The new issue of the European Journal of Social Sciences features an article by Neha Tayshete, Lecturer at the Centre for Political Theory of the Université libre de Buxelles. Entitled “Can Gandhi’s ethics remedy the self-interest maximisation of existing theories of justice?”, this paper is partly the result of [...]
Tuesday 15 June, 4 pm In the framework of the seminar “Dialogues autour d’Alexandre Kojève”, Dr Tristan Storme will give a presentation entitled “Kojève à Plettenberg. En dialogue avec Carl Schmitt, autour de la dialectique hégélienne et de l’ordre mondial après 1945”. In 2011/2012 Dr Storme was granted a postdoctoral [...]
On June 14, 2021 the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne will host the second part of the online international symposium “Why private property?”, convened by Prof. Pierre Crétois (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Eric Fabri (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Prof. Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford). This event, which addresses the question of how [...]
In February the ULB Laboratory of Musicology finally welcomed Dr Peter Asimov, who like other Wiener-Anspach fellows this year had to struggle with the many challenges posed by Brexit and the pandemic. We are delighted that Peter has finally been able to move from Cambridge to Brussels and start [...]
In 1985 Peter Coveney came to the ULB to work with Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine, from whom he acquired an interdisciplinary approach to scientific research. He now leads several projects in the field of supercomputing and has developed what he calls a “Brexit mitigation strategy“. This interview, granted in [...]
How does contemporary literature deal with the current issues related to borders from the perspective of utopia? A rich panel of speakers will address this question from April 19 to 23 at the international conference "Utopia and Migration: Renewing the Imagination of Borders in the 21st c." Co-organised by [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is very happy to present its 2020 Activity Report. It offers an opportunity to retrace a highly unusual year which inevitably affected the activities of the Foundation and of its beneficiaries. However, as the report shows, the sanitary crisis didn't stop the academic exchanges and international [...]
On December 8, 2020 Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellows Justine Feyereisen and Coraline Jortay participated in the launch of the Southern Lives Network convened by Professor Elleke Boehmer at the Oxford Center for Life Writing. With more than forty members, the network seeks to explore questions such as: what does it [...]
After a two-year pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is resuming its funding programme for collaborative research projects between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Since the programme's launch in 2010, thirty projects have been financed in all fields of research. For the 2022-2024 funding [...]
Marius Gilbert, Head of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL) at the ULB, was a Wiener-Anspach fellow from 1995 to 1997, when he carried out part of his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Martin Speight (Department of Zoology). A sought-after expert since the [...]
