Past events
Open Fellows seminar - When chemistry goes chiral
Chirality is a geometric property of asymmetry. In chemistry, a molecule is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations or translations. The word...[more]
Fellows seminar - Playing evolution, or learning to live without (really) important proteins
By Alexandre Smirnov, 2020 Fellow Everyone has now heard of RNA (ribonucleic acid). It is an essential part of gene expression in all living beings, from bacteria to humans. The existence and...[more]
Meeting - Minoritised? Stigmatised populations, issues and forms of re-recognition in France
In France, the issue of minority groups seems to be more instrumentalized than truly addressed. It struggles to find a place in both public and academic spaces. In both cases, the spectre of...[more]
Annual Symposium 2022 - Racism and antisemitism today: the old… and the new
The keynote speaker for the 2022 symposium is the sociologist Michel Wieviorka (EHESS, Paris), well known for his research on social and cultural movements, democracy and conflict, as well as on...[more]
Fellows seminar - The right to healthy and sustainable food
By Élisabeth Lambert, 2020 Fellow The question about the existence of a right to healthy and sustainable food in Europe is not easy to answer. Not only because we may have difficulties in agreeing...[more]
Colloquium "Habitabilities: architecture, city and nature in the era of the anthropocene
The global depletion of resources, whether material, civic or ideological, is leading us dangerously into a crisis of habitability, the consequences of which we are already perceiving and...[more]
Joint Fellows seminar - The role of the circadian clock
By Atish Mukherji and Tsvetan Serchov Both these 2020 Fellows work on different aspects of the circadian clock. They will present their respective research during a joint seminar, with two separate...[more]
Symposium on Condensed Conjugation
A collaborative Strasbourg-Japan USIAS symposium on Condensed Conjugation will be held in Strasbourg from 12-13 September 2022. The symposium is funded by USIAS, the Interdisciplinary Thematic...[more]
