Past events

All events have been cancelled until further notice during the coronavirus epidemic. For more information, please check the coronavirus situation report published by the University of...[more]

By Stephen Dobson (2018 Fellow) and Vincent Viblanc (host, IPHC) See a short video about this research (Le Monde, 31 January 2020) Socially stressed? Effects of the social environment on the...[more]

Modernism's Visible Hand: How architecture shaped the modern way of life By Michael OsmanProfessor of Architectural HistoryUniversity of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)  Register here Modernist...[more]

By Françoise Dantzer (Fellow 2017) An emerging actor in neurogenesis: PARP3 and astrocytic differentiation Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP, 17 members) is a family of proteins involved in a...[more]

USIAS Fellow Tijana Vujosevic (University of Western Australia) will present her recent book Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man (Manchester University Press, 2017). The creation of...[more]

By Anthony Mangeon (2017 Fellow) The question of Africa’s future has, for a long time, been an essential geopolitical and economic issue, and treated as such in a wide variety of speeches and visual...[more]

Nicolas Giuseppone & Andreas Walther (2017 Fellows) Molecular machines can generate mechanical work from chemical fuels or light at the nanoscale, and are able to produce new functions by energy...[more]

This year's Symposium will feature two distinguished speakers, Alison Wolf Baroness of Dulwich, of King's College London, who will address the issue of the future of universities, and Martin Wolf of...[more]