Past events
The Chow group

The Chow group: recent restults and applications Arnaud Beauville Professeur (em.) at the Université de NiceMember of the Institut Universitaire de France More information[more]
Workshop: Animal Cognition - Do Animals Think?

Cognition is the study of animals’ perception and interpretation of their physical and social worlds. This field of study has long focused on the evolution of human intelligence by studying closely...[more]
13th USIAS Fellows Seminar USIAS: Origin of animal magnetic sense

Hervé Cadiou, Fellow 2013, Institute of Cellular Integrative Neurosciences Twice a year, many animal species perform long distance migrations, such as the Arctic tern, a 35 000 km trans pole journey...[more]
A closer look: The globalization of higher education

A closer look: The globalization of higher education Susan Robertson, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Bristol Universities and higher education systems worldwide are being...[more]
Workshop: Academic Work Today

The objective of the workshop is to analyse the new conditions of academic work in relation to some current evolutions at the global level: the development of assessment and accountability, the...[more]
12th USIAS Fellows Seminar : Economic Growth and Gender Equality
Claude Diebolt, Fellow 2012, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée Throughout human history, the improvement of gender equality seems partly related to demographic transition but it also seems...[more]
11th USIAS Fellows Seminar - Derived plant-viruses and cancer treatment

Manfred Heinlein, Fellow 2012, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology Plant viruses are all around us and do not cause diseases in humans. Particles of those viruses can be mass-produced in plants or...[more]
Colloque : Nietzsche philologue et philosophe

Depuis quelques années, de nouveaux travaux prennent en compte de manière significative non seulement la relation de Nietzsche aux Grecs, mais encore son activité de « philologue professionnel »,...[more]