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 [...]
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 [...]
Héritier Mesa, PhD student in Social and Labour Sciences, was granted a Wiener-Anspach Fellowship in 2021-2022 to carry out part of his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. David Pratten (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography). As part of his fellowship, he recently published [...]
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 [...]
