Architectures of Asylum in Berlin, Germany 🗓️ 25 February 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Europe Against Liberalism: Fascist Europeanism and Its Contemporary Echoes 🗓️ 24 February 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

French Graduate Student Conference | Mutations ❇️ 🗓️ 12-13 February 📍4229 Dwinelle Hall Contact: [email protected] events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Competition in the AI age: Evolutions in antitrust design and enforcement 🗓️ 17 February 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration for the 2027 Franz Steiner Prize! The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations. Application details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fra...

GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will be giving a public lecture on "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire" at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social on Thursday, February 19th. Registration details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

IES Senior Fellow Matthew Specter quoted in the New York Times on Realism in US National Security Strategy. Read the full article --> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/m...

Contesting Pluralism(s): How to learn from Turkey and “Non-Western” Cases 🗓️ 12 February 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall 🔗Register for this event on our website events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

⭐ Internship Opportunity! ⭐ FLAD will select up to seven interns with an interest in public service and eager to acquire significant experience in the US legislative process. Applicants can learn more about this opportunity on our website: www.flad.pt/en/applicati...

2026 Botstiber lecture in Austrian Studies The Jewish Community of Vienna in the Middle Ages: A Turbulent History and its Material Remains 🗓️ 4 February 🕛 Noon-2p.m. 📍223 Philosophy Hall 🔗Register for this event on our website events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Transatlantic Research Partnership 2026 The TRP now supports collaborative research projects carried out by two early-career researchers in France and the United States. The application deadline is February 15, 2026. albertinefoundation.org/albertine-hi...

Join us for our first event of the spring semester 2026! The Blurred Line: Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900 🗓️ 28 January 🕛 5pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Hibernation is nearly over... 🐻🌸 Looking forward to Spring Semester 2026! We have lots of fun events planned this semester, keep an eye on our socials for event updates! #gobears🐻 #springsemester #ucberkeley #berkeley

This holiday season please consider making a donation to the IES! Support our research, keep our events free, have Berkeley's gateway to Europe open for everyone! More info at the link below: give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0717000

Can we Disentangle AI from Governmentality? a Foucauldian Perspective 🗓️ 2 December 🕛Noon 📍Library of French Thought, Dwinelle 4229 For more information see our event listing events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Bernat Metge Knocking on Hell’s Door: Why the Souls of the Suicides Keep Moving 🗓️ 4 December 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register on our website! events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Reminder: Applications for our 2026 West Coast Germanists' Workshop are due this Friday, November 14! Details about our gathering next spring at UC Boulder are here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Join us for "Populism and the Far Right: Global Frameworks and Local Crises" on Wednesday, November 19 at 4pm. 📍2111 Bancroft Way & Zoom Register: bit.ly/Populism2025 Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies of @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social & co-sponsored by @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social

2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture: Luís De Camões Between Europe and Asia (1553-1570) 🗓️ 6 November 2025 🕠4-5 p.m. 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...

Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy 🗓️ 6 November 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

🎵 Creators, Influencers and Haters: How Catalan Troubadours Helped Shape Today’s World 📅 November 5 🕛 Noon-1.30pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is now accepting grant proposals up to $25,000 for research and projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. Deadline: March 31, 2026 botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...

As the curator of UC Berkeley’s Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments, Carla Shapreau traces the rich histories of treasured, centuries-old violins and connects them to the next generation of musicians. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/17/t...

Shaping Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span 📅 October 30 🕛 Noon-1.30pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

🌳🍂Graduate Student Workshop with Maruška Svašek | Making Sense: Space, Movement, Interaction 📅 October 29 🕛 1-4p.m. 📍201 Philosophy Hall Space is limited to 20 participants, please register your interest at the link below! events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Join us for After/Lives: The Multiple Temporality of Czech Art, a lecture by Maruška Svašek. 📅 October 28 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall Register for this event on our website! events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

EU Big Tech Laws: An Emerging Public Utilities Regulation 📅 Thursday, October 23 🕛 11am–12pm 📍Room 244, Berkeley Law For more information or accommodations, please contact Toni Mendicino, [email protected] RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to our colleagues for participating in last week's excellent conference "The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1890s-2000s"! ghiworkshops.hypothe...

Join us for a lecture by Maria van Lieshout discussing her new graphic novel "Blackbird". 📅 October 24 🕛 3pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall 🔗Register for this event on our website events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

❄️☀️ Urban life through the seasons! Our 11th Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour features Dorothee Brantz, urban environmental historian and director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin. More info -> history.ubc.ca/events/event... Zoom link -> ubc.zoom.us/j/6192851488...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor with a specialization in international relations. The position will have a joint appointment with the Center for European Studies unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307.... Deadline: October 24

Join us next Tuesday for Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Education: A Case Study of German for International Business Students at a Spanish University, a lecture by Maria Labarta (University of Valencia) 📅 October 21 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

⭐ New Opportunity! Binational Visiting Tandem Program at the GHI's Pacific Office in Berkeley starting September 2026. To apply please fill out the online application form by October 31, 2025. www.ghi-dc.org/programs/pac...

On October 16, Jan Wouters, Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and Ambassador Dirk Wouters will discuss NATO’s role in international affairs. Room 223 Philosophy Hall @ 11 a.m. 🔗Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Join our team! ⭐ The IES is hiring a Program Coordinator Support innovative research and teaching on contemporary and historical Europe, the European Union, and transatlantic relations. 🔗For more information about the role see the link below careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...

Much looking forward to giving a talk at UC Berkeley next week (Wed 15 Oct, noon). Please join if you are in the area!

Join us on October 15 for Risky Business: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Weaponized Interdependence, a lecture by Jakob Hensing. 🔗Register for this event on our website: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Check out this amazing exhibit happening in the Goethe Institut SF! Running from October 1, 2025 through February 27, 2026. www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve....

Call for Papers: REMS Graduate Conference Power and the Art of Writing Interested graduate students should submit a brief abstract (~200 words) of their project to [email protected] by October 15. Please contact Gabriela Rodríguez ([email protected]) with questions

We invite you to an info session by Prof. Jeroen Dewulf and Elise Meerburg, representing Ghent University (Belgium), on October 7 at 3pm. events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30... We look forward to seeing you there! 🇧🇪

💫Call for Applications! The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2026/27 Apply online at: ppfpapply.ucop.edu 📅DEADLINE: November 1, 2025 For more information visit online: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/ email: [email protected]

As co-director of Spanish Studies at the Institute of European Studies [@ucberkeleyies.bsky.social], I am very happy to invite you to our first talk of the year by visiting jr. researcher Silvia Rusiñol!! Please join us if you are in Berkeley!! events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Join Spanish Studies Program Co-Director Professor Alex Saum Pascual in conversation with emerging scholars pushing the bounds of interdisciplinary work on Spain and the regions of Iberia! Register here -> events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

2025 Gerald D. Feldman Lecture The Complex Legacies of Nazism: Current perspectives on History and Memory of National Socialism Register for this event on our website: 🔗 events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...

Join us on SEPT 16 for Church Bells and the Toll of Culture in Postwar Germany 🔔 Now in Room 223 Philosophy Hall, UC Berkeley. Register for this event on our website: 🔗https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/303616-church-bells-and-the-toll-of-culture-in-postwar

📅Save the date! We have lots of fantastic events this semester, keep an eye on our socials for the details 👀 Register for events on our website, hit RSVP on the event you want to attend! 🔗https://events.berkeley.edu/ies See you there Euro Bears 🐻🇪🇺

Join us for our first event of the Fall semester! On September 2, Thomas König, Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim, will discuss EU decision making from a game theoretical perspective See more on the event page below! events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/29...

Bear-y glad you’re back! 🐻 Welcome to Fall semester ‘25 from the IES 🍁🍂 Be sure to check our Instagram and bluesky for updates about our events! @ucberkeleyies ✨

💫Deadline Extended: International Parliamentary Scholarship of the German Bundestag 📅 Deadline: 31 August 2025 🔗Find out more: www.germany.info/ips

Take a look at our Spring Semester Newsletter! 🌸 Read about all the IES events, visiting speakers, and conferences that took place this spring at the link below ⬇️ tinyurl.com/IESBerkeley25