Past events
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]
20th USIAS Fellows Seminar - Informal Europeanization of sport

William Gasparini, Fellow 2013, Université de Strasbourg For sports as well as other domains, europeanisation refers to the elaboration, diffusion and institutionalisation of formal and informal...[more]
Conference - Thucydides : A possession for all time

By P.J. Rhodes, Durham University Hosted by Edith Foster (USIAS Fellow 2014) The study of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, like the study of the classics more generally, has changed in...[more]
19th USIAS Fellows Seminar - Re-thinking religious in the plural: toward diversification of religious landscapes

Lionel Obadia, Fellow 2014, Université Lyon-2 The examination of forms and reasons of the diversity of beliefs and practices, as well as their targets, is not possible without a parallel analysis of...[more]
Religious diversity: Comparative views East and West

Issues of diversity have become crucial all around the world for political and social reasons. Modernization and globalization has produced more fragmentation and creativity in religious landscapes,...[more]