On May 12, 2025, at the awards ceremony of the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology, Rebecca Mirzabekiantz was awarded the Ganshof van der Meersch Prize. Established by our Foundation in 1994, this prize rewards the merits of a student with an exemplary academic record and who earned their [...]
Following a successful first edition in 2024 with Marius Gilbert and Anne Teller, the second edition of the Wiener-Anspach Alumni Talks took place in Brussels on May 13, 2025. For this equally captivating discussion, our Alumnae Clémence Mathieu and Annabelle Oliva, together with Kim Oosterlinck, explored the many dimensions [...]
On Tuesday, May 13, the Laboratoire de Musicologie of the Université libre de Bruxelles will host a workshop dedicated to the relation between music and migration, and to the methods used for analysing, preserving, and transmitting musical heritage. Speakers will take participants on a journey through time and across [...]
Launched in 2024, the Wiener-Anspach Alumni Talks celebrate our former Fellows by creating opportunities to meet and exchange ideas on a variety of themes, while also involving academics from the ULB. For this second edition, Clémence Mathieu, Annabelle Oliva and Kim Oosterlinck will explore the relationship between cultural heritage [...]
Published by the éditions de l’Université libre de Bruxelles under the direction of Valérie André and Chanel de Halleux, the book Le Monde du roman français (1800-1830) / The World of the French Novel (1800-1830) does justice to the novelistic production of the turn of the Enlightenment and the Restoration, [...]
On Tuesday, May 6, our Fellow Davide Martino, a postdoctoral researcher in History at the sociAMM and MMC (Modern and Contemporary Worlds) research centers at the ULB, will give a seminar titled “Qui a vidé la terre d'eau ? Une histoire environnementale du Suriname colonial à l’époque moderne”. Davide [...]
On March 27, 2025 Meredith Crowley, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and holder of the 2024-2025 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, delivered a public lecture at the Université libre de Bruxelles titled “The uncertain future of economic integration for Europe and the world”. The video of [...]
We are very happy to present our Activity Report for 2024, the year that marked the renewal of the Memoranda of Understanding between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Two pages are dedicated to this renewal, which took place in London on October [...]
On Thursday 10 April, the CECID (Center for International Cooperation and Development Studies) hosted a seminar at the ULB by Prof. Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge), titled "Global Development in the 21st Century and Ultra-Processed Food: A Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities”. Prof. Mawdsley was welcomed by our Postdoctoral [...]
Meredith Crowley, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College and a Research Coordinator at the Janeway Institute at Cambridge, is the holder of the 2024-2025 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles. As part of this Chair, she will [...]
