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On January 27, the Department of German, in cooperation with the IES Austrian Studies Program hosted Irina Simova of Princeton University to give a talk on Christoph Schlingensief’s performance of Ausländer Raus!. The event consisted of a presentation from Simova followed by...Read more about The Theatre of Migration, or: Affect, Biopolitics, and Spectacle in Christoph Schlingensief’s Ausländer Raus!

On January 26, 2023, the Institute of European Studies hosted an event discussing Germany’s cultural developments after WWII. Professor Sadhana Naithani from Jawaharlal Nehru University presented on the new cultural meanings of villages in Germany. She approached the topic by...Read more about Decolonizing German Cultural Anthropology: Narratives of Time and Space in Contemporary German Villages

On January 24th, 2023, the Institute of European Studies, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington, the Pacific Office Berkeley, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), and the Department of Political Science, had the honor to...Read more about Shades of Blue: Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration

On November 4th, 2022, the Institute of European Studies hosted the annual Undergraduate Research Conference. The theme of the conference was “The Future of Democracy in Europe” and students were asked to consider how the War in Ukraine, the rise of populism, and continuing...Read more about 2022 IES Undergraduate Conference

On December 2, the Institute of European Studies in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Department of German, the Goethe Institut San Francisco, the German Consulate General San Francisco, the German Historical Institute Washington, and the UC Davis Department of German hosted a...Read more about Crossing Borders, Drawing Lives: Barbara Yelin's Graphic Novels

Lukas Lehner is currently a visiting researcher and a Austrian Marshall Plan Scholar in his 4th year of his Ph.D. at the University of Oxford. Lehner first studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics for his undergraduate degree. He chose to study economics because he...Read more about IES Visiting Scholar Feature : Lukas Lehner

On November 1st, historian Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin) presented on ‘Nefertiti’s Twentieth-Century Career: A Global History’. Conrad focused on the different perceptions of beauty following Nefertiti’s history since her discovery. Conrad...Read more about Nefertiti’s Twentieth-Century Career: A Global History

On November 10, 2022, the Institute of European Studies in partnership with the Department of History, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, had the pleasure to host the Gerald D. and...Read more about 2022 Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture: Masculinity and Imperial Representation in the Later Roman Empire

On September 27th, the Institute of European Studies had the honor of hosting Amedeo Arena, distinguished legal scholar and professor of European Union law at the University of Naples Federico II, to discuss the historical significance of the...Read more about The Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence: a 240-year long discourse between Italy and the US

On November 8, the Institute of European Studies, and the Goldman School of Public Policy with sponsorship from the Center for Security in Politics, the Center for Studies in Higher Education, and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian...Read more about War in Ukraine: What’s Next?

Professor Irene Bloemraad, IES faculty affiliate and director of the Canadian Studies Program hosted a DAAD-funded conference on global migration at UC Berkeley from May 2-3, 2022, titled "Implementing Migration Policy: Excavating the Administrative and Bureaucratic Processes Behind...Read more about Implementing Migration Policy: Excavating the Administrative and Bureaucratic Processes Behind Migrant Admissions and Deportation

The UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies subscribes to the statements condemning the war in Ukraine by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the...Read more about Resources on Ukraine