Institute of European Studies Spring 2017 Newsletter ear Friends of the Institute of European Studies, PhD at UC Berkeley under the direction of Prof. Arthur Askins. The D Hatherly Chair will annually bring distinguished speakers from Por- It is with great pleasure that I am sending you our Spring 2017 tugal to the Berkeley campus. Inaugural speaker was Carlos Reis, newsletter, made with the assistance of our team of undergraduate Professor in Portuguese literature at the University of Coimbra and reporters led by Lauren Dooley. The results of the general elections this year’s UC Berkeley Gulbenkian Chair in Portuguese Studies. in the Netherlands in March of this year and the recent choice of Emmanuel Macron as the new president of France seem to indicate IES was also proud to welcome Sweden’s top diplomat, Ruth that anti-EU sentiments are declining. However, in both elections, Jacoby, and the leading politician of the German Greens and current support for the populist right increased substantially while Euroscep- President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Ralf Fuecks, who both tic groups on the far-left also gained support, which shows that such spoke about the future of Western democracies. Another highlight sentiments still linger. In the coming months, we will see how an- of the semester was the presentation by Matt Beech, Visiting Pro- ti-EU sentiments further evolve. fessor from Hull University at our Center for British Studies, whose lecture on Brexit has been viewed by over a thousand people on The many challenges Europe currently faces underline once the IES YouTube Channel. Brexit was also the focal topic of a panel more how important it is for our University to have a strong Insti- discussion organized by our Irish Studies Program featuring Colum tute of European Studies. We are, therefore, particularly grateful to Hatchell, Vice Consul of Ireland, and Mark Bevir, Director of the those of you who joined us for the IES Gala with Jackson Janes, IES British Studies Program. Another context in which the effects of President of the American Institute for Contemporary German Stud- Brexit emerged as critical was during the discussion between Hele- ies, who spoke about the rise of populism and its consequences for na Malikova, member of the European Commission and IES’ current transatlantic relations. With fifty people in attendance, this first IES EU fellow, and Philip Grant, Consul-General of Ireland, about the fundraising gala was a big success. A big THANK YOU to all those EU State Aid Investigation into Apple’s Tax Arrangement with Ire- who contributed to this success, in particular our Senior Fellow Da- land. Furthermore, IES gave special attention to the elections held vid Clay Large. in the Netherlands (with a lecture by Jeroen Dewulf) and in France (with a lecture by Emmanuel Comte from the UC Berkeley Depart- I am also proud to announce the creation of a new Austri- ment of History). With the support of the Social Science Matrix, IES an Studies Program at IES that, with the support of the Austrian also organized its third graduate student conference in European Marshall Plan Foundation, will make research grants available for Studies. The conference organizers, Camilla Hawthorne, Margaret Berkeley graduate students and connect UC Berkeley to the glob- Cychosz and Abraham Ramirez, invited Fatima El-Tayeb and Sal- al Austrian Studies working group, with partners in New Orleans, man Sayyid as keynote speakers for a session that was moderated Minneapolis, Edmonton, Leiden, Olmütz, Budapest, Jerusalem, and by Berkeley professor Stephen Small. Vienna. The first lecture in the IES Austrian Studies Program was delivered by Dirk Rupnow, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. Back: IES Associate Director Akasemi Newsome, IES Administrative Direc- tor Gia White, IES Director Jeroen Dewulf, Newsletter Editor-in-Chief Lauren Furthermore, IES inaugurated the Ana Hatherly Chair in Por- Dooley; Front: EU Center Executive Director Deolinda Adão, IES Events Coor- tuguese Studies, sponsored by the Camões Institute. The chair is dinator Heike Friedman, French Studies Program Assistant Director Mila Mac- named after a well-known Portuguese poet and artist, who did her Bain 2 Spring Newsletter 2017 INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES With the support of Norma von Ragenfeld-Feldman, the DAAD, In this newsletter, you will find a series of interviews with the American Council on Germany, and the Daimler Foundation, guests of the Institute and brief reports of the many events that were our Center for German and European Studies brought a number of organized this semester. If you regret to have missed some of our prominent speakers to the Institute, including Max Gruenig (Presi- events, please check out the IES Youtube Channel, where you will dent of the Ecologic Institute), Molly Loberg (CPSU San Luis Obis- find a selection of our lectures. po), Dirk Moses (Univ. of Sydney), Eva Marlene Hausteiner (Univ. of Bonn), Germany’s top diplomat at the UN Thomas Seidel, Timothy We are looking forward to the upcoming semester, especial- Scott Brown (Northeastern University), Anja Mihr (Humboldt-Viadri- ly with the official inauguration of GHI West, the est-AmericanW na Center on Governance), Paul Betts (Univ. of Oxford), Cornelia branch of the German Historical Institute, that is now based at our Schu (Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migra- Institute. Many more events are already in preparation. We are tion), Jonathan Long (Durham Univ.), Swiss filmmaker Stefan Haupt, proud to offer you all these events at no charge. As always, howev- and the incoming UC Berkeley DAAD lecturer Isabel Richter. er, we appreciate any support you can give to help us sustain our high quality interdisciplinary programming on Europe. To donate, During this semester, IES also welcomed two prominent dele- please click here or contact me personally, and I will be pleased to gations from European universities interested in strengthening co- tell you more about the Institute’s funding opportunities. operation with UC Berkeley: the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, and Uppsala University in Sweden. Ms. Azita Raji, former I wish you all a pleasant summer break and hope to welcome you US Ambassador to Sweden, also visited IES as part of a delegation again to one of our events at IES in the fall. of Nordic consuls. Our Nordic guests learned about the IES Nor- dic Studies Program, supported by the Norway House Foundation, With kindest regards, the Pro Suecia Foundation and the Finlandia Foundation. Over the Jeroen Dewulf course of the semester, the program organized lectures by Gro Ei- rin Dyrnes of Innovation Norway, Ismo Söderling, former Director of the Institute of Migration in Turku, Veronica Salovaara (Univ. of Hel- sinki), Jeppe Bundsgaard (Aarhus Univ.), Ludvig Norman (Uppsala Univ.), and Svein Henrik Nyhus from the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo. The organization of so many exciting events would not have been possible without the support of my colleagues Gia White, Heike Friedman, Deolinda Adão, Akasemi Newsome, Nathan Pip- penger, Sirpa Tuomainen, Lauren Dooley, and Mila MacBain. IES says goodbye to Lauren, who is leaving for the University of Cam- bridge to start a Masters in Comparative Literature, and wishes to thank her for her exceptional dedication to our Institute, first as a URAP student and later as a member of the IES staff. Highlights from the inaugural IES fundraising gala held in April 2017 3 Spring Newsletter 2017 INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES The Institute of European Studies in the News! IES Grant Recipients In January 2017, JSTOR highlighted IES Director Jeroen ary Shore (Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad De- IES Berkeley—FSU Jena Pre-Dissertation and IES Berkeley-Austria Pre-Dissertation and Dis- Dewulf’s article on clandestine literature in the Nether- cisions and A Sense of the Enemy) in his reading list for Dissertation Research Fellowship: sertation Fellowships: lands during the Nazi occupation. You can read the article NSC staff. Read more here. Agnieszka Smelkowska (History) Sebastian Haselbeck (German) on JSTOR. Makoto Fukumoto (Pol. Science) In February, March and April 2017, IES visiting scholar IES Berkeley—University of Luxembourg Re- In January 2017, a delegation from Jena, led by Minister Matt Beech (Univ. of Hull) was interviewed by CNBC, the Wolfgang Tiefensee, visited Berkeley’s Institute of Europe- BBC and Cal TV on the consequences of Brexit for the UK search Fellowship: IES Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Graduate Stu- an Studies. You can watch a report on this visit and an in- and US-British relations. You can listen to his BBC inter- Makoto Fukumoto (Pol. Science) dent Dissertation Fellowship: terview with IES Director Jeroen Dewulf through JenaTV. view or watch him on Cal TV and CNBC. He also com- Maelia Dubois (History) pared the UK’s Labour Party to the US’s Democrats for IES Berkeley-Greifswald Undergraduate and In February 2017, IES affiliated faculty member Greg CalTV. Graduate Fellowships: Castillo was the guest curator of the BAMPFA exhibit Hip- Monica Sheffer (Environmental Sciences) pie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia. You can read an In February 2017, IES affiliated faculty member Bar- article about the Exhibit in the Italian journal Domus and ry Eichengreen published a column on the Euro in IES Irish Studies Program Summer Research listen to a report on the exhibit on German national radio. Bloomberg View entitled “Don’t Sell the Euro Short: It’s Here to Stay.” You can read it here. Grants: In February 2017, IES director Jeroen Dewulf was inter- Andrew Key (Dept. English) viewed on the New Books Network about his latest book In April 2017, IES affiliated faculty member Katerina Li- Max Stevenson (Dept. English) publication with the University of Mississippi Press on the nos was selected for a prestigious Andrew Carnegie fel- slave community in New Netherland.