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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 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 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)