Due to Covid-related restrictions, the 2020/2021 Ganshof van der Meersch chair awarded to Prof. Chris Bickerton (Reader in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge) has been postponed to 2022/2023. We are however delighted to announce that, in the framework of the [...]
On January 28-30 the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de La Manouba in Tunis are organising an online international conference to reflect on the past ten years of revolutions and changes in the Arab world (in French and Arabic). In the opening session, Wiener-Anspach Fellow Ahmed Hamila [...]
Published in December 2020 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article is entitled “Two-boson quantum interference in time”. The authors, Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Michael Jabbour and his thesis supervisor Nicolas Cerf (Centre for Quantum Information and Communication, Brussels School of Engineering), present “an unsuspected quantum interference [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is happy to announce that the 2019/2020 Ganshof van der Meersch Prize has been awarded to Helena Placentino. The prize was created in 1994 to honour the memory of Professor W. J. Ganshof van der Meersch and celebrate his contribution to Belgian and European Constitutional Law as [...]
In 2016/2017, Ahmed was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship in the framework of his doctoral research. Now his dissertation, entitled “Sortir du placard, entrer en Europe: la fabrique des ‘réfugié.es LGBTI’ en Belgique, en France et au Royaume-Uni“, has been awarded the Dissertation Prize in Social Sciences by the University of [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation awards postdoctoral fellowships to researchers who have obtained their PhD from the University of Cambridge or their DPhil from the University of Oxford and who wish to pursue their research at the ULB The fellowships are also open to researchers who have obtained their Doctorate from [...]
On November 18 and 19 the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Cevipol, the Institute for European Studies and the University of Cambridge are organising an international conference in the framework of the research project "Conflicts of sovereignty in a European Union in crisis (SovEU)". The project, which received a [...]
Brexit will close many chapters. One of these, as noted by Prof. Kees Groenendijk (Radboud Universiteit) in a recent post, is the contribution by British judges and advocates general of the Court of Justice of the European Union to EU law, especially EU migration law. The last British judge was [...]
Syrian refugees crossing the border of Hungary and Austria on their way to Germany (Hungary, 6 September 2015). Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Maria Chiara Vinciguerra, PhD student in Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, was a 2019/2020 Wiener-Anspach Fellow at the Universitè [...]
On October 3, 2020 the Académie royale de Belgique welcomed sept new members, including Professor Estelle Cantillon, a former Felloz of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation. Elected in the Technology and Society Class, Estelle Cantillon is F.R.S.-FNRS. Research Director, Professor at the Solvay Brussels School Economics & Management and Affiliated Researcher [...]
