Past events
Workshop: Globalising Practices in the Governance of Higher Education and Research
This workshop presents a research programme that bridges the divide between research on higher education and research policy. The programme is built around three cases which together shed light on...[more]
Symposium Annuel 2016 : Maurice Godelier - L'imaginaire et le symbolique
Médaillé d’Or du CNRS, lauréat du Prix international Alexander von Humboldt en sciences sociales, Maurice Godelier est l’un des principaux chefs de file de l’anthropologie française.[more]
Public Lecture - Interactions between humans: Social evaluation by capuchin monkeys
By James R. Anderson, Professor at the Department of Psychology, Kyoto University. Please register for the conference via this link. Recent studies have demonstrated possible precursors of the...[more]
27th USIAS seminar: Books and scientific libraries in National-Socialist Europe
By Catherine Maurer, USIAS Fellow 2015 In the German National-Socialist regime, libraries were quickly included in the new objectives of ideological purity and totalitarian conformity. Many books...[more]
26th USIAS Fellows seminar - Towards a membrane penetrating copper shuttle
By Peter Faller, USIAS Fellow 2015 The metal content of living organisms is normally lower than the most abundant elements oxygen (O), hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). The most abundant...[more]
25th USIAS Seminar - Atomic Electron Tomography: 3D Structures without Crystals
By Jianwei (John) Miao, UCLA, USIAS Fellow 2015 The discovery and analysis of x-ray diffraction from crystals by Max von Laue, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg in 1912 marked the birth...[more]
24th USIAS Seminar - Connection of Nanotubes and Fullerenes
Alex Adronov, Fellow 2015, McMaster University In his USIAS Fellowship project, Alex Adronov, in collaboration with Jean-Francois Nierengarten (ECPM, Strasbourg) aims to produce a fundamentally new...[more]
Colloque - Les accidents et l'Etat au XXe siècle
Accidents and the State in the 20th Century FRIAS-USIAS Workshop June 9-10, 2016 FRIAS, Albertstraße 19, Seminar Room Organised by: Peter Itzen, Birgit Metzger, Anne Rasmussen...[more]
