On November 8 and 9, 2021 the Académie royale de Belgique hosted an international symposium that attempted to assess what is left of Voltairian irony in these times of extreme political correctness. This event was organised with the support of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation and under the academic supervision of Valérie [...]
David Bauman, PhD in Biology (ULB), was granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship at the University of Oxford from 2018 until 2020. In August 2021 he published with Roxane Beyns and Thomas Drouet an article in Journal of Vegetation Science entitled « Fine-scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation [...]
After last year's pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation was very happy to once again host its annual Fellows' meeting on Wednesday 8 September, thereby offering its new Fellows the opportunity to present their research projects at ULB, Cambridge and Oxford. We are delighted to share a few pictures of this [...]
October is shaping up to be a busy month for our Fellow Justine Feyereisen, who is finishing her two-year stay at the University of Oxford as part of her Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship. Justine had previously obtained a PhD in Languages, Literature and Translation Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles [...]
On Wednesday 22 September Paul Lane (Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor, Deep History & Archaeology of Africa, University of Cambridge) will open the 2021/2022 seminar of the CReA-Patrimoine with a lecture entitled "Archaeology, the forging of identity, and the birth of the post-colonial state in sub-Saharan Africa". The lecture, organised [...]
We would like to join Annemie Schaus, Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles, in congratulating “the amazing researchers who have recently been selected to join the ULB academic staff”. Three of them are former Fellows of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation: Corentin Caudron (PhD in Sciences, 2015/2016 Fellow in Cambridge), Martin [...]
Benefiting from the gradual return to normality, on June 23 the Wiener-Anspach Foundation organised an award ceremony in honour of Helena Placentino, 2019/2020 Fellow of Ganshof van der Meersch Prize. The prize was created in 1994 to honour the memory of Professor W. J. Ganshof van der Meersch and [...]
Back in 2016, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation was among the sponsors of the international symposium "L’Éristique : Définitions, caractérisations et historicité", convened by Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Sylvain Delcomminnette (Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles) and Dr Geneviève Lachance (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gent). The speakers [...]
The new issue of the European Journal of Social Sciences features an article by Neha Tayshete, Lecturer at the Centre for Political Theory of the Université libre de Buxelles. Entitled “Can Gandhi’s ethics remedy the self-interest maximisation of existing theories of justice?”, this paper is partly the result of [...]
Tuesday 15 June, 4 pm In the framework of the seminar “Dialogues autour d’Alexandre Kojève”, Dr Tristan Storme will give a presentation entitled “Kojève à Plettenberg. En dialogue avec Carl Schmitt, autour de la dialectique hégélienne et de l’ordre mondial après 1945”. In 2011/2012 Dr Storme was granted a postdoctoral [...]
