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 [...]
Wiener-Anspach Alumna Victoria Van Lennep is the co-founder with Martin Kissinger of Lendable, an online lending platform that "aims to undercut banks on speed, red tape and price", as The Independent recently wrote. Victoria was granted a postgraduate fellowship in 2012/2013 to undertake an MSc in Nature, Society and [...]
Pierre Vaesen, Honorary Ambassador of Belgium, recalls his experience in the Seventies at the University of Cambridge and coments on his long diplomatic career. You left with a scholarship from the Foundation for the 1973/74 academic year. How, at that time, did you find this opportunity? Was it a [...]
Holder of the 2014/2015 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, Professor John Spencer recently granted us an interview on the UK’s next general election. Polls show the Tories and Labour are neck to neck and there is much speculation about the coalitions that could result from these elections. What are your impressions [...]
In 2014/2015 Victor Ferry, PhD in Arts, was granted a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a research entitled "Exercising empathy: Rhetorics of others' points of view", under the supervision of Dr Fiona Macintosh at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. In this interview he presents the topic challenges [...]
On November 24th, on the occasion of the Philippe Wiener Lecture delivered by Professor Pierre Vanderhaeghen, the University of Cambridge and the Université libre de Bruxelles renewed the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2009. Professor Serge Schiffmann, Vice-Rector Research at the ULB, and Dr Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International [...]
In 2012, Marco Di Nunzio, DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology, was granted a two-year fellowship to pursue his research on the topic “Tales of the Unequal City. Political Control and Social Inequality in Addis Ababa” under the supervision of Prof. Mathieu Hilgers at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes [...]
Lucy Wadeson is a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at the ULB. She recently came back from Petra, where she excavated with Prof. Laurent Tholbecq (CReA-Patrimoine). In this interview she outlines the subject of her research: the Nabatean funerary culture and its many mysteries. You are specialized in the archaeology of [...]
