Past events
Fellows seminar - From Cretan cults to the pagan critique of Christian empresses
In this joint social sciences and humanities seminar, two USIAS projects will be presented. Phaistos and the archaeology of cult in the Late Bronze Age Crete By Nicola Cucuzza, University of Genoa,...[more]
Study Day - The exploitation of digital editions for literary studies
Publishing - and then what? From digital publishing to computational literary studies The aim of this day is to develop, through exchanges, a reflection on the exploitation of digital editions with...[more]
Public lecture - Variants in medieval literature
Victor Millet is Professor of German Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and has been invited for a USIAS research stay. His work spans the major genres of medieval German...[more]
Fellows Seminar - From social bacteria to social policy
This joint seminar will bring together two different disciplines to showcase two research projects, from the traditional laboratory to the social laboratory. Structural insights from staphylococcal...[more]
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]
