He loved climbing trees when he was a child, but he only discovered much later that he also loved studying them. He recently co-authored a paper – “Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress “ – which was published by Nature and widely covered in the [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation was delighted to attend the award ceremony organised by the ULB Faculty of Law and Criminology on April 28, 2022. On this occasion, the Foundations’s Executive Director, Kristin Bartik, presented Leana Derard with the 2020-2021 Ganshof van der Meersch Prize. Created in 1994 to honour the [...]
With the support of the Foundation, Olivia Angé (Professor of Economic Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Wiener-Anspach Alumna) traveled to Cambridge on the occasion of the workshop “Tuberous Collectivities” (Jesus College, 14 and 15 March 2022), which she convened with David Nally (Senior Lecturer and Historical Geographer [...]
From April 19 to April 22 the European Consortium for Political research is welcoming – at the University of Edinburgh and online – over 400 scholars to its annual Joint sessions of workshops. Our Fellow Virginie Arantes is taking part in the workshop “Marketing Authoritarian Practices at Home and [...]
“How civilisation will be drafted to narrate politic fear and majoritarian identity in Europe remains an open question, but it continues to animate and define a continent that feels under threat.” Paul Betts, Professor of Modern European Histoy at St Antony’s College (University of Oxford), is the holder of [...]
“Crossing Borders, Defining States: Confession, Music and Territoriality in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (c. 1500-1650)” was the first collaborative research project supported by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation in the field of musicology, from 2014 to 2017. Led by Professors Marie-Alexis Colin (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Iain [...]
Like every year, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to present its Activity Report. While health measures prevented us from organising public events during 2021, we were very happy to be able to resume our funding programme for collaborative research projects between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of [...]
Among the research projects supported by the Foundation for the 2018-2020 period, “Cat19 - Panorama of the French novel, 1801-1830” seeked to build up a full picture of all aspects of the French-language novel in the early 19th century. Led by Professors Valérie André at the Université libre de [...]
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 [...]
