In 2020/2021 Ahmed Hamila, PhD in Political Science (ULB/Université de Montreal), was granted a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship to undertake a research project entitled “The construction of a New Space of Collective Action: Mobilisations in favour of LGBT Refugees in the UK”, under the supervision of Dr Véronique Mottier (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge).
Our Alumni Nicolas Duriau and Ahmed Hamila publish two books based on their doctoral research
Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Nicolas Duriau, who recently completed a one-year postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, is the author of « Prostitués » avant la lettre ? (1783-1922). Écrire les prostitutions masculines au XIXe siècle (Classiques Garnier, Paris 2025), an essay analyzing how French-language writers referred to male prostitution [...]
“Migration control in practice”, a book bringing together our Alumni Federica Infantino and Ahmed Hamila and our Fellow Anissa Maâ
“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 [...]
A month rich in academic appointments for the Wiener-Anspach Foundation’s Alumni
We were delighted to learn that in June several Wiener-Anspach Alumni were appointed to the following academic positions. Six of them have obtained a FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship: David Bauman (PhD in Biology and 2018-2020 Postodoctoral Fellow in Oxford) with a project entitled “Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate and neighbourhood [...]
Ahmed Hamila will speak at the international conference “A decade of changes in the Arab world”
On January 28-30 the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de La Manouba in Tunis are organising an online international conference to reflect on the past ten years of revolutions and changes in the Arab world (in French and Arabic). In the opening session, Wiener-Anspach Fellow Ahmed Hamila [...]
The University of Montreal awards Ahmed Hamila the Dissertation Prize in Social Sciences
In 2016/2017, Ahmed was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship in the framework of his doctoral research. Now his dissertation, entitled “Sortir du placard, entrer en Europe: la fabrique des ‘réfugié.es LGBTI’ en Belgique, en France et au Royaume-Uni“, has been awarded the Dissertation Prize in Social Sciences by the University of [...]