Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Nicolas Duriau, who recently completed a one-year postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, is the author of « Prostitués » avant la lettre ? (1783-1922). Écrire les prostitutions masculines au XIXe siècle (Classiques Garnier, Paris 2025), an essay analyzing how French-language writers referred to male prostitution [...]
The Fondation Wiener-Anspach is pleased to announce that the holder of the 2025-2026 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université libre de Buxelles is Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Oxford and Corpus Christi College. Grounded in national common law jurisdictions, her research explores the [...]
The Centre Altaïr is an association promoting the study of scientific activity within its historical context, with particular attention to mathematics and other related disciplines. Based at the Université libre de Bruxelles, each year Altaïr organises several public lectures. For the 2025–2026 academic year, three Wiener-Anspach Alumni will take [...]
How is style represented in musical scores? Could there be a more effective way to use notation? These questions lie at the heart of a collaborative research project between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Cambridge, which will include an experimental phase on 16 and 19 [...]
On October 4, during the opening session of the academic year, the Royal Academy of Belgium welcomed thirteen new full members, including two Wiener-Anspach Alumni: Nicolas Boulanger in the Class of Sciences, and Isabelle Rorive in the Class of Letters, Moral and Political Sciences. Nicolas Boulanger, who holds a [...]
On September 23, 2025, the Fondation Wiener-Anspach had the pleasure of celebrating its sixtieth anniversary in Brussels, together with more than a hundred friends, Alumni and Fellows, in the exceptional setting of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The evening began with a lecture by paleontologist Pascal Godefroit, [...]
Last year our Foundation launched the Phyllis Beddington Wiener Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles, a new teaching and research chair welcoming, for one or two months, academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford working in all fields. For the first edition of the chair (2025-2026), two [...]
Both recipients of a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral grant in 2022–2023, Edward Lee-Six and David Talukder have recently published articles stemming from their research stays at the ULB and the University of Cambridge, respectively. Edward Lee-Six (PhD in French and English Literature, University of Cambridge) devotes an article to the author [...]
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 [...]
