Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies

Jakob Hensing @jhensing.bsky.social · 1h

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

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 18h

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...

1 1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 18h

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...

3

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 1d

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....

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

www.goethe.de

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 11d

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

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 12d

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! 🇧🇪

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 19d

💫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]

Reposted by UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies

Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social · 22d

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...

1 1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 22d

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...

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 28d

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...

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 28d

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

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · 29d

📅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 🐻🇪🇺

1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Aug 27

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 ✨

1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Jul 31

💫Deadline Extended: International Parliamentary Scholarship of the German Bundestag

📅 Deadline: 31 August 2025

🔗Find out more: www.germany.info/ips

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · May 12

Join us TOMORROW for a talk by Janine Silga, EU Policy on Migration and Development in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A New Iteration of the Colonial Legacy?: events.berkeley.edu/...

Co-Sponsor
The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · May 1

Join us MAY 13 for a talk by Janine Silga, EU Policy on Migration and Development in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A New Iteration of the Colonial Legacy?: events.berkeley.edu/...

Co-Sponsor
The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us TOMORROW at 12pm for a lecture by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, "Making peace in the shadows: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process" : events.berkeley.edu/...

Co-sponsors:
Irish Studies
Political Science
Institute of International Studies
Celtic Studies Program

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 28

Democratic Knowledge under Attack: Trump vs. Academic Freedom | Online Discussion

UC Berkeley's Professor John Connelly will be part of this online event discussing the impact of the Trump administration's policies on academic freedom.

Find out more:
europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

Democratic Knowledge under Attack: Trump vs. Academic Freedom | Online Discussion

When? Tuesday, 29 April 2025 | 17:00-18:30 (CEST) | 8 a.m. (Pacific), 11 a.m. (Eastern) Where? Online via Zoom - link below No registration required

europeamerica.de

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 25

Starting this weekend!
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/29...

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 23

APRIL 27-30: NO BORDER: The Films of Sylvain George. Free Screenings! events.berkeley.edu/...

Sponsors:
UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies
Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry
Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence
UC Berkeley Department of French
The European Union

NO BORDER: The Films of Sylvain George:”Paris est une Fête (un film en 18 vagues)”

Join us for the opening night of “No Border: A Sylvain George Retrospective” with a special screening of 2017’s Paris est une fête (un film ...

events.berkeley.edu

1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join us NEXT WEDNESDAY for a lecture by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, "Making peace in the shadows: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process" : events.berkeley.edu/...

Co-sponsors:
Irish Studies
Political Science
Institute of International Studies
Celtic Studies Program

1 1

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join us TOMORROW for a talk by Luigi Prada, Colonial philology? Neo-hieroglyphic inscriptions, 19th century Egyptology, and European politics events.berkeley.edu/...
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Italian Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Center for African Studies

Reposted by UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies

niallodoc.bsky.social @niallodoc.bsky.social · Apr 16

I'll be talking at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social about Back-channel Negotiation during the N. Ireland conflict on Wed April 30th at 11am. Registration & more info here: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/28...
@uniofgalway.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social

Niall Ó Dochartaigh | Making peace in the shadows: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process

Drawing on a rich store of new evidence that has emerged in recent years Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway) examines how and why secret ba...

events.berkeley.edu

5 9

UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join us APRIL 25 -26 for Bordered Life and the Right to Move, an international conference examining borders, race, and migration today in the United States, Europe, and across the globe: events.berkeley.edu/...