On Tuesday 1 October, 2024 we had the pleasure of celebrating in London the renewal of the Memoranda of Understanding between the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, i.e. the official framework of the collaborations at the heart of our Foundation's mission. Our [...]
Annabelle Oliva (à droite) et Julie Waseige In 2021, our Alumna Annabelle Oliva and her friend Julie Waseige, both graduates in Art History and Archaeology from ULB, launched a company unique of its kind in Belgium: Retrace, an agency for the enhancement of historical, archaeological and artistic [...]
Marie Linos, PhD in History, Art History, and Archaeology (ULB), is currently in her second year of research at the University of Oxford, working with Prof. Siân Pooley (Faculty of History) on a project titled "How significant is the Other: British couples of scholars and the making of a [...]
As part of the ULB-Oxford research project "Symbolism and decadence as world literature", the Université libre de Bruxelles will host the conference “Worlding symbolism/Les mondes du symbolisme. Textes, images, objects" from Thursday 17 to Saturday 18 May (see programme). Led by Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Clément Dessy (ULB), Stefano Maria Evangelista [...]
We are delighted to present our 2023 Activity Report, the cover of which takes us far from our usual Belgo-British reference points, to the plains of Zambia. For this edition, we interviewed our Alumna Terry Brncic, Deputy Director of the Zambian Carnivore Programme, who generously shared with us some [...]
From left : Julie Allard, Dean of the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology, the Executive Director of the Foundation, Kristin Bartik, and 2022-2023 recipient Fiona Argenta (picture by Benjamin Lachterman). Established in 1994, the Ganshof van der Meersch Prize rewards a student from the Faculty of Law and Criminology of [...]
Anissa Maâ, PhD in Political and Social Sciences (ULB) and F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, has published Signer la déportation. Migrations africaines et retours volontaires depuis le Maroc (Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2024). Based on her doctoral dissertation, this book analyzes voluntary return programmes [...]
On 27 February 2024, the Fondation Wiener-Anspach launched a new initiative – the Wiener-Anspach Alumni Talks – to honour its former fellows. For this first edition, Anne Teller (Directorate General for the Environment, European Commission and 1984-1985 FWA Alumna) and Marius Gilbert (Spatial Epidemiology Lab, ULB and 1995-1997 FWA Alumnus) [...]
On Thursday 18 April the Académie royale de Belgique will host the workshop "Sailors, Traders, Settlers and Potters: Interactions and Exchanges in the Ancient Mediterranean", organised in the framework of the ULB-Oxford research project "Crete and Euboea in an interconnecting world (from the 12th to 6th century BC): The [...]
The Fondation Wiener-Anspach is particularly pleased to launch a new initiative whose name pays tribute to its founder, Phyllis Beddington Wiener, and to her desire to foster exchanges and collaboration between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. In addition to our many funding [...]
