Past events
Workshop: Academic Work Today
The objective of the workshop is to analyse the new conditions of academic work in relation to some current evolutions at the global level: the development of assessment and accountability, the...[more]
12th USIAS Fellows Seminar : Economic Growth and Gender Equality
Claude Diebolt, Fellow 2012, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée Throughout human history, the improvement of gender equality seems partly related to demographic transition but it also seems...[more]
11th USIAS Fellows Seminar - Derived plant-viruses and cancer treatment
Manfred Heinlein, Fellow 2012, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology Plant viruses are all around us and do not cause diseases in humans. Particles of those viruses can be mass-produced in plants or...[more]
Colloque : Nietzsche philologue et philosophe
Depuis quelques années, de nouveaux travaux prennent en compte de manière significative non seulement la relation de Nietzsche aux Grecs, mais encore son activité de « philologue professionnel »,...[more]
Symposium - Democratic Security
Today, the main threats to security seem to originate from within States rather than between them. The risk of a downward spiral of distrust and fear in societies, caused by economic, social and...[more]
10th USIAS Fellows Seminar - Soft Robotics
Matteo Mauro, Fellow 2013, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering Soft robotics is currently an emerging research field, due to the great potential application in surgery devices,...[more]
USIAS Distinguished Lecture: Klaus von Klitzing
From Quantum Hall Effect to a New System of Units The quantized Hall resistance (Nobel Prize 1985) plays a crucial role in the implementation of a new international system of units (SI units) since...[more]
