On Saturday 16 December, the Académie royale de Belgique hosted the reception ceremony for its new Associate Members and the new Members of its Collegium, including Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Romain Weikmans. Dr Weikmans was recently appointed Associate Professor in Global Environmental Governance at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he [...]
The Fondation Wiener-Anspach is delighted to announce that the holder of the 2023-2024 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College. Catherine Barnard, FBA, FLSW, FRSA, is the author of EU Employment [...]
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 [...]
