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On March 18th, an esteemed panel convened for an online webinar to discuss NATO’s role in addressing cyber and data challenges. Hosted by MCI Innsbruck in collaboration with the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, the event featured Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, NATO’...Read more about Manfred Boudreaux | Securing the Future: Trust, Data & Cyber Challenges

On March 20, a two-day academic event exploring new research on Freudian concepts and psychoanalysis began. The third panel of the day focused on psychoanalysis in a colonial context, featuring presentations by Professor Howard Chiang of UC Santa Barbara; Professor Akshi Singh of...Read more about A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

On March 21, the second day of the academic conference A Return to Freud? continued with a new series of panels. The sixth panel, Symptomatic Reading Now, focused on feminist and queer responses to Freudian psychoanalysis....Read more about A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

On April 1st, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington, the Center for German and European Studies, the History department, and the German Department, hosted Thomas Kohut, Sue and Edgar Wachenhiem III...Read more about Thomas Kohut | Empathy and Historical Understanding

On April 9th, Professor Sean Gailmard, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, delivered the annual Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture. Sponsored by the Anglo-American Studies Program, Center for British Studies, Institute of Government Studies, Political Science Department, and...Read more about Sean Gailmard | Agents of Empire: English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions

On April 10th, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley hosted Professor Melanie Hack, a faculty member at the University of Bergen who earned her PhD from the University of Oslo. The in-person event took place at the Institute and drew an audience of four attendees...Read more about Melanie Hack | Everybody Needs a Helping Hand?! An Overview of Employee Rights in the Context of Elder Care in the EU and Norway

On April 15, UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies (IES) and the Department of Italian Studies hosted Professor Amedeo Arena for a lecture on his current research into transatlantic Enlightenment thought. Arena, a Full Professor of European Union Law at the University of...Read more about Amedeo Arena | Enlightening Correspondences Between Italy and America: Cirillo and Morgan, Filangieri and Franklin

On March 24, 2025, the University of California, Berkeley hosted a special workshop titled “Digital Competences and Tools in the Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language,” led by renowned educator and researcher Adelina Moura. Held at Philosophy Hall,...Read more about 2025 Portuguese Teacher's Workshop

On March 7^th the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, the Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor in Feminist and Gender Studies at Stanford University. Jean Baptiste’s presentation, “I am French: Métis, French Africa, and the...Read more about I am French: Métis, French Africa, and the Reconfiguration of French Citizenship in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries

On 23 January 2025, UC Berkeley welcomed George A. Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece and current General Rapporteur on Democracy for the Council of Europe, for a special talk on Global Threats to Democracy. Mr. Papandreou’s talk at UC Berkeley’s Alumni...Read more about Berkeley Welcomes George A. Papandreou, Former Prime Minister of Greece

Big Give, our annual fundraising blitz, has been online since 2014, inspiring the Cal community to make Berkeley moments possible. On March 13, 2025, we invite all members of the IES community including; UC Berkeley alumni, parents, students...Read more about Big Give 2025

On December 10th, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted Marc Frey, a distinguished professor of the history of international relations at the University of Armed Forces in Munich, for a lecture titled Tensions of Empire: Writing Dutch Colonial...Read more about Tensions of Empire: Writing Dutch Colonial History with Professor Marc Frey

On November 22nd, Clara Chappaz, France’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, participated in a live recording of the TechHype podcast at UC Berkeley. The event, co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab, focused on “The Future of AI...Read more about A Conversation with Minister Clara Chappaz on the Future of AI Governance

On November 20th, a distinguished panel convened for an online webinar to discuss the implications of right-wing populism for the future of the transatlantic partnership. The event brought together Akasemi Newsome, Associate Director of the Institute of European Studies (IES) at...Read more about Transatlantic Perspectives: Trump, Orbán, Le Pen, Wilders, Kickl – The Rise of Right-Wing Populism and the Future of the Transatlantic Partnership

On November 15th, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley hosted its annual Undergraduate Research Conference, bringing together approximately 20 attendees. The event featured a keynote address by Austrian Consul General Isabella Tomas and presentations by UC...Read more about Fall 2024 IES Undergraduate Conference | “The European Union’s Strategic Role in Global Affairs”

On November 19th, the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, and the French Department, the Institute of European Studies, and the Villa Albertine in San Francisco, hosted Vincent Michelot, a professor of American Civilization at Sciences Po Lyon. Michelot...Read more about Vincent Michelot | Beyond the 2024 Election: American Politics seen from France

On November 14th, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the Armenian Studies Program under the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), hosted Dr. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History...Read more about Lerna Ekmekçioğlu | From Paris to Yerevan: Communist Armenian Women and the Post-WWII Soviet Repatriation Campaign

On November 13th, the Institute for European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley and the German Historical Institute (GHI) hosted the Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture at the Magnes Museum Foundation. This annual event, established to commemorate the life and work of former IES...Read more about Radio Propaganda and Terror: Austrian-Jewish Refugees and the Media

On November 8th, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, in partnership with the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies department and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, hosted an engaging presentation by Martin Schwartz, a former Berkeley professor of Near...Read more about Martin Schwartz | The Asia Minor Style of Greek Urban (“Rebetic”) Music

On November 8th, Professor Lisiane Feiten Wingert Ody from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, delivered a guest lecture at Philosophy Hall on the Washington Principles and legal battles concerning the restitution of...Read more about 25 Years of the “Washington Principles” on Art Confiscated by the Nazis