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DATE: APRIL 29, 2022, 3:30PM - 5:00PM PST LOCATION: SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX CONFERENCE ROOM, 8TH FLOOR, SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING, UC BERKELEY RECEPTION TO FOLLOW REGISTER HERE John Sides is a leading scholar of American Politics. His new book "The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy" is forthcoming this fall. He is an author of "Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential...

Lecture | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | Zoom Speaker: Heribert Dieter, Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin Moderator: Vinod Aggarwal, Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Chair in Asian Studies, Political Science; Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center Sponsor: Institute of European Studies For decades, Germany was following a policy on China that emphasized the potential benefits from trade and investment...

Please join us in congratulating Department alum, Grant Harris, on his appointment as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry & Analysis for President Biden. Mr. Harris previously served in the Obama White House as special assistant for African affairs. You can check out his career path on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gtharris/.

Dr. Jyotirindra (“Jyoti”) DasGupta, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, passed away peacefully at age 88 on March 17, 2022. Professor DasGupta spent 61 years of his life in Berkeley; he loved both the university and the town. He first came to Berkeley from Kolkata, India as a doctoral student in August of 1961. He completed his PhD in 1966, joined the faculty in 1965, and...

We're excited to share that Professor Aila Matanock is one of the recipients of the Department of Defense's grants for the FY2021 Minerva Research Initiative. You can read more about the awards and recipients here: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2944623/department-of-defense-awards-287m-in-grants-for-the-fy2021-minerva-research-ini/. Professor Matanock was awarded funds to work on her project titled, Post-Conflict Security Structures and Citizen Buy-In. One of her co-PIs is a UCB Political Science Alumni David Dow...

On November 19, Maya Rosales, was awarded a 2022 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship following a highly competitive nationwide contest. The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University, supports extraordinary individuals who want to pursue a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. The Director of...