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16 04, 2018

In the press: our Alumnus, Jonathan Mboyo Esole

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:30:41+01:0016 April 2018|

Recently, there has been a lot of news in the press, online and on the radio about FWA Alumnus Jonathan Mboyo Esole (2001/2002, Mathematics at Cambridge). Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University, Jonathan is the recipient of a Next Einstein Award, recognising Africa’s best young [...]

20 10, 2017

The birth of an international legal career: interview with our Alumna Ayesha Vardag

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:30:50+01:0020 October 2017|

Ayesha Vardag is the President and founder of top family law firm Vardags. In 1990/1991 she was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to study at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In this interview, published in our 2016 Activity Report, she recalls the racy year she spent in Brussels and explains how [...]

27 09, 2017

In the press: our Alumna Victoria Van Lennep, co-founder of Lendable, “the next generation lending platform”

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:31:05+01:0027 September 2017|

Wiener-Anspach Alumna Victoria Van Lennep is the co-founder with Martin Kissinger of Lendable, an online lending platform that "aims to undercut banks on speed, red tape and price", as The Independent recently wrote. Victoria was granted a postgraduate fellowship in 2012/2013 to undertake an MSc in Nature, Society and [...]

24 01, 2017

On the path to diplomacy: interview with Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Pierre Vaesen

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:31:20+01:0024 January 2017|

Pierre Vaesen, Honorary Ambassador of Belgium, recalls his experience in the Seventies at the University of Cambridge and coments on his long diplomatic career. You left with a scholarship from the Foundation for the 1973/74 academic year. How, at that time, did you find this opportunity? Was it a [...]

16 03, 2015

Empathy, rhetoric, democracy: an interview with Victor Ferry

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:32:09+01:0016 March 2015|

In 2014/2015 Victor Ferry, PhD in Arts, was granted a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a research entitled "Exercising empathy: Rhetorics of others' points of view", under the supervision of Dr Fiona Macintosh at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. In this interview he presents the topic challenges [...]

14 10, 2014

Urban development in Addis Ababa: an interview with Marco Di Nunzio

swingFwaAdmin2026-05-11T13:43:56+02:0014 October 2014|

In 2012, Marco Di Nunzio, DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology, was granted a two-year fellowship to pursue his research on the topic “Tales of the Unequal City. Political Control and Social Inequality in Addis Ababa” under the supervision of Prof. Mathieu Hilgers at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes [...]

16 06, 2014

Living with the dead? Lucy Wadeson on the burial practices of the Nabateans

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:32:28+01:0016 June 2014|

Lucy Wadeson is a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at the ULB. She recently came back from Petra, where she excavated with Prof. Laurent Tholbecq (CReA-Patrimoine). In this interview she outlines the subject of her research: the Nabatean funerary culture and its many mysteries. You are specialized in the archaeology of [...]

19 05, 2014

Interview – Nathalie Brack on the many ways of being a eurosceptic MEP

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:32:38+01:0019 May 2014|

Wiener-Anspach fellow Nathalie Brack, an expert in EU institutions currently based in Oxford, recently published an article on euroscepticism in the European Parliament. She is also the author, with Olivier Costa, of the volume How the EU really works (Ashgate 2014). On the eve of the 2014 European elections, [...]

14 05, 2014

Interview with Sir Michael Wood, Wiener-Anspach fellow in 1969/1970

swingFwaAdmin2024-05-31T11:22:07+02:0014 May 2014|

In March Sir Michael Wood, Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge), came to Brussels to give a lecture on international customary law. On that occasion he granted us an interview touching on his experience as a Wiener-Anspach fellow (one of the very first!), [...]

2 05, 2013

The silences of Babel: an interview with Wiener – Anspach fellow Stefan Goltzberg

swingFwaAdmin2021-01-26T15:33:01+01:002 May 2013|

Wiener-Anspach Fellow Stefan Goltzberg guides us through the many translations and interpretations of the story of the Tower of Babel. Read the interview in French

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