Past events
Lecture - The evolutionary perspective on leadership and followership in humans
By Mark van Vugt, Professor of Evolutionary, Work and Organizational Psychology, VU University Amsterdam and research associate at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology,...[more]
Colloquium Collège de France: Genes and disease
Genes and diseases: some current issues and perspectives In the 21st century, the role our genes play in health and disease increasingly impacts on disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. In the...[more]
Workshop - Defeat and the West: Interpretations of the Defeat of Athens in 404 BCE
This unique tri-lingual workshop brings together experts from France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, the UK and the US to explore the interpretations of the defeat of Athens in 404...[more]
22nd USIAS Fellows Seminar - Public Spending in classical democratic Athens
David Pritchard, USIAS Fellow 2015, University of Queensland, Australia The major public activities of this ancient direct democracy were festivals, politics and wars. There is hot debate about what...[more]
Distinguished Lecture - DNA Nanotechnology
Itamar Willner Prof. Itamar Willner was born in Romania in 1947, and immigrated to Israel in 1950. He completed his studies in chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his...[more]
Distinguished Lecture - The Discovery of CRISPR-Cas
Philippe Horvath Dr. Horvath is Senior Scientis at DuPont Nutrition and Health Technology, Dangé-Saint-Romain, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2000 from Université...[more]
Distinguished Lecture - Bio-mimétisme et Bio-inspiration
Le professeur Clément Sanchez, titulaire de la Chaire de chimie des matériaux hybrides au Collège de France, est l’un des chimistes des matériaux les plus renommés. Spécialiste dans les domaines de...[more]
21st USIAS Fellows Seminar - Antiviral innate immunity
Jean-Luc Imler, Fellow 2014, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Strasbourg Dengue virus and other arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) have a major impact on human public...[more]



