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On April 22nd, the Institute of European Studies (IES) and the Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley co-hosted a lecture by Sergio Fabbrini, Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at Luiss University in Rome and a longtime visiting scholar at...Read more about A Federalist Alternative for European Governance: The European Union in Hard Times with Sergio Fabbrini

On April 23rd, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted Dr. Luigi Prada, Associate Professor of Egyptology (Dr. habil.) at Uppsala University in Sweden and Assistant Director of the Oxford-Uppsala Epigraphic Project in Elkab, Egypt. Prada delivered a compelling...Read more about Luigi Prada | Colonial Philology? Neo-hieroglyphic Inscriptions, 19th Century Egyptology, and European Politics

On April 25th, UC Berkeley hosted Bordered Life and the Right to Move, an international conference co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, UC Berkeley Arts and Humanities, the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley English,...Read more about Bordered Life and the Right to Move (Day 1)

On April 30th, the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, in collaboration with the French Department, the Institute of European Studies, and the French Consulate in San Francisco/Villa Albertine, hosted an in-person event titled The Rise and...Read more about The Rise and Mutations of the French Far-Right

On April 17, the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies and the French Department, in collaboration with the Institute of European Studies (IES), Villa Albertine, the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, and the FACE Foundation, hosted the first French...Read more about French Job & Internship Fair

On February 20th, UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies (IES) welcomed Phillip M. Ayoub, Professor of International Relations at University College London, for a discussion on his latest book, The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational...Read more about Phillip Ayoub | The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities

On February 25th, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted a rapid-response webinar to discuss the results of the 2025 German federal elections. The event was moderated by Mia Fuller, Faculty Director of the Institute, alongside Dr. Akasemi Newsome, Associate...Read more about Panel Discussion | Rapid Response: 2025 German Federal Election

On March 4th, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley welcomed Professor Christina Gerhardt for a presentation on her recently published book, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. The book won a silver medal at the California Book...Read more about Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, with Professor Christina Gerhardt

On March 11th, a crowd of 30 at UC Berkeley welcomed Professor Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an acclaimed German historian and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin), for a lecture on Frederick William I, the “Soldier King” (...Read more about Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger | On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History. The Case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia

On March 11th, the UC Berkeley Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program welcomed Professor Artemis Leontis, the C.P. Cavafy Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature and Director of the Modern Greek Program at the University of Michigan, for a lecture titled “Kazantzakis...Read more about Artemis Leontis | 2025 Nikos Kazantzakis Lecture: Women Talking in a Closet of the Archive of Hellenism

On March 18th, an esteemed panel convened for an online webinar to discuss NATO’s role in addressing cyber and data challenges. Hosted by MCI Innsbruck in collaboration with the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, the event featured Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, NATO’...Read more about Manfred Boudreaux | Securing the Future: Trust, Data & Cyber Challenges

On March 20, a two-day academic event exploring new research on Freudian concepts and psychoanalysis began. The third panel of the day focused on psychoanalysis in a colonial context, featuring presentations by Professor Howard Chiang of UC Santa Barbara; Professor Akshi Singh of...Read more about A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

On March 21, the second day of the academic conference A Return to Freud? continued with a new series of panels. The sixth panel, Symptomatic Reading Now, focused on feminist and queer responses to Freudian psychoanalysis....Read more about A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

On April 1st, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington, the Center for German and European Studies, the History department, and the German Department, hosted Thomas Kohut, Sue and Edgar Wachenhiem III...Read more about Thomas Kohut | Empathy and Historical Understanding

On April 9th, Professor Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, delivered the annual Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture. Sponsored by the Anglo-American Studies Program, Center for British Studies, Institute of Government Studies, Political Science Department, and...Read more about Sean Gailmard | Agents of Empire: English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions

On April 10th, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley hosted Professor Melanie Hack, a faculty member at the University of Bergen who earned her PhD from the University of Oslo. The in-person event took place at the Institute and drew an audience of four attendees...Read more about Melanie Hack | Everybody Needs a Helping Hand?! An Overview of Employee Rights in the Context of Elder Care in the EU and Norway

On April 15, UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies (IES) and the Department of Italian Studies hosted Professor Amedeo Arena for a lecture on his current research into transatlantic Enlightenment thought. Arena, a Full Professor of European Union Law at the University of...Read more about Amedeo Arena | Enlightening Correspondences Between Italy and America: Cirillo and Morgan, Filangieri and Franklin

On March 24, 2025, the University of California, Berkeley hosted a special workshop titled “Digital Competences and Tools in the Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language,” led by renowned educator and researcher Adelina Moura. Held at Philosophy Hall,...Read more about 2025 Portuguese Teacher's Workshop

On March 7^th the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, the Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor in Feminist and Gender Studies at Stanford University. Jean Baptiste’s presentation, “I am French: Métis, French Africa, and the...Read more about I am French: Métis, French Africa, and the Reconfiguration of French Citizenship in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries