Wiener-Anspach Fellow Laura Di Spurio recently published a book, Du côté des jeunes filles. Discours, (contre-)modèles et histoires de l’adolescence féminine, analysing the evolution of female adolescence in Belgium in the 20th century. First framed as a separate age group, adolescence later became a "cultural, social and biopsychological space", "an explanatory [...]
In this essay, Wiener-Anspach Alumna Violette Pouillard traces the history of zoological gardens from the perspective of animals, focusing on Paris' Jardin des Plantes and on the zoos of London and Antwerpen, from their opening at the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Dr Pouillard was granted [...]
The Foundation was greatly saddened to learn of the passing away of Sir Christopher M. Dobson. Chris was a close friend of the Foundation and as Master of St John’s College was an invaluable partner in helping the Foundation organize activities in Cambridge. Our thoughts go out to his [...]
Jonathan Mboyo Esole was born in the Congo and he studied at the ULB and Cambridge. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University. In March 2018 he received the Next Einstein Award, recognising Africa’s best young scientists and technologists. Alongside his academic activity, he [...]
On April 4, 2019 the Université libre de Bruxelles renewed its privileged partnership with the two British universities, launched a decade ago. Since the first Memoranda of Understanding were signed, dozens of collaborative research projects have brought together teams from these three universities. Students, researchers and academics have travelled [...]
By a happy chance, we have reconnected with one of our Alumni, Marc Sanda Kimbimbi, who was a postgraduate fellow at the University of Cambridge in 1978-1979. In December Mr Kimbimbi came to Brussels to receive the first prize of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université libre [...]
Wiener-Anspach Alumna Amélie Deblauwe, Senior Digitisation Technician at the University of Cambridge, is among the experts photographed in the December issue of National Geographic, featuring an article entitled "Inside the cloak-and-dagger search for sacred texts". Amélie was photographed with her colleague Błażej Mikuła from the Cambridge University Library’s Digital [...]
It is not often that two of our Alumni are featured in a single issue of a magazine: it happened last week in Le Vif. The Belgian magazine published a portrait of Clémence Mathieu, Director of the International Carnival and Mask Museum in Binche, who was granted a Wiener-Anspach [...]
Recently, there has been a lot of news in the press, online and on the radio about FWA Alumnus Jonathan Mboyo Esole (2001/2002, Mathematics at Cambridge). Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University, Jonathan is the recipient of a Next Einstein Award, recognising Africa’s best young [...]
Ayesha Vardag is the President and founder of top family law firm Vardags. In 1990/1991 she was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to study at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In this interview, published in our 2016 Activity Report, she recalls the racy year she spent in Brussels and explains how [...]
