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Can we Disentangle AI from Governmentality? a Foucauldian Perspective

🗓️ 2 December 🕛Noon 📍Library of French Thought, Dwinelle 4229

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November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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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

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November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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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...
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture: Luís De Camões Between Europe and Asia (1553-1570)

🗓️ 6 November 2025 🕠4-5 p.m. 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture: Luís de Camões between Europe and Asia (1553-1570)
The Center for Portuguese Studies presents: 2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture: Luís de Camões between Europe and Asia (1553-1570) The verses that Camõ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy

🗓️ 6 November 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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Brandon Bloch | Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy
Professor Brandon Bloch presents findings from his new book, Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-N...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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🎵 Creators, Influencers and Haters: How Catalan Troubadours Helped Shape Today’s World

📅 November 5 🕛 Noon-1.30pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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Miriam Cabré | Creators, Influencers and Haters: How Catalan Troubadours Helped Shape Today’s World
The troubadours, active from the 11th to the 13th centuries, are fundamental to Western literature. They pioneered poetic forms and expressions of ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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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

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Research & Project Grants | The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
The BIAAS seeks grant proposals for research or projects aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including Habsburg Austria.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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...
The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them - Berkeley News
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 musici...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Shaping Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span

📅 October 30 🕛 Noon-1.30pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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October 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🌳🍂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!

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Graduate Student Workshop with Maruška Svašek | Making Sense: Space, Movement, Interaction
This three-hour multi-sensory workshop builds on a series of similar events held between 2023 and 2025 in Belfast, Delhi, Barcelona, Hanoi, Beijing...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Join us for After/Lives: The Multiple Temporality of Czech Art, a lecture by Maruška Svašek.

📅 October 28 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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Maruška Svašek | After/Lives: The Multiple Temporality of Czech Art
The talk investigates temporal aspects of Czech art production, drawing on Nicolai Ssorin-Chaikov’s argument that ‘time is relational rather th...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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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]

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October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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...
Group photo of participants in the workshop "The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1890s-2000s"
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Join us for a lecture by Maria van Lieshout discussing her new graphic novel "Blackbird".

📅 October 24 🕛 3pm 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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October 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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❄️☀️ 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 ->
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October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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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

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Deadline: October 24
Teaching Assistant Professor
The Teaching Assistant Professor, with a specialization in international relations, will be located in the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense (PWAD) and will have a joint appointment with the Cente...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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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

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October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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⭐ 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.

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Pacific Office Tandem Fellowship – GHI Washington
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October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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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.

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October 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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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

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October 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Much looking forward to giving a talk at UC Berkeley next week (Wed 15 Oct, noon). Please join if you are in the area!
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Join us on October 15 for Risky Business: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Weaponized Interdependence, a lecture by Jakob Hensing.

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October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Join us on October 15 for Risky Business: Transatlantic Relations in a World of Weaponized Interdependence, a lecture by Jakob Hensing.

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October 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Check out this amazing exhibit happening in the Goethe Institut SF! Running from October 1, 2025 through February 27, 2026.

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Exhibition Opening & Talk: BLACK IN BERLIN: IDENTITY WITHIN IDENTITY - Goethe-Institut USA
Sun, 10/05/2025 – Exhibition by Berlin-based Ethiopian-born artist Yero Adugna Eticha, with an opening talk featuring Eticha and Nkechi Njaka, moderated by George McCalman
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October 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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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
September 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM