Global Europe
The Institute of European Studies mobilizes UC Berkeley's singular research resources and faculty expertise, in collaboration with a wide range of research and teaching units on the Berkeley campus, to examine Europe in its global context and train the next generation of scholars to develop the capacity for transatlantic dialogue and cooperation.
Featured Projects
Digital Refuge
Over a million displaced people have entered Europe over the last few years, fleeing war-torn regions. Unlike refugees in prior crises, this wave of asylum seekers has relied heavily on new technologies and social media to connect with friends and family and share information about their experiences in Europe. To better understand these narratives, Berkeley Law professor Katerina Linos launched Digital Refuge, an interactive mapping project that presents refugees’ experiences in their own words. Learn more
Innovations in River Management: Germany and the US
Among innovative solutions in river management in Europe and California is the integration of ecosystem restoration into projects to reduce the risk of floods---the most costly natural disasters. With the support of an Institute of European Studies DAAD grant, Matt Kondolf and Anna Serra Llobet (UC Berkeley) organized a 2019 workshop and field excursion to the Sacramento River Valley to examine flood management solutions with researchers and policymakers from across Germany and the United States.
Read our Research Spotlight with Professor Kondolf
Comparing Life Expectancy in France and the US
How does the average length of life in France compare to the United States, and what does this comparison reveal about the two countries? In 2019, the France-Berkeley Fund supported the collaboration of Magali Barbieri (Professor of Demography, UC Berkeley) and Hippolyte d’Albis (Paris School of Economics) in analyzing mortality data from both countries, resulting in a remarkable and extensive data series accessible to the public and a foundation for future research. Learn more
Electronic Literature as a Framework for Digital Humanities
In a transatlantic research project funded by the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study (2017-18), collaborators Alexandra Saum-Pascual (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen, Norway, explored the relationships between creative practice, digital method based literary research in electronic literature, and the use of e-lit in a digital humanities curriculum. Learn more
Recent Publications
The Palgrave Handbook on EU Crises (2021), edited by Marianne Riddervold, Jarle Trondal and Akasemi Newsome; chapters by Chris Ansell, Bev Crawford, Martin Shapiro and Matthew Stenberg
Funded by Jean Monnet 2018-2021 grant
The Global #MeToo Movement (2020), edited by Ann Noel and David Oppenheimer
Funded by DAAD 2019-20 grant
Transatlantic Collaboration
IES promotes and strengthens collaborations between researchers at UC Berkeley and their counterparts in Europe, through our bi-lateral grant programs.
Through its annual grant competition, in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the France-Berkeley Fund seeds innovative, bi-national collaborations in all fields. Learn more
The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study enables UC Berkeley faculty to conduct exploratory and cutting-edge research in tandem with leading researchers from eight higher education institutions in Norway in collaboration with The Norwegian Research Council. Learn more