In 2024–2025, Adrita Mitra, then a DPhil candidate in History at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to undertake a research stay at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Under the supervision of Professor Amandine Lauro, a member of the research group Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s) of [...]
In 2019–2020, the Foundation awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to Laura Di Spurio (PhD in History, ULB) to conduct research at the University of Oxford on a project titled “‘Little Girls are killed’: Transnational moral panic and the making of at-risk girls in the European Belle Epoque”. It was the starting [...]
After launching the celebrations for its 60th anniversary in Brussels, in September 2025, the Fondation Wiener-Anspach had the privilege of being invited by its close UK partners to carry on the celebrations across the Channel. On Thursday 26 March, 2026, the General Representative of Wallonia-Brussels to the UK, Motonobu [...]
On 18 May 2026, at the awards ceremony of the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology, Emma Béat 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 [...]
Jason Lotay, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, is one of the two holders of the 2025-2026 Phyllis Beddington Wiener Chair at ULB, inaugurated this year by the Fondation Wiener-Anspach. He is welcomed at the ULB by Professor Joel Fine (Faculty of Sciences). As part of [...]
We are pleased to present our 2025 Activity Report, marking the 60th anniversary of our Foundation. The celebrations began in Brussels at the Institute of Natural Sciences, whose iguanodons rightly take pride of place on the cover. The report presents our tribute to Luc Lemaire, who stepped down from [...]
Harald Wydra, Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge, is one of the two holders of the 2025-2026 Phyllis Beddington Wiener Chair at the ULB, inaugurated this year by the Fondation Wiener-Anspach. Professor Wydra’s research interests include Eastern European and Russian politics, democracy (comparative and theory), political anthropology, [...]
Image : Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860) « Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs für Schule und Haus ». 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 [...]
(Photo : Wesley Tingey / Unsplash) Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Oxford, is the holder of the 2025-2026 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair. As part of this Chair, she will give a public lecture at the Université libre de Bruxelles titled "Environmental [...]
Three Wiener-Anspach Alumni have recently been appointed to permanent positions at the University of Oxford and the Université de Bruxelles, joining the many former fellows who have built their careers across the three universities covered by the mission of our Foundation. We congratulate them and wish them every success [...]
