Past events

By Frédéric Colin, 2019 Fellow The funerary temple of Pediamenopet, a Chief Priest believed to have several pharaohs, is a vast monument of the Late Pharaonic Period (8th-7th century BC) located...[more]

By Franck Fischbach and Éric Pineault, 2020 Fellows Recent advances in socio-metabolic research have highlighted the material base of stocks and flows implied in the economic growth of capitalist...[more]

Living in a group usually provides many benefits, but it also causes stress. Social relations can be a great support, increasing chances of survival; but they can also be a source of social...[more]

By Mir Wais Hosseini, 2015 Fellow Movements are ubiquitous in all living entities such as animals and vegetals. At the molecular level, the control of intramolecular movements, i.e. the relative...[more]

  In this seminar, five USIAS Fellows will present the results of their research in their respective areas. The seminar will be held in English and is open to USIAS Fellows as well as to the wider...[more]

By Semyon Klevtsov, 2020 Fellow Strongly-correlated quantum systems are often extremely fragile and notoriously hard to control, which poses challenges for possible technological applications. That...[more]

The molecular basis of natural antiviral resistance against Dengue and Zika viruses in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes By João Marques, 2019 Fellow Viral epidemics have gained increasing attention due to...[more]

By Jacob Rogozinski, 2018 Fellow In the project that I proposed to USIAS, Towards a hermeneutic of emancipation: the paradigm of Exodus, my original hypothesis was that the three monotheisms were...[more]