IIS Awards 11 Students with Undergraduate Merit Scholarships for Spring 2019
Awarded students come from ten different academic departments and will travel to six countries across four continents to conduct research on international studies next semester.
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Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Crossings in a Transnational World
Explores the interrelationships of the categories “native,” “immigrant,” and “refugee” at a time of tightening borders. Organized by Beth Piatote (Native American Studies) and Leti Volpp (Law).
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Hidden Living Landscapes
Conversations on nature, culture, knowledge, resilience and loss in the Andes of South America, led by Christine Hastorf (Anthropology) and Lisa Trever (Art History).
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Seeing Like A Valley: Studying The Global Impacts Of Silicon Valley's Moral Visions
Seeks to understand the role Silicon Valley plays in shaping not just new technologies but moral visions, and how moral visions are ‘exported’ alongside technologies.
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Water Management: Past and Future Adaptation
Both the developed and developing world confront intensifying impacts on rivers and other water resources. This seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach to these challenges by examining how societies have adapted to variability in the past and considers the tools we have to manage future variability in river flows and sediment loads.
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Law And History: Transnational And Comparative Perspectives
Organized by Stephanie Jones-Rogers (History), David Lieberman (Law), Rebecca McLennan (History) and Christopher Tomlins (Law), goals of this interdisciplinary faculty program are to enhance and better coordinate the large body of campus research that connects law and history.
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Featured Videos

Editing the Code of Life: The Future of Genome Editing

Dr. Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley

Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era

Professor T.V. Paul, McGill University

Is There a Light at the End of the North Korean Nuclear Tunnel?

Siegfried S. Hecker, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

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Past Events

Documentary Screening: The Magnificent Journey | Times and Tales of Democracy

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 16, 2019, 4:00PM to 6:00PM PDT

223 Moses Hall

Will China Save the Planet?

Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director for Asia, Natural Resources Defense Council

Apr 04, 2019, 4:00PM to 5:30PM PDT

223 Moses Hall

Balancing Between the Institutional and Alternative: Strategies for Collectively Performing Cinema across the Geographic and Ideological Borders of the Cold War

Megan Hoetger, UC Berkeley Performance Studies

Mar 07, 2019, 5:00PM to 6:00PM PST

223 Moses Hall

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Announcements

IIS Awards 25 Students with Pre-Dissertation Research Grants for Summer 2019

This funding is intended to support initial fieldwork by graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy during Summer 2019. Projects are international and/or comparative in nature, related to the study of languages, and/or involve substantial research outside of the United States.