Inaugural Lectures

USIAS has created three two-year research chairs for Strasbourg researchers, named after eminent scholars in Strasbourg's history and representing the three main academic domains: the Marc Bloch Chair in social sciences and humanities, the Paul Ehrlich Chair in life sciences and the Marguerite Perey Chair in the natural sciences. Each new chairholder is invited to give an ‘inaugural lecture’, in which they present the latest knowledge in their field of research to a wider audience.

Lectures of the Marc Bloch chairs

• From sandy Bahariya to the gilded court of Thebes: an interdisciplinary pathway in Egyptology (Frédéric Colin)
• "The precision of poetry and the imagination of science”: Explorations in American studies (Monica Manolescu)

Lectures of the Marguerite Perey chairs

• Nucleosynthesis of chemical elements in the Universe: a plunge into the burning heart of massive stars (Sandrine Courtin)

Lectures of the Paul Ehrlich chairs

• Rare genetic diseases: a unique window into biology (Hélène Dollfus)
• The brain on opiates: for better and for worse (Brigitte Kieffer)