“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 [...]
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 [...]
