Wiener-Anspach Fellow Maria Chiara Vinciguerra, PhD student in Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, is among the contributors of the book A research agenda for studies of corruption, edited by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Paul M. Heywood (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). She is the author, with Michele Bocchiola [...]
Wiener-Anspach Fellow Christophe Delaere, PhD in History of art and Archaeology (ULB), recently published a book entitled Le patrimoine subaquatique du lac Titicaca, Bolivie. Utilisation et perception de l’espace lacustre durant la période Tiwanaku (500-1150 PCN) (Bar Publishing, Oxford, 2020). This volume inaugurates a new series in Bar Publishing’s catalogue, "Cultural [...]
Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Jan Stöckmann (DPhil in History) has recently published an article presenting the results of his research stay at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2018/2019, under the supervision of Prof. Véronique Dimier (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences).. The paper, entitled “The First World War and the Democratic [...]
Danièle Reiber is the founder and director of Reiber PR, a public relations company operating in the arts world. She graduated from the ULB, but her passion for musicology – together with a Wiener-Anspach fellowship in 1994/1995 – made her cross the Channel over twenty years ago. Danièle, who [...]
Following a special call for research projects on Covid-19, the ULB has launched 18 new research projects, listed on the website of the University. Wiener-Anspach Alumni Emmanuel Slautsky and Gilles Bruylants are involved in two of these projects: “Belgian public and social law and the Covid-19 health crisis: facing the [...]
Two Wiener-Anspach Fellows, researchers David Bauman and Guillaume Delhaye, are currently working together in Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Yadvinder Malhi (School of Geography and the Environment). In the framework of their postdoctoral fellowship, they have authored, with other colleagues, a paper entitled “Interspecific trait integration increases with environmental [...]
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Begium, many researchers are playing an important role in explaining the nature and development of the epidemic. Among them are Wiener-Anspach Alumni Marius Gilbert and Simon Dellicour, both members of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Marius and Simon [...]
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 [...]
