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IES Director Professor Mia Fuller was invited to lead two panels at the 2026 Turin International Book Fair, held in Turin, Italy, from 14–18 May. The fair is Italy’s largest book trade event and one of the largest book fairs in Europe, attracting over 200 visitors and featuring prominent...Read more about IES Director Mia Fuller presents research at the 2026 Turin Book Festival

On April 27th, 2026, the Institute of European Studies welcomed Priya Satia, Professor of History at Stanford University, for a lecture titled, “The Eclipsed Republicanism of the Era of Conquest.” This lecture was co-sponsored by the ...Read more about Priya Satia | The Eclipsed Republicanism of the Era of Conquest

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On April 22nd, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies welcomed Professor Mehmet Sinan Birdal from Freie Universitat Berlin to campus to deliver a talk entitled “Political Ontology of the Closet: Elite...Read more about Mehmet Sinan Birdal | Political Ontology of the Closet: Elite Minorities and Sectarian Majorities in the Wilhelmine Empire

On April 21st, the Center for African Studies and the Institute of European Studies welcomed Akua Banful. In addition to her position as an assistant English professor at the University of California, Davis, her scholarship has been featured in a range of publications and she is currently...Read more about Akua Banful | A CAS Colloquium: Savage Landscaping: Crafting African Interiors in an Age of Empire

On April 17th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies hosted a lecture by Arnoud Arps, Assistant Professor of Extended Cinema, Film Heritage and Memory at the University of Amsterdam and a Rubicon Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Media and...Read more about Arnoud Arps | Who Owns Intangible Cultural Heritage from a Shared Colonial Past? The Rijsttafel, Food Media, and the Dutch East Indies

On April 16, 2026, Professor Luciano Brancaccio of the University of Naples Federico II visited the UC Berkeley campus and gave a lecture to a group of 18 individuals titled “Tracing a social history of the Neapolitan Camorra: markets, power, families”. Professor Brancaccio’s lecture...Read more about Luciano Brancaccio | Tracing a social history of the Neapolitan Camorra: markets, power, families

On April 14th, 2026, Mario Del Pero, Professor of International History at Sciences Po Paris, delivered a lecture on the history of the Atlantic Alliance between the United States and its European allies entitled, “Past and Future of the Transatlantic Alliance: A Historical...Read more about Mario del Pero | Past and Future of the Transatlantic Alliance: A Historical Perspective

On April 14th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, along with the Berkeley Dutch Studies Program and the Delegation of Flanders in the USA, welcomed Mark Vancauteren to deliver a lecture entitled “Regional Diversity and Global Economic Integration: Evidence from...Read more about Mark Vancauteren | Regional Diversity and Global Economic Integration: Evidence from Belgium

On April 9th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, along with the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, and the UC Berkeley International House welcomed Magnus Brunner, the present...Read more about Magnus Brunner | USA & Europe: How Can We Win Together?

On April 8th, 2026, IES’ Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies welcomed Felicien Faury for a conversation on the rise of the far-right in contemporary France. The conversation was sponsored by the France-Berkeley Fund, with the help of the French...Read more about Félicien Faury | Why Do Voters Support the Far Right in France? A Sociological Perspective

On April 8th, 2026, the Institute of European Studies hosted a lecture by Franz Fischler, former European Union Commissioner and Dr. Andreas Altmann, Chancellor of MCI Business School. The lecture was moderated by Dr. Jeroen Dewulf, Professor in the Department of German and Director of UC...Read more about Franz Fischler, Andreas Altmann | Tyrol in Austria in Europe: Insights into an iconic region in the Heart of the Alps

From April 6th to April 8th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program sent a team to compete in the 2026 Schuman Challenge. Hosted by the EU Delegation to the US, the Schuman he Challenge is an annual foreign affairs contest...Read more about 2026 Schuman Challenge

On 2 April 2026, the Center for Portuguese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley welcomed Thais França, Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon and Visiting Professor in Portuguese and...Read more about Thais França | Language and Colonial Legacies in Portuguese Higher Education: The Experiences of Brazilian and African Portuguese-Speaking Students

On March 31st, 2026, the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business held a lecture at the Connie & Kevin Chou Hall, featuring Germany’s former Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action from 2021-2025, Robert Habeck, in conversation...Read more about An Evening with Former German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck

On March 31st, 2026, Carla Shapreau, Senior Fellow at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, Continuing Lecturer at Berkeley Law School, and Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments in the Department of Music, presented a lecture entitled “The Nazi...Read more about Carla Shapreau | The Nazi-Era Theft of the 1709 Mendelssohn Stradivari: A Case Study on Looted Cultural Property, Provenance, and the Law

On Monday, March 30th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies Undergraduate Research and Apprenticeship Program had the honor of hosting Mary Robinson, the first female President (Uachtaráin) of Ireland and former United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human...Read more about Mary Robinson | A Conversation with the Former President of Ireland (1990-1997)

On March 17th, 2026, Dakota Robinson, a PhD student in UC Berkeley's Department of Linguistics, held a lecture on the complexities of multilingualism, entitled “La francophonie et les langues régionales: Multilingualism and language attitudes among contemporary Breton speakers.”...Read more about Dakota Robinson | La francophonie et les langues régionales: Multilingualism and language attitudes among contemporary Breton speakers

On March 16th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies hosted Howard French, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, along with Adam Hochschild, a journalist and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, to discuss...Read more about The Second Emancipation: Author Howard French in conversation with Journalist Adam Hochschild

On March 11th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program welcomed Professor Nikolaos Panou, Senior Lecturer at the Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies and Associate Director for Teaching, Learning, and Public Service at Princeton University, to...Read more about Nikolaos Panou | Collective Representations of the Greek War of Independence 2026 Nikos Kazantzakis Lecture