From June 28 to 30, the University of Cambridge hosted the international workshop "Respecting Seeds: An Exploration into Saving Ethics and the Politics of Care in Gardens, Farms and Banks". Co-convened by Olivia Angé, Professor of Economic Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a Wiener-Anspach Alumna, this [...]
From 2018 to 2020, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation supported the research project "Conflicts of Sovereignty in a European Union in Crisis (SovEU)", aimed at testing the hypothesis that " the existential crisis faced by the EU over the last decade is not the product of a conflict between national sovereignty [...]
Aurelia Sauerbrei, DPhil student in Population Health at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a one-year Wiener-Anspach fellowship at ULB, where she is pursuing her research on "Artificial intelligence and healthcare: the ethics of using clinical artificial intelligence tools" under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Noël Missa (Faculty of [...]
From left : the Executive Director of the Foundation, Kristin Bartik, 2021-2022 recipient Zoé Lejeune and Julie Allard, Dean of the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology (picture by Benjamin Lachterman). Established in 1994, the Ganshof van der Meersch Prize rewards a student from the Faculty of [...]
On April 21, before the reception at the Residence of His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm, Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, the Foundation's Alumni Network organised a visit to the Egyptian galleries of the British Museum. We had the pleasure to be guided by Amélie Deblauwe, a Wiener-Anspach [...]
On 21 April 2023 we had the pleasure to gather in London several of our UK-based alumni and friends as well as many Fellows currently in Oxbridge. The reception took place in the beautiful setting of the residence of the Belgian Ambassador, His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm. We [...]
Arild Stenberg, PhD in Music Psychology (University of Cambridge), was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 2020 to 2022. He has now returned to the University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Music and is currently working on the [...]
On March 30, 2023 Chris Bickerton, Professor in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and holder of the 2022-2023 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, gave a public lecture entitled "The long 1989" at the Université libre de Bruxelles. The video of the lecture is now available on [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is pleased to present its Activity Report for 2022, a year that marked the long-awaited return of in-person activities: the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, held by Professor Paul Betts (University of Oxford), as well as the visit to the International Carnival and Mask Museum, organised by [...]
We are delighted to share a few pictures of the Philippe Wiener Lecture on "Prismatic translation" delivered by Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford) at the Université libre de Bruxelles on March 7. We warmly thank the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication for their welcome, the students who [...]
