“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 [...]
Poster by Gisbert Gombaz, 1895. Led by Professor Clément Dessy at ULB and Professors Stefano Maria Evangelista and Patrick McGuinness at Oxford University, the research project “Symbolism and Decadence as World Literature” is one of the nine collaborations supported by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation for the 2022-2024 period. [...]
Tzveta Manolova, DPhil in Archaeology (University of Oxford), has just completed a two-year Wiener-Anspach fellowship at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where she worked with Prof. Athena Tsingarida (CreA-Patrimoine). Her project – "Protohistoric Eastern Mediterranean Ships Digital Project (1500-600 B.C.)" – led to the creation of an open access [...]
On September 29 and 30, the Université libre de Bruxelles hosted the workshop “When Rural Meets Urban : Networks of 'Regional' Modernisms”, organised in the framework of the ULB-Oxford research project “When Rural Meets Urban: Towards A Cultural History of Modernisms in Bohemia 1895-1925”. Led by Professors Petra James (Département [...]
Photo: Frédéric Raevens On Saturday 8 October 2022, the Wiener-Anspach Alumni Network organised a visit to the International Carnival and Mask Museum in Binche, directed by our Alumna Clémence Mathieu. A Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow in Cambridge in 2012-2013, Clémence granted us this interview, published in our 2022 Activity [...]
Julie Dainville, PhD in Languages, Literature and Translation Studies (ULB), is currently a Wiener-Anspach Fellow in Oxford, where she is carrying out a research project entitled “Ancient rhetorical theory in papyrological sources” under the supervision of Dr Daniela Colomo (Faculty of Classics). During her research stay, she has co-authored with [...]
Kazimir Malevich, Supremus #58: Yellow and Black, 1916 (Russian State Museum, St Petersburg). On Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September, on the occasion of the inauguration of the interdisciplinary research centre MODERNITAS, the Université libre de Bruxelles hosted the conference “Cracks in the Canon: Modernism and Censorship [...]
It is a happy coincidence that two former Wiener-Anspach Fellows – who left Brussels to study in Cambridge in the same year and ended up working there – are featured in two recently published articles. In 2009-2010 Camille Terfve was granted a Wiener-Anspach postgraduate fellowship to complete an MPhil [...]
In the framework of the 41st Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control (5-7 July, Brussels), Professor David Howey (University of Oxford) delivered a lecture enitled “Data-driven battery health diagnosis in real-world applications”. David Howey is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda’s [...]
