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On October 11th, the Institute for European Studies hosted an engaging discussion led by Agata Kotkowska, former visiting research fellow at UC Berkeley and current Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Environment. Her talk, titled '...Read more about Is the European Green Deal at a Crossroads?

On October 11th, Professor Kira Thurman from the University of Michigan delivered a guest lecture at Morrison Hall on the rise of Euro-Disco in post-World War II and Cold War Europe. Thurmann, a professor of history, German, and musicology, focuses her research on how music...Read more about On Musical Masquerade and Mimicry: Disco, Black Europe, and the Re-Making of a Music Industry

On October 7th, Eva Horn, professor of German literature, history, and cultural theory at the University of Vienna and Max Kade Visiting Professor in UC Berkeley's Department of German, delivered a lecture on A Sense of Air: For an Aesthesis of Climate....Read more about Eva Horn “A Sense of Air: For an Aesthesis of Climate”

On October 7th, The Center for Race and Gender, along with the Institute of European Studies and co-sponsors, hosted a screening of Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman, ” a film by Swiss-Congolese filmmaker Rachel M’Bon. Following the film...Read more about Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman” with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon

On September 25th, scholars from the German Historical Institute in Washington and the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam convened for an online panel discussion on the future of Zeitgeschichte, contemporary German history, in the growing...Read more about Panel Discussion: Global History Meets German Zeitgeschichte

On September 24th, approximately 35 scholars and students gathered to hear Professor Melanie Arndt speak about her book Chernobyl Children and the Transnational History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. The event was sponsored by the Institute of European...Read more about Melanie Arndt | When the Disaster Comes to Visit: The Chernobyl Children and the Transnational History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

On September 19th, the Institute of European Studies welcomed Professor Mihnea Stoica from the College of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences at Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, for a lecture on Europe's vulnerability to populism amid the war in Ukraine. The...Read more about Vulnerability to Populism in Times of Neighboring War: Political Discourse and Public Perception in the European Union

On September 20th, the UC Berkeley Department of German, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and IES hosted poet and playwright Sasha Salzmann in conversation with Molly...Read more about Archives of Migration: Sasha Salzmann in conversation with Molly Krueger

On September 15th, the Institute of European Studies, the Program for the Study in Flanders, the Dutch Studies Program, Flanders in the USA, the IES Benelux Program, and the Department of Music hosted Dr. Luc Rombouts from Leuven University for a lecture on the history and...Read more about Sounds from Heaven: A Musical Heritage from the Low Countries

On September 11th, The IES Austrian Studies Program, in collaboration with the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, invited Benedikt Harzl, Associate Professor from the Centre for East European Law and Eurasian Studies and the Institute of International Law of the...Read more about Austria’s Permanent Neutrality in European and Transatlantic Context(s)

On September 9th, UC Berkeley political science professor and Center for British Studies director Mark Bevir hosted a British Studies Workshop on “The Governmentality of Populism.” The event featured eight scholars from several European universities who presented and discussed...Read more about British Studies Workshop: The Governmentality of Populism

On the 8 th of April, the Institute of European Studies at Berkeley, alongside the Center
for British Studies and the Anglo-American Studies Program, hosted a lecture by Matt
Beech, Reader in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics at the University
of Hull, and Senior...Read more about Matt Beech | Polarized Peoples - Examining the culture wars and how they can be transcended

On April 26-27, 2024 Berkeley Law Professor and IES faculty affiliate David Oppenheimer organized a workshop titled "EU Comparative Workshop on Global and European Perspectives on Systemic Racism." Eleven authors from the forthcoming collected volume on Global Systemic Racism were invited...Read more about 2024 EU Comparative Workshop on Global and European Perspectives on Systemic Racism

On April 23rd 2024, The UC Berkeley Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies hosted a lecture and reception to celebrate their launch, featuring member of the French National Assembly, David Amiel. This event was also sponsored by the Institute of European Studies...Read more about UC Berkeley Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies launch and lecture "Between two worlds: Macron’s industrial policy from a political perspective"

Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited UC Berkeley this week as part of a 2-day visit to California to promote sustainable climate cooperation between Norway and California. The Norwegian Minister of Trade, Jan Christian Vestre, and Consul General Gry Henriksen accompanied the Crown Prince’s...Read more about Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visits UC Berkeley

On April 12, the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality, in collaboration with the Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative, Social Matrix, and Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies invited Professor of Sociology at Paris Dauphine...Read more about Céline Bessiére and Sibylle Gollac | The Gender of Capital

On April 10, 2024, the Institute of European Studies hosted Professor David Reynolds for his lecture, “The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the United Kingdom.” Professor of History at Cambridge University and Fellow of Christ’s College, Reynolds came to Berkeley as a...Read more about David Reynolds- The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the United Kingdom

On April 9th, the Institute of European Studies hosted 37 attendees for the annual Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture, followed by a Q&A session and a reception. This event was previously organized by the Anglo-American studies program, who joined IES in 2023, and was made...Read more about R. Kirk Underhill Lecture: David Reynolds, “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him”

On the 4 th of April, the Institute of European Studies at Berkeley, alongside the Center
for Portuguese Studies, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the
Luso-American Development Foundation, and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, hosted a
presentation by Dana T. Redford to...Read more about Dana T. Redford | Gen Z Activists and Entrepreneurs in Europe: Enabling Digital and Green Transition

On April 4 and 5, two undergraduate students, accompanied by one of their advisors, Rachaël Longuépée, had the opportunity to present at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. Lisette Gomez-Galvan and Christopher Ojeda collaborated with their program advisors...Read more about 2024 Schuman Challenge