Ayesha Vardag is the President and founder of top family law firm Vardags. In 1990/1991 she was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to study at the Université libre de Bruxelles. In this interview, published in our 2016 Activity Report, she recalls the racy year she spent in Brussels and explains how [...]
Wiener-Anspach Alumna Victoria Van Lennep is the co-founder with Martin Kissinger of Lendable, an online lending platform that "aims to undercut banks on speed, red tape and price", as The Independent recently wrote. Victoria was granted a postgraduate fellowship in 2012/2013 to undertake an MSc in Nature, Society and [...]
Pierre Vaesen, Honorary Ambassador of Belgium, recalls his experience in the Seventies at the University of Cambridge and coments on his long diplomatic career. You left with a scholarship from the Foundation for the 1973/74 academic year. How, at that time, did you find this opportunity? Was it a [...]
Holder of the 2014/2015 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, Professor John Spencer recently granted us an interview on the UK’s next general election. Polls show the Tories and Labour are neck to neck and there is much speculation about the coalitions that could result from these elections. What are your impressions [...]
In 2014/2015 Victor Ferry, PhD in Arts, was granted a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a research entitled "Exercising empathy: Rhetorics of others' points of view", under the supervision of Dr Fiona Macintosh at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. In this interview he presents the topic challenges [...]
On November 24th, on the occasion of the Philippe Wiener Lecture delivered by Professor Pierre Vanderhaeghen, the University of Cambridge and the Université libre de Bruxelles renewed the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2009. Professor Serge Schiffmann, Vice-Rector Research at the ULB, and Dr Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International [...]
In 2012, Marco Di Nunzio, DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology, was granted a two-year fellowship to pursue his research on the topic “Tales of the Unequal City. Political Control and Social Inequality in Addis Ababa” under the supervision of Prof. Mathieu Hilgers at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes [...]
Lucy Wadeson is a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at the ULB. She recently came back from Petra, where she excavated with Prof. Laurent Tholbecq (CReA-Patrimoine). In this interview she outlines the subject of her research: the Nabatean funerary culture and its many mysteries. You are specialized in the archaeology of [...]
Wiener-Anspach fellow Nathalie Brack, an expert in EU institutions currently based in Oxford, recently published an article on euroscepticism in the European Parliament. She is also the author, with Olivier Costa, of the volume How the EU really works (Ashgate 2014). On the eve of the 2014 European elections, [...]
In March Sir Michael Wood, Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge), came to Brussels to give a lecture on international customary law. On that occasion he granted us an interview touching on his experience as a Wiener-Anspach fellow (one of the very first!), [...]
