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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

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 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?

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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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