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 [...]
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 [...]
