Edward Lee-Six, PhD in French and English Literature (University of Cambridge), is currently a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at ULB, where he is conducting research on “Emile Verhaeren at the cross-roads of Belgian symbolism and English romanticism". This week, he is co-organising two book launches with the French publisher Les [...]
After a long pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that its Philippe Wiener Lectures will resume on Tuesday 7 March at the Université libre de Bruxelles, with a conference by Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at the University of Oxford). Professor Reynolds, who will [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that the holder of the 2022-2023 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Chris Bickerton (Professor in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and Official Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge). Initially scheduled for 2020/2021, this chair had to be postponed due [...]
This week marks the start of a seminar series organised by Professors Athena Tsingarida (CreA-Patrimoine, ULB) and Irene Lemos (Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), in the framework of their collaborative research project “Crete and Euboea in an interconnecting world (from the 12th to 6th century BC): The role [...]
On 24 and 25 January, with the support of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation, Hélène Sechehaye (Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and member of the Laboratoire de Musicologie at ULB) will be in Cambridge to give a lecture and a workshop. She will be welcomed by our [...]
Conducted by Alessandro Parente (École polytechnique de Bruxelles) and Nedunchezhian Swaminathan (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge), the project "Alchemy - Machine Learning for Complex Multiphysics Problems" was one of the nine collaborative research projects funded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation from 2018 to 2020. This collaboration has now resulted [...]
On December 13, the FNRS awarded its Incentive grants for scientific research to thirteen researchers, including six from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Among the latter are Wiener-Anspach Alumni Nathalie Brack, Corentin Caudron and Guillaume Schweicher. Nathalie Brack, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, was selected for [...]
Roy Lavendomme (right) at the Incentive Awards ceremony (Blankenberge, October 2022). Our Alumnus Roy Lavendomme is one of the two young researchers in chemistry who received the 2022 Incentive Award from the C.G.B.-C.B.B. (Management Committee of the Bulletin of the Belgian Chemical Societies). The award ceremony took [...]
“Most debate on migration policies in Europe pay little attention to the ways that day-to-day practices shape the reality of migration control. The notion of ‘a gap’ typically describes the relationship between migration policies on paper and in practice, implying that something simply goes wrong when policies are put [...]
On Thursday 22 September 2022, the annual Wiener-Anspach Fellows' Meeting was held in Brussels. We were welcomed by His Excellency Martin Shearman, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Belgium, in his residence near the Royal Park. The Foundation would like to warmly thank him and his team for giving [...]
