Past events

Edith Foster, Fellow 2014, Case Western Reserve University The ancient Greek historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon wrote the history of a continuous period in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE....[more]

Jenny Ozga, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Oxford Salle de Conférence, MISHA5, allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg Data have become the lifeblood of education governance. At...[more]

The interest in visual and material culture in the past is growing, as it provides valuable additional source material adding dimensions to our understanding beyond what can be grasped from written...[more]

Odile Petit, USIAS Fellow 2013 Every day, humans make decisions about issues of interest for the community they represent. It is often suggested that certain individuals can act as leaders because...[more]

Over recent years it has become apparent that the power of cytochromes P450s can be recruited for the clean, green chemical synthesis of important intermediates in the bulk chemical, pharmaceutical...[more]

Brian Kobilka Brian K. Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and laureate of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for his work on G protein-coupled receptors...[more]

Pierre Miège, Fellow 2014, Beijing Normal University China has been going through profound transformations since the late 1970s, especially with the dismantling of the “work unit system” which used...[more]

John Hanly, Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease. SLE most often harms the heart, joints,...[more]