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IES Senior Fellow Matthew Specter quoted in the New York Times on Realism in US National Security Strategy.

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January 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Contesting Pluralism(s): How to learn from Turkey and “Non-Western” Cases

🗓️ 12 February 🕛 Noon 📍201 Philosophy Hall

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January 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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⭐ 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...
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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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
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January 17, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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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

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January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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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
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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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
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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

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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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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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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:
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October 20, 2025 at 9:11 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 ->
ubc.zoom.us/j/6192851488...
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 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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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:

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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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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:

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October 7, 2025 at 9:24 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
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We invite you to an info session by Prof. Jeroen Dewulf and Elise Meerburg, representing Ghent University (Belgium), on October 7 at 3pm.

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We look forward to seeing you there! 🇧🇪
September 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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💫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]
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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...
September 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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:

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September 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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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
September 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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📅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 🐻🇪🇺
September 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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...
August 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM