Past events
Distinguished Lecture - Ardem Patapoutian, 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Programme 10:30 Opening words - Thomas Ebbsen (ISIS), director of USIAS, and Bernard Poulain (INCI), representative of the CNRS Fellow-Ambassadors programme 10:35 Introduction - Thomas...[more]
International Colloquium - Women in/and invective in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The colloquium and a doctoral workshop are organised by Sandra Boehringer (Archaeology and Ancient History: Mediterranean-Europe - ArcHiMedE) and Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College, USA and 2020 USIAS...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Neural plasticity and the evolution of reproductive isolation in crickets
By Sylvain Hugel, 2021 Fellow Reproductive isolation defines species boundaries and drives evolutionary divergence. In many animals, including crickets, species recognition relies on acoustic...[more]
Public lecture - The trauma of conversion: A story of chieftains, bishops, and national identity in the North
The lecture is open to the public and will be given in English. Dr. Simon Halink, researcher at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) and guest at USIAS, is a cultural historian...[more]
International colloquium - Medievalisms of the Margins
Staging Medieval Memories in Outside Western Europe Since the 19th century, the Middle Ages have often been made up of mythemes such as castles, forests, princesses, knights and unicorns, which may...[more]
Symposium - The sense of self: One body, multiple mechanisms
The sense of bodily self is both obvious and mysterious. It is obvious that we have only one body, despite multiple sources of bodily information: touch, body position, cardiac and intestinal...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Two unifying principles in mathematics: duality and stability
What is the relationship between Plato’s perfect solids and the Fourier transform? Do oceanic vortices and magnetic nanowires have anything in common? USIAS Fellows Raphaël Côte and Alexandru...[more]
Inaugural Lecture - Pascal Mayer, honorary Chair at USIAS
Pluridisciplinarity at Work: From Next Generation DNA Sequencing to Next Generation Therapeutics By Pascal Mayer, associated professor at the University of Strasbourg & CEO & CSO of Alphanosos,...[more]
