On 13 and 14 November, the Maison française d'Oxford hosted the workshop “Comparative and World literature through the Lens of Modernist and Translation Studies”, organised as part of the ULB-Oxford collaborative project "When the rural meets the urban: towards a cultural history of modernism in Bohemia, 1898-1925". This project, [...]
On November 6, three ULB research centers – Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s), Mondes Modernes et Contemporains and the Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude des religions et de la laïcité – welcomed Martin Conway, Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford. Invited with the support of the Fondation Wiener-Anspach, Professor [...]
On Monday, September 18, 2023, the annual reception for our new Fellows was held in Brussels. We had the pleasure of returning to the Institute for European Studies, a venue closely linked to the history of the Foundation and which has often hosted our events in the past. Most [...]
On September 30, at a ceremony for the opening of the academic year, the Académie royale de Belgique welcomed fourteen new full members, including Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Professor of Mathematics at the Université catholique de Louvain and member of the Classe des Sciences. In 2006-2007, after completing his [...]
Three of our 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellows – David Talukder, Edward Lee-Six and Thomas Legein – recently addressed the subject of their research in the journals European Conference on Politics and Gender and Politique. David Talukder (PhD in Political and Social Sciences, ULB) published an article titled "Challenging assumptions: Investigating [...]
On 25 and 26 September, the Université libre de Bruxelles hosted the workshop “Legacies of Anarchism. Interdisciplinary Visions”, organised by Petra James, Denis Ioffe and Sybil Raisz (Modernitas, ULB). The event brought together many specialists, several of whom have links with the Fondation Wiener-Anspach: our Fellow Edward Lee-Six, PhD [...]
The Foundation extends its warmest congratulations to Arthur Péquin and Joseph Salinas, both recipients of a Wiener-Anspach doctoral fellowship in 2021-2022, who recently defended their PhD thesis. Arthur Péquin and Alessandro Parente (Universitè libre de Bruxelles, 6 July 2023). Arthur Péquin, PhD in Aero-Thermo-Mechanics (ULB), worked under [...]
We are delighted to announce that Wiener-Anspach Alumna Nibedita Mukherjee (Lecturer in Global Development at Brunel University London) is among the winners of the British Ecological Society (BES) Annual Awards, “recognising eleven distinguished ecologists whose work has benefited the scientific community and society in general”. Dr Mukherjee received the [...]
A Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 2014 to 2016, Paul Earlie had the invaluable opportunity to work with late Belgian philosopher Michel Meyer (1950-2022), to whom he pays a vibrant homage. What sparked your interest in French thought, your main area of research? Were you [...]
The Foundation would like to congratulate Dr Katie Johnston, 2018-2019 Wiener-Anspach Alumna, and Dr Julien Decharneux, currently a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, on the prizes they were recently awarded for their doctoral dissertation. Katie Johnston received the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation [...]
