Past events
Fellows Seminar - Deep learning-driven identification and behavioral-physiological responses of Humboldt penguins to an intruder
By Yvon Le Maho and Víctor Planas-Bielsa, 2022 Fellows Using the famous silhouette that appeared as either a hawk or a goose depending upon its direction of movement, Konrad Lorenz and Nicolas...[more]
Lecture by Serge Haroche during International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP)
Professor Serge Haroche, from the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure of Paris, will give a public lecture on Saturday 6 July 2024, entitled “The usefulness of useless knowledge:...[more]
Lecture - The Lady of Elephantine
As part of the Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series "Feminizing the Landscape: The Female Form in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Islamic World", Professor Frédéric Colin is one of the three...[more]
Fellows seminar - Book, codex and portable library: manuscript 2119 of Strasbourg's National and University Library
By Marie-Sophie Winter, 2023 Fellow Followed by a guided tour of the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (BNU). The seminar will be bilingual in French and English. From April 2024 to April...[more]
International Colloquium - Queer Antiquity: History, Reception, Creation
The colloquium and a doctoral workshop are organised by Sandra Boehringer (Archaeology and Ancient History: Mediterranean-Europe - ArcHiMedE) and Todd Reeser (University of Pittsburgh, USA and 2021...[more]
Fellows Seminar - France’s first vaccine campaign
By Meghan Roberts, 2023 Fellow In the 18th century, smallpox was one of Europe’s deadliest and most feared diseases. Inspired by Turkish and African practitioners, Europeans had practiced...[more]
Exchanges on the book by Petros Stangos - The making of European social jurisprudence
During his Fellowship at USIAS, Professor Petros Stangos worked on a book project entitled ‘In the making of the European social jurisprudence - the 'collective complaints' decisions of the European...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Biocrystallography: from the DNA double helix to molecular cinema
By Claude Sauter, 2021 Fellow Since the 1960s, crystallography has made a decisive contribution to the development of molecular biology thanks to its ability to reveal the innermost secrets of...[more]
