On Thursday, March 10 Paul Betts, Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College (University of Oxford) and holder of the 2021-2022 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, gave a public lecture entitled "A Re-Civilising Mission: The Cultural Reconstruction of Europe after 1945". Abstract In this lecture, Paul Betts [...]
We are delighted to accompany our best wishes for 2022 with the image of a work by artist-researcher and Wiener-Anspach Fellow Hannah De Corte. Scribbles I, ballpoint pen on found fabric, 2011, detail Hannah (PhD in Art and Arts Sciences, ULB) will undertake a project entitled “Emergent [...]
Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant (PhD in Art History and Archaeology, ULB) was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2017 to 2019. During his research stay, he organised a workshop entitled 'Ancient Architectural Repairs in the Greek World' (28 February-1 March 2019, Wolfson College), an event supported by [...]
After a one-year pause caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce the resumption of the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, which in 2021/2022 will be held by Paul Betts, Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College (University of Oxford). Paul Bett’s research [...]
On Saturday 4 December, after a long break due to the Covid-19 crisis, the Wiener-Anspach Alumni Network was finally able to restart its activities by organising a very successful visit to the Royal Museum for Central Africa. We were welcomed by Alexandre Livingstone Smith (1991/1992 Fellow) and Nicolas Nikis [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation warmly congratulates its Alumnus Petar Markovic on his appointment as Head of the Mission of Montenegro to the European Union. Announced in July 2021, when he was Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, his appointment was formalised at the end of September. “At [...]
In 2020/2021 Coraline Jortay (PhD in Languages, Literature and Translation Studies, ULB), was granted a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she undertook a research project entitled “You, (Un)gendered: Literary Fates of China’s Most Popular ‘Useless’ Pronoun (1927-1956)”, under the supervision of Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Faculty [...]
On November 8 and 9, 2021 the Académie royale de Belgique hosted an international symposium that attempted to assess what is left of Voltairian irony in these times of extreme political correctness. This event was organised with the support of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation and under the academic supervision of Valérie [...]
David Bauman, PhD in Biology (ULB), was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship at the University of Oxford from 2018 until 2020. In August 2021 he published with Roxane Beyns and Thomas Drouet an article in Journal of Vegetation Science entitled « Fine-scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation [...]
After last year's pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation was very happy to once again host its annual Fellows' meeting on Wednesday 8 September, thereby offering its new Fellows the opportunity to present their research projects at ULB, Cambridge and Oxford. We are delighted to share a few pictures of this [...]
