Past events
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]
USIAS Fellows seminar: Creating, controlling and understanding complex quantum matter with ultracold atoms
By Shannon Whitlock, USIAS Fellow 2017 Quantum mechanics describes nature at the smallest of scales. It is also responsible for the collective behaviour of matter at low temperatures which often...[more]
Public lecture: The Spread Mind: A mind-object identity approach to the problem of consciousness
By Riccardo Manzotti - Professor of theoretical philosophy - International University of Languages and Media (IULM), Milan, Italy Consciousness is still an elusive phenomenon whose nature and causes...[more]
USIAS Annual Symposium 2018: Enabling the Disabled - Technological Reality and the Societal Perspective
The 2018 Annual Symposium will feature the eminent neurosurgeon Alim-Louis Benabid, a pioneer of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and, more recently, of the development of an...[more]
Distinguished Lecture, Jeffrey V. Ravetch : Fc Receptors – Drivers of Immunity
Access Registration Poster Photos Programme 10:30 Opening remarks and introduction by Jules Hoffmann, Chair of Integrative Biology, USIAS 10:40 Lecture by Jeffrey V. Ravetch,...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: George Sand and the Poetics of Genius
By Isabelle Hoog Naginski, Tufts University, Boston, US; Fellow 2018 While scholars have studied the effects of 19th-century French medical research on sexing genius as male in the realm of...[more]
