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 [...]
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 [...]
