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“In Fall 2026, through a series of compelling installations across UC Berkeley’s campus, the Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here exhibition will share artworks amplifying Marshallese voices and...Read more about Nov. 23 Talk: Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania

Elizabeth R. Nugent studies the politics and political psychology of authoritarianism and religion in the Middle East. She is the...Read more about Nov. 12 Book Talk | Surviving Exile: Why Activists Persist and Why it Matters Back Home

“In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare, a poison he thought might save his life. Richard Gill had learned that local tribes used curare-laced blow darts to kill animals, but it was also potentially a...Read more about Nov. 12 Talk: The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon

U.S. human rights diplomacy has had a mixed record of both commitment and impact, hyperbole and hypocrisy, since emerging institutionally half a century ago. Now degraded by the broader disruption of American foreign policy, this agenda faces an uncertain future. Can U.S. human...Read more about Nov. 5 Talk: U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy: From Disruption to Resurrection and Reinvention?: A Panel Discussion with Three Former Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

In conjunction with the exhibition ...Read more about Oct 29. Film Screening | Celluloid Frontiers: A Missing Can of Film and Stop Genocide

IIS and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies welcome Loubna Mrie to discuss her life story and book Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion and Survival in Syria, a finalist for this year's...Read more about Oct. 15 Book Talk | Defiance: Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria

A. Bradley Potter is a Senior Analyst at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also a Visiting Scholar in...Read more about Oct. 12 Talk | A Day in the Life at the U.S. Department of State

What if AI could be more than a threat to democracy—and instead become a powerful tool for strengthening it?

In this interactive two-hour session, we’ll explore practical ways...Read more about Oct. 9 Political Salon | How to Use AI to Build a Better Democracy

Co-sponsors: Berkeley Institute of Security and Governance, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab

...Read more about Oct. 7 Book Talk | Enemies in Agreement: Political Volatility and the Design of Arms Control

Saturday, September 19, 2026 | 1 - 6 pm
Peacock Meadow, Golden Gate Park, 240 John F Kennedy Drive, San Francisco, CA 94117

The European Union Delegation's San Francisco office invites Cal students to join the third edition of ...Read more about Europe in the Park: A Celebration of European Culture in San Francisco!

Join the Alexander Hamilton Society of Berkeley for their first speaker event of the year: a conversation on...Read more about Oct. 2 Event | Cross-Strait Relations and U.S Foreign Policy Toward China

The warning signs of the 1930s feel alarmingly familiar today: nationalist rhetoric, revisionism, military rearmament, political polarization. The liberal...Read more about Oct. 1 Book Talk | Are We Living in a 1938 Moment?

For too long, the field of international justice has been satisfied with “paper victories” - legal precedents and symbolic judgments that look good in a briefing but fail to manifest...Read more about Sep. 28 Talk | Human Rights for Victims of Conflict in a Fragmenting World

What is the most effective means by which the United States can support popular struggles for freedom around the world? Does Washington have the credibility to support such movements in light of its...Read more about Sep. 23 Talk | The United States and Global Anti-Authoritarian Movements

On Wednesday, August 26th 2026, Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, joined leading UC Berkeley scholars for a discussion on the future of the transatlantic partnership. This is part of the EU Ambassadors Book Collection initiative...Read more about Aug. 26 Event Recap | Europe, the U.S. & the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship

IIS recently onboarded the inaugural cohort of the International Policy Research Discovery (IPRD) program. Ten Berkeley students are conducting summer resarch on the conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar, and Democratic Republic of Congo for the human rights organization PAEMA (...Read more about IIS launches the International Policy Research Discovery (IPRD) program

April 29, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Geballe Room - 220 Stephens Hall