Past events
Neuroeconomics: studying decision-making in an economic context
This workshop is organised by Neurex – the Neuroscience Upper Rhine network (programme in pdf). It is being co-funded by USIAS and involves Jean-Christophe Cassel (2015 FRIAS-USIAS Fellow) and Alan...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar - The Great Illusion: there is no Invisible Hand
By Alan Kirman (2017 Fellow) What has systematically been asserted since the enlightenment and has been reinforced by the political and social underpinnings of liberal democracy, is that there is an...[more]
Chair of Immunology Lecture: Stem cell transplantation in autoimmune diseases
By Dr. Kentaro AkiyamaSenior Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Oral Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine,Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical SciencesOkayama University,...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: Strasbourg, laboratory of modernity
By Alexandre Kostka (2015 Fellow) Strasbourg, laboratory of modernity. New perspectives on a shared "German" past: a research project and its development. The period of 1880-1930 was a crucial time...[more]
USIAS Fellows Seminar: Are we living in a post-migrant society?
By Ursula Apitzsch (2017 Fellow) Are we living in a post-migrant society? Generational experiences among the descendants of immigrant families Migration processes crucially shape the experiences of...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar - Small and fast
By Florian Banhart & Thomas LaGrange (2017 Fellows) Small and fast: how we can observe rapid movements at the nanoscale in an ultrafast electron microscope We know from our daily life how difficult...[more]
Conference: Belongings and Borders – Biographies, Mobilities, and the Politics of Migration
Current political and media discourses on the questions of “integration”, “belonging” and “borders” are dominated by the perspectives of Western nation states. The objective of this midterm...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar : The music of mathematics
By Moreno Andreatta (2017 Fellow) Popular music (pop, rock jazz and songs) represents a very rich object of study, particularly when it is analysed with the simple tools of mathematics and...[more]