Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Struggling to be Modern, prof. Jan de Vries' keynote lecture at the 20th ICNS Conference, is now up on YouTube:

There's still time to register for Struggling to be Modern in late 17th century Amsterdam: Structure and Agency at the "Aalmoezeniersweeshuis," a lecture by Professor Jan de Vries: https://berkeley.zoom.us//tJYlcOGtpzwuE9xDmD4nzppGGwb7BYVd

Prize-winning historian Mae Ngai will give the keynote lecture on "The Chinese Question: Chinese Migration and Global Politics in the Nineteenth Century" as par...t of the conference "Mobilities, Exclusion, and Migrants' Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective" on Monday, June 7 at 6 a.m. PDT (9 a.m. EDT). Apologies for the early time but our three day conference (June 7 - 9), organized by Albert Manke and Sören Urbansky (both: Pacific Regional Office of the GHI) features panelists from Asia, Australia, Europe and the US, and we did our best to find a time when everyone is somewhat awake. This virtual conference brings together historians and scholars from related disciplines to revisit the exclusion of migrants and their agency in coping with exclusion in light of the dynamics of mobility in the Pacific realm. Panel discussions are open to the public. For more information and the full conference program, please visit the conference website: https://mobilities.hypotheses.org. The conference is part of the Max Weber Foundation’s collaborative research project Knowledge Unbound, module Interaction and Knowledge in the Pacific Region: Entanglements and Disentanglements: https://wissen.hypotheses.org//submodule-1b-international-

TOMORROW join us for a lecture by Professor Jan de Vries on one of the figures of the Early Enlightenment in 17th century Amsterdam. Register now: https://berkeley.zoom.us//tJYlcOGtpzwuE9xDmD4nzppGGwb7BYVd

#Bloomsday is in two weeks! We're celebrating with the launch of U22, a new podcast exploring readers' journeys through #Ulysses from around the world. Join us! https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ies/ #JamesJoyce #GlobalIrish #CreativeIreland #DigitalHumanities

Hats off to our UC Berkeley team for an impressive #SchumanChallenge finals debut! Thanks European Union in the United States for organizing and to all the judges for giving our students this wonderful opportunity! We're already looking forward to 2021!

Huge congrats to our IES team for advancing to the 2020 #SchumanChallenge finals representing UC Berkeley! Tune in now to watch them compete live: https://youtu.be/N5VkIrI7Sa4

This Monday 11/2: Center Austria - University of New Orleans concludes our virtual Austrian Studies series with Gerald Steinacher on identity + nationalism in South Tyrol. Watch the lecture and join the live Q&A here: ies.berkeley.edu/austrian/events... Co-sponsored by the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and the UMN Center for Austrian Studies

Our IES team is thrilled to compete for the first time in today's 2020 #SchumanChallenge representing UC Berkeley! Go Bears! #EUintheUS

Join us next week for a conversation on race and the making of national identities in fascist Italy, with Eileen Ryan (Temple University College of Liberal Arts) Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Italian Studies and the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley Register @ https://tinyurl.com/y52r946j

Course News: Explore issues of equality and vulnerability from a comparative US-Italy perspective, with visiting professor Gianfrancesco Zanetti in the UC Berkeley Department of Italian Studies Details @ https://classes.berkeley.edu//2021-spring-italian-235-001-

How did the transatlantic slave trade impact language in the colonial US? Hear from our director Jeroen Dewulf at this exciting lecture hosted by the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State - Thursday, 10/22 at 7pm PT Register at: https://fresnostate.zoom.us//reg/WN_MOHh98-tS26bmbt_T0LjOA

This Wednesday at 12pm PT! Don't miss our conversation with sociologist Kimberly DaCosta (NYU Gallatin) on Black Irish identity and contemporary racial dynamics in Europe and the US. Learn more and register here: https://tinyurl.com/y6lmu4sp Co-sponsored by African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley and the UC Berkeley English Department

Join our friends at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, this Friday 10/15, for a Q&A with Ewa Wylek --- Part 3 in our "Austrian Identities" series, co-hosted with the Center for Austrian Studies & Center Austria - University of New Orleans! Watch the pre-recorded lecture and RSVP @ https://www.ualberta.ca//lectures-and-po/ewa-wylezek1.html

Check out IES advisory board member Charles M. Huber, sharing his perspectives in this recent interview on Europe-Africa relations, racism, and more (in German) https://youtu.be/Iv_CZlQlwdw

LES INTERVENANTS DE LA CONFÉRENCE DU 8 OCTOBRE [#WEBINAR #ETATSUNIS2020 #polUS2020] Jeroen Dewulf est professeur et directeur de l' Institute of European Stud...ies, UC Berkeley. L'IES est le principal centre de recherche et d'enseignement sur l'Europe de l'Ouest. Par le biais d'événements publics interdisciplinaires, de programmes de recherche et de sensibilisation des communautés, l'IES cherche à enrichir la compréhension de l'Europe à l' University of California, Berkeley et dans tout l'État de Californie. Les recherches de Jeroen Dewul portent sur un grand nombre de sujets tels que la langue allemande, l'histoire du Portugal postcolonial, la traite des esclaves dans l'Atlantique et de manière plus générale la culture et la #politique européenne. Pour s'inscrire au webinaire retransmis depuis l'Hôtel Le Marois : france-ameriques.fr