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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

On March 10th, 2026, German historian Dorothee Wierling presented a lecture entitled “The German Blues: A Historian’s Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany” in UC Berkeley’s Philosophy Hall to an audience of approximately thirty-eight attendees....Read more about Dorothee Wierling | The German Blues: A Historian’s Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany

On February 24th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, along with the UC Berkeley Departments of History and Italian Studies, hosted Emanuel Rota, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, for a lecture entitled, “Europe Against...Read more about Emanuel Rota | Europe Against Liberalism: Fascist Europeanism and Its Contemporary Echoes

On February 17th, 2026, the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the UC Berkeley School of Information jointly welcomed Birthe Panhans, UC Berkeley EU Fellow and IES Visiting Scholar, to present a lecture entitled “Competition in the...Read more about Birthe Panhans | Competition in the AI Age: Evolutions in Antitrust Design and Enforcement

On Thursday, February 12th, the Berkeley French Graduate Student Association commenced the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Student Conference, entitled “Mutations.” The conference began...Read more about Berkeley Graduate Student Conference | Mutations

On February 6th, 2026, Thomas Ertl, Professor of High and Late Medieval History at Freie University in Berlin, Germany, delivered the 2026 Bostiber Lecture in Austrian Studies entitled, “The Jewish Community of Vienna in the Middle Ages: A Turbulent History and its Material...Read more about Thomas Ertl | 2026 Botstiber Lecture in Austrian Studies | The Jewish Community of Vienna in the Middle Ages: A Turbulent History and its Material Remains

On the 28th of January, 2026, Professor Cornelius Torp — a Kratter Visiting Professor in European History at Stanford University — explored the history of two synchronised phenomena in his lecture,“The Blurred Line: Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900,”...Read more about Cornelius Torp | The Blurred Line: Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900

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 3rd, the Institute of European Studies (IES) welcomed US Berkeley Professor Sofia Berto Villas-Boa for a presentation to the visiting delegation of faculty and students from the University of Piraeus in Greece. Professor Villas-Boa is a prominent scholar in the Agricultural and...Read more about Professor Sofia Berto Villas-Boa | IES Visit From Greece

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

The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of German welcomed Noah Isenberg on November 6, 2025. Isenberg, a Berkeley graduate, is currently the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Executive Director of UTLA and UTNY at the University of Texas at Austin...Read more about Noah Isenberg | “‘Runnin’ Wild’: Billy Wilder, Hot Jazz, and Weimar Jewish Culture”

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 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

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