Past events
Fellows seminar - Innovative foam-based cleaning concepts for historical objects
– Aqueous foams in contact with non-aqueous compounds – By Cosima Stubenrauch, 2018 Fellow The historical surfaces of artistic and cultural objects can be regarded as the ‘faces’ of these pieces of...[more]
Events cancelled during coronavirus epidemic
All events have been cancelled until further notice during the coronavirus epidemic. For more information, please check the coronavirus situation report published by the University of...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar - Social environment, stress and evolutionary success
By Stephen Dobson (2018 Fellow) and Vincent Viblanc (host, IPHC) See a short video about this research (Le Monde, 31 January 2020) Socially stressed? Effects of the social environment on the...[more]
Public lecture: Modernism's Visible Hand
Modernism's Visible Hand: How architecture shaped the modern way of life By Michael OsmanProfessor of Architectural HistoryUniversity of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Register here Modernist...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar - An emerging actor in neurogenesis: PARP3
By Françoise Dantzer (Fellow 2017) An emerging actor in neurogenesis: PARP3 and astrocytic differentiation Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP, 17 members) is a family of proteins involved in a...[more]
Book presentation: Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man
USIAS Fellow Tijana Vujosevic (University of Western Australia) will present her recent book Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man (Manchester University Press, 2017). The creation of...[more]
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]
