Past events

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]

By Wolfgang R. Hess and Pascale Romby (2017 FRIAS-USIAS Fellows) Bacteria have to constantly adapt their metabolism and growth to ever-changing environmental conditions. These fast adaptive events...[more]

By Roméo Ricci (2017 Fellow) Inflammation is necessary to alleviate tissue damage caused by pathogens, toxic agents or injury. Uncontrolled inflammation, however, can cause disease as exemplified in...[more]

By Stéphane Berciaud (2015 Fellow) Over the past fifteen years, intense research activity has emerged on the science of so-called two-dimensional (2D) materials. These systems compose a unique...[more]

The annual conference of the GECO (Groupe d’Étude en Chimie Organique – Group of Studies in Organic Chemistry) will bring together around 80 chemists with speakers from prestigious universities from...[more]