Past events
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]
Distinguished Lecture - Attosecond physics - Anne L'Huillier, 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
Attosecond pulses of light for studying electron dynamics When an intense laser interacts with a gas of atoms, high-order harmonics are generated. In the time domain, this radiation forms a train of...[more]
Fellows Seminar - How to observe the invisible: the quest for dark matter around galaxies
By Florent Renaud, 2023 Fellow For several decades now, independent observations of the nearby Universe seem contradictory: galaxies are spinning too fast. At the measured rotation speeds, the...[more]
Fellows Seminar- What can we possibly see from the shoulders of a giant?
By Édouard Mehl, 2022 Fellow Writing the history of philosophy in the 21st century Before presenting an overview of the recent results of research carried out during this USIAS Fellowship...[more]
