Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Meet some of our returning Undergraduate Research Apprentices! 🎓✨ Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Institute of European Studies is proud to support the next generation of scholars through our URAP program. These bright minds are diving deep into European studies research — and it all starts with your support. 💙

Check out what the IES’ undergraduate research apprentices were up to last semester! We’re excited to see what this spring has in store. 🌟

Check out what our Undergraduate Research Apprentices were up to in the Fall Semester! We’re so excited to see what they do this Spring!

2025 Ana Hatherly Lecture - Prof. Kenneth David Jackson: Luís De Camões Between Europe and Asia (1553-1570)
6 November 2025, 4-5 p.m. 201 Philosophy
Hall
The verses that Camões certainly wrote during his seventeen years (1553-1569) in Asia constitute a geography of his exile and tribulations. His poetry is colored by confessions of loss and longing for Portugal, usually addressed to a muse, and to his vivid memories of his strange condition. Although his poems are filled with desperate complaints, Camões finds recourse in philosophy and the very tradition inherited from Petrarch in which he writes and thinks. He is the first great author to write European literature in Asia, drawing on his vast knowledge of classical literature, culture, history and philosophy. His long exile in Asia provided the material and measure of his poetic development.

Register on our website:
https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/310054-2025-ana-hatherly-lecture-luis-de-camoes-between

This week, the IES and GHI Pacific Office welcomed Alice Goff (University of Chicago) who gave a lecture titled “Church Bells and the Toll of Culture in Postwar Germany”.

Goff discussed the symbolic significance of church bells in the reconstruction of German identity post national socialism, and the restitution campaigns aimed at reuniting German congregations with the bells that they had surrendered to aid the war effort in the years following WWII.

Many thanks to our attendees for their contributions and to for co-sponsoring this event!

Bear-y glad you’re back! 🐻

Welcome to Fall semester ‘25 from the IES 🍁🍂

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Join us NEXT WEDNESDAY for a lecture by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway). Register now for "Making peace in the shadows: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process" : https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/283139-niall-dochartaigh-making-peace-in-the-shadows-back-ch

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

Join us TODAY at 12pm in 201 Philosophy Hall for a lecture by Luigi Prada (Uppsala University). Register now for "Colonial philology? Neo-hieroglyphic inscriptions, 19th century Egyptology, and European politics" : https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/290349-luigi-prada-colonial-philology-neo-hieroglyphic-inscr

Co-sponsors:
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Italian Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Center for African Studies
Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology

Join us TOMORROW at 12pm for a lecture by Luigi Prada (Uppsala University). Register now for "Colonial philology? Neo-hieroglyphic inscriptions, 19th century Egyptology, and European politics" : https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/290349-luigi-prada-colonial-philology-neo-hieroglyphic-inscr

Co-sponsors:
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Italian Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Center for African Studies
Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology

Join us APRIL 30 for a lecture by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway). Register now for "Making peace in the shadows: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process" : https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/283139-niall-dochartaigh-making-peace-in-the-shadows-back-ch

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

Join us NEXT WEDNESDAY for a lecture by Luigi Prada (Uppsala University). Register now for "Colonial philology? Neo-hieroglyphic inscriptions, 19th century Egyptology, and European politics" : https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/290349-luigi-prada-colonial-philology-neo-hieroglyphic-inscr

Co-sponsors:
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Italian Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Center for African Studies
Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology