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The Institute of European Studies, with sponsors from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and Tübingen University Law School, was pleased to host Professor Martin Nettesheim, Professor of Law at the University of Tübingen. Professor Paul Schwartz, Professor of Law...Read more about Data as an economic asset? Open questions in European data protection and data regulation law

The April 6th conference, "Putting Contemporary Climate Migration In Context: Insights from Two Decades of Research,", delivered by Professor Amanda Carrico of the University of Colorado, was an exceptional platform that provided a deep...Read more about Putting Contemporary Climate Migration In Context: Insights from Two Decades of Research — Amanda Carrico

On April 27, IES Associate Director Dr. Akasemi Newsome moderated an event, "Brussels to the Bay: Transatlantic responses to Cybersecurity Challenges." EU Envoy Gerard de Graaf opened the event and Dr. Newsome engaged a panel of top experts in conversation on cybersecurity threats, challenges...Read more about Brussels to the Bay: Transatlantic responses to Cybersecurity Challenges

On Feb 21, 2022, the Institute of European Studies held a panel discussion on Contrasting Science Education and Science Research in Portugal and the US by Prof. Randy Schekman and Prof. Carlos Fiolhais. Randy Schekman is a professor at the Cell and Developmental Biology department at...Read more about Contrasting Science Education and Science Research in Portugal and the US

On February 27th the Institute of European Studies co-hosted with the Haas School of Business and its Austrian partner institution MCI Innsbruck a panel discussion with Daniel Krauss, co-founder and CIO of FlixBus and owner of Greyhound. The discussion was moderated by IES Director...Read more about Flixbus and Greyhound: How can David and Goliath win together?

Othmar Karas, the First Vice President of the European Parliament, recently gave an online talk on the topic of the global partnership between Europe and the United States, moderated by IES Director Jeroen Dewulf, Andreas Altmann, president of MCI Innsbruck, and Wolfgang Petritsch,...Read more about Europe and United States: Global partnership, shared values

On March 3, 2023, thirty-eight people attended the panel discussion hosted by the Institute of European Studies and Department of German, featuring Peyman Azhari, an Iranian-German visual artist and photojournalist. The conference was moderated by Kristin Dickinson, an Associate...Read more about Framing Heimat in Translation

On February 22, Dr. Jennifer Allen, Associate Professor from Yale University History Department, presented on “Noah’s Ark for Future Generations” or Genetic Imperialism?: The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History. In relation to her new book, “Insurance Against Total...Read more about "Noah's Ark for Future Generations" or Genetic Imperialism?: The Dilemma of the Seed Bank in Postwar German History

On February 15, the Institute for European Studies was pleased to host Professor Fisher-Onar, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in International Studies at the University of San Francisco for a lecture that was attended by 40 people.

Fisher-Onar...Read more about From Trans-Atlantic Order to Afro-Eur-Asian Worlds? Reimagining IR as Interlocking Regional Worlds

On March 9th, the Institute of European Studies, along with sponsors from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and Tübingen University Law School, was pleased to host Professor Martin Nettesheim, Professor of Law at the University of Tübingen. Professor Paul Schwartz,...Read more about Data as an economic asset? Open questions in European data protection and data regulation law

On March 14th, the Institute of European Studies in cooperation with the Gerda Henkel lecture series and German Institute in Washington DC and Berkeley, were pleased to host Professor Willibald Steinmetz from Bielefeld University to discuss his upcoming book Outrageous Comparisons in...Read more about Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics

On March 6th, the Institute for European Studies was pleased to host historian Phillip Wagner, a visiting scholar from the University of Halle who studies modern German and European history. He presented his new book “Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-...Read more about Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955

The Migration and Global Health workshop encompassed two packed days in Berlin, Germany from December 16th-December 17th, 2022. Organized by Professors Seth Holmes (UC Berkeley), Regina Romhild (Humboldt U Berlin), Hansjörg Dilger (Freie U Berlin), and Ulrike Kluge (Charite U Medicine Berlin),...Read more about Confronting Racism, Colonialism and Migration in Global Health: Frameworks for the Future

On June 16th and 17th, 2022 in Paris, France, the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law convened a meeting of authors from our ...Read more about Global Systemic Racism Working Group: June 2022 Paris Meeting

On the 9th of February, the Institute of European Studies co-organized an event featuring Professor Dagmar Herzog with a presentation entitled “Theology of Disability: Germany, 1900-1945.” Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History at the City University New York Graduate...Read more about Theology of Disability: Germany, 1900-1945

On February 6th, 20 people in person and 50 on zoom attended the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Department’s lecture hosted by Prof. Philliou on the ‘Regional Component of the far-right vote: an insight from rural Greece’. The speaker of this conference was Sofia Tipaldou, a...Read more about The regional component of the far-right vote: An insight from rural Greece

On February 8th, 2023, the Institute of European Studies in cooperation with the Department of Political Studies and the Goldman School of Public Policy was pleased to host Phillip Trein, Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne and former visiting...Read more about The Paradox of Prevention: Authority and Democracy in Times of Crisis

On February 7th, the Institute of European Studies Irish Studies Program, in cooperation with the Celtic Studies Program, the Department of English, and the Department of Comparative Literature was pleased to host Professor of Modern English Claire Connolly at University College...Read more about Improving Ireland: From Maria Edgeworth to Sally Rooney

On February 6th the Institute of European Studies Austrian Studies Program co-organized with the Department of German a presentation of Alys George entitled “The Rubble Women: War, Gender, and the Novel in Austria, 1945-49”. Alys George is Acting Assistant Professor of German...Read more about The Rubble Women

On January 25th, the Institute of European Studies had the honor of hosting Professor Philipp Ther, Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna and the 2023 Botstiber Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. Moderated by Professor of Music Nicholas Mathew, the...Read more about Music of War and Victory: How Beethoven helped to save and rebuild the Habsburg Empire