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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 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 7th, visiting professor Alireza Behtoui from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) delivered a lecture titled Once upon a time Swedish schools were the best in the world, but not anymore: Why not?...Read more about Alireza Behtoui | Once upon a time Swedish schools were the best in the world, but not anymore: Why not?

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

On November 6th, the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley, in partnership with the Austrian Consulate in San Francisco and Berkeley Law School, hosted Dr. Miriam Gassner for a lecture titled Transfer of Legal Thought through Migration?. The...Read more about Miriam Gassner | "Transfer of Legal Thought through Migration?" The Story of Helen Silving-Ryu (1906-1993)

On November 7th, Dr. Valley Lytra, a professor at Goldsmiths University of London, delivered a lecture on Children’s Agentive Voices in Arts-based Creativity in a Greek Heritage Pre-kindergarten Class. The event, which attracted 10 attendees, was...Read more about Dr. Vally Lytra: “And the wolf slept on the tree”: Children’s Agentive Voices in Arts-based Creativity in a Greek Heritage Pre-kindergarten Class

On October 30th, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley hosted Professor Asta Mønsted, a distinguished archeologist with a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and new faculty at UC Berkeley's Scandinavian Department, for a lecture on integrating oral history with...Read more about The Intersection of Oral History and Archaeological Interpretation

On October 30th, Jakob Vogel, professor of Modern History at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), recently visited the French library to present his research project, “Sciences Po, Une Histoire Coloniale.” The event was attended by an audience of 30, including...Read more about Jakob Vogel | Forming an Elite for the French Empire: Colonial Sciences at the Ecole Libre de Sciences Politiques in Paris (1880-1960)

On October 23rd, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the French Department and the Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, welcomed Caroline Moine, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Saclay in France...Read more about Caroline Moine | The History of European Film Schools in the 20th Century: Artistic Circulations, Political Sociability and Professional Networks

On October 25th, Dr. Michael Bonitz from Kiel University in Germany visited UC Berkeley to deliver an engaging lecture on Max Planck’s pivotal contributions to the field of quantum physics. Bonitz contextualized Planck’s achievements within their historical background, showcasing...Read more about Michael Bonitz | Max Planck, Kiel, and The Beginning of The Quantum Era

On October 28th, the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) and IES co-organized a virtual event featuring Austria’s Minister of Labor and Economy, Martin Kocher, titled The US and Europe: How Can We Win Together. The event offered insights into Kocher's...Read more about Martin Kocher | USA & Europe: How Can We Win together?

On October 16th, UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies (IES) hosted Dr. Giada Lagana, a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University, for a presentation on the key ideas from her first monograph. Lagana, whose work primarily focuses on...Read more about Giada Lagana | The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

On October 23rd, the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley (IES), in collaboration with the BENELUX Program, the Department of History, and Flanders in the USA, hosted a lecture featuring Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, a professor at Ghent University in Belgium. The event focused...Read more about Anne-Laure Van Bruaene | The Naked Man. Lucas d’Heere: A Flemish Exile Artist in Elizabethan London

On October 24th, 2024, Professor Natasha Wheatley, an associate professor of history at Princeton University, presented a talk on her recent book, The Life and Death of States:Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty. The...Read more about Natasha Wheatley | The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

On October 7th, Eva Horn, professor of German literature, history, and cultural theory at the University of Vienna and Max Kade Visiting Professor in UC Berkeley's Department of German, delivered a lecture on A Sense of Air: For an Aesthesis of Climate....Read more about Eva Horn “A Sense of Air: For an Aesthesis of Climate”

On October 11th, Professor Kira Thurman from the University of Michigan delivered a guest lecture at Morrison Hall on the rise of Euro-Disco in post-World War II and Cold War Europe. Thurmann, a professor of history, German, and musicology, focuses her research on how music...Read more about On Musical Masquerade and Mimicry: Disco, Black Europe, and the Re-Making of a Music Industry

On October 11th, the Institute for European Studies hosted an engaging discussion led by Agata Kotkowska, former visiting research fellow at UC Berkeley and current Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Environment. Her talk, titled '...Read more about Is the European Green Deal at a Crossroads?

On October 15th, Viola Alianov-Rautenberg presented her latest research on the gendered dimensions of German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, drawing from her publication No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen. She highlighted how gender politics and...Read more about Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine

On October 7th, The Center for Race and Gender, along with the Institute of European Studies and co-sponsors, hosted a screening of Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman, ” a film by Swiss-Congolese filmmaker Rachel M’Bon. Following the film...Read more about Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman” with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon

On September 25th, scholars from the German Historical Institute in Washington and the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam convened for an online panel discussion on the future of Zeitgeschichte, contemporary German history, in the growing...Read more about Panel Discussion: Global History Meets German Zeitgeschichte