Past events
USIAS Fellows seminar: Africa in the future: forecast, counterfactual history and speculative fiction / Narrating African futures
By Anthony Mangeon (2017 Fellow) The question of Africa’s future has, for a long time, been an essential geopolitical and economic issue, and treated as such in a wide variety of speeches and visual...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: implementation of light-powered nanomachines into Active Polymer Materials
Nicolas Giuseppone & Andreas Walther (2017 Fellows) Molecular machines can generate mechanical work from chemical fuels or light at the nanoscale, and are able to produce new functions by energy...[more]
USIAS Annual Symposium 2019: The Modern University & The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
This year's Symposium will feature two distinguished speakers, Alison Wolf Baroness of Dulwich, of King's College London, who will address the issue of the future of universities, and Martin Wolf of...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar - The power of cooperation: characterising the functions of bacterial sRNAs
By Wolfgang R. Hess and Pascale Romby (2017 FRIAS-USIAS Fellows) Bacteria have to constantly adapt their metabolism and growth to ever-changing environmental conditions. These fast adaptive events...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: How inter-organelle communication in the cell links danger signals to inflammation
By Roméo Ricci (2017 Fellow) Inflammation is necessary to alleviate tissue damage caused by pathogens, toxic agents or injury. Uncontrolled inflammation, however, can cause disease as exemplified in...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: Playing atomically thin drums
By Stéphane Berciaud (2015 Fellow) Over the past fifteen years, intense research activity has emerged on the science of so-called two-dimensional (2D) materials. These systems compose a unique...[more]
60th Annual GECO conference
The annual conference of the GECO (Groupe d’Étude en Chimie Organique – Group of Studies in Organic Chemistry) will bring together around 80 chemists with speakers from prestigious universities from...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: Systems of social representation of disability in Haiti, between invisibility and burden
By Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom & Frédéric Reichhart (2018 Fellows) The present communication proposes an overview of our research since June 2018. Based on observations, individual interviews and...[more]
