Past events
26th USIAS Fellows seminar - Towards a membrane penetrating copper shuttle
By Peter Faller, USIAS Fellow 2015 The metal content of living organisms is normally lower than the most abundant elements oxygen (O), hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). The most abundant...[more]
25th USIAS Seminar - Atomic Electron Tomography: 3D Structures without Crystals
By Jianwei (John) Miao, UCLA, USIAS Fellow 2015 The discovery and analysis of x-ray diffraction from crystals by Max von Laue, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg in 1912 marked the birth...[more]
24th USIAS Seminar - Connection of Nanotubes and Fullerenes
Alex Adronov, Fellow 2015, McMaster University In his USIAS Fellowship project, Alex Adronov, in collaboration with Jean-Francois Nierengarten (ECPM, Strasbourg) aims to produce a fundamentally new...[more]
Colloque - Les accidents et l'Etat au XXe siècle
Accidents and the State in the 20th Century FRIAS-USIAS Workshop June 9-10, 2016 FRIAS, Albertstraße 19, Seminar Room Organised by: Peter Itzen, Birgit Metzger, Anne Rasmussen...[more]
Journées d'études - Jeux et enjeux de la linguistique au début de ce XXIe siècle
Round Tables: Experiences of the Great War
For a long time, the First World War was studied mainly from the political, diplomatic and military perspective, in a strictly national framework. In the last two decades, the "Great War" has become...[more]
23rd USIAS Fellows Seminar - The "Theory of Mind" precursors
Hélène Meunier, Fellow 2014, Université de Strasbourg The « Theory of Mind », the ability to evaluate the mental state of others, the understanding of feelings, perceptions and intentions of someone...[more]
Colloque Diversité et religion
Ce colloque conclut, mais n’achève pas, une réflexion collaborative et transdisciplinaire visant à réexaminer la valeur et la puissance heuristique du terme de « diversité » appliqué à l’histoire,...[more]
