Philosophy Hall. She gave a lecture to about 35 guests on her recently published graphic novel, Blackbird, a fictional story set in Nazi occupied Amsterdam. She gave a historical...Read more about Lecture by Dutch Graphic Novelist Maria van Lieshout on the Graphic Novel “Blackbird”.

On the 21st of October, Maria Labarta—a Professor at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication at the Universitat de València—delivered her ninth intervention for the Institute of European Studies, presenting her research to a group of 25 interested listeners. Professor Labarta...Read more about Maria Labarta | Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Education: A Case Study of German for International Business Students at a Spanish University.

On the 16th of October 2025, Professor Pedro Vicente of NOVA SBE delivered a talk at UC Berkeley’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, presenting his work titled “On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique.” Speaking to attendees...Read more about Pedro Vicente | On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

On October 16th, 2025, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted a lecture titled “NATO’s Role in International Affairs”. Speakers were Professor Jan Wouters, Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and Ambassador Dirk Wouters, former Belgian...Read more about Jan Wouters and Dirk Wouters | NATO’s Role in International Affairs

On October 15th, Jakob Hensing, a current Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, held a conference titled "Risky Business: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Weaponized Independence" at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (...Read more about Jakob Hensing | Risky Business: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Weaponized Interdependence

On the 13th of October 2025, Professor Catia Batista of NOVA SBE delivered a talk at UC Berkeley’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, presenting her work titled “Integrating Migrants: Experimental Evidence on Cross-Border Spillover.”

In her talk, Professor Batista...Read more about Catia Batista | Integrating Migrants: Experimental Evidence on Cross-Border Spillover

On October 8th, 2025, the UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues welcomed Guillaume Dumont, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Ethnography Institute at Emlyon Business School in France. Dumont has written multiple books and is currently...Read more about Guillaume Dumont | Narco-Especulació: Drug trafficking, speculative practices and community organizing in Barcelona

On October 6th, 2025, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, along with the German Historical Institute, UC Berkeley History Department, UC Berkeley German Department, Center for Right Wing Studies, and Center for German Studies welcomed Professor Michael Wildt, emeritus...Read more about Michael Wildt | “The Complex Legacies of Nazism: Current Perspectives on the History and Memory of National Socialism”

On September 26th, 2025, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) team welcomed the Transatlantic Student Initiative (TSI) from Kiel, Germany to our campus for a group cultural exchange discussion and a campus tour. The Transatlantic...Read more about Welcoming the Transatlantic Student Initiative from Kiel University in Kiel, Germany to the UC Berkeley Campus

On September 25th, 2025, Kristina Boréus, Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University in Sweden, delivered a lecture on contemporary European identity and migration entitled “Migrants and Natives - “Them” and “Us: Radical Right and Mainstream Political Rhetoric...Read more about Kristina Boréus | Migrants and Natives - “Them” and “US”: Radical Right and Mainstream Political Rhetoric in the Western European Shift to the Right

On the 24th of September 2025, Hans Kundnani presented his book, Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project, at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies. Kundnani, an Open Societies Ideas Workshop fellow and visiting...Read more about Hans Kundnani | Whiteness and the European Project