Past events
29th USIAS Fellows seminar: Fusion reactions in massive stars: the secret of life
By Sandrine Courtin, USIAS Fellow 2015. Nuclear reactions feed the stars throughout their lives while producing all the chemical elements that surround us, including those that are indispensable for...[more]
USIAS Fellows Christmas drinks
L'occasion de lever une verre à une année réussie pour l'USIAS, avec tous les Fellows actuels et anciens. We will lift the glass to celebrate a successful year for USIAS, with all current and former...[more]
28th USIAS Fellows seminar: How Magnetism Changed the World Three Times
By Michael Coey, USIAS Fellow 2014 Magnetism has been a microcosm of the history of science for more than two millennia. The weirdness of magnetic repulsion and attraction, its directionality, and...[more]
Kyoto Lecture: Origin of the human mind viewed from the study of chimpanzees
By Tetsuro Matsuzawa Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study The lecture of Professor Matsuzawa is part of the Kyoto Lectures Series. Places are limited, registration...[more]
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]
