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Balzan Prizes 2019 to be announced in Milan on 9 September

The Prizewinners of the four Balzan Prizes 2019 will be officially announced in Milan next 9 September, Monday. 

12-07-2019

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Jean Starobinski 1920 - 2019

The International Balzan Foundation joins in mourning the passing of Jean Starobinski on 4 March. 

07-03-2019

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Wallace Broecker 1931 - 2019

The International Balzan Foundation mourns the death of Wallace Broecker, 2008 Balzan Prizewinner for the Science of Climate Change.

19-02-2019

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Balzan Prizes 2018 presented in Rome

The Balzan Prizes 2018 were presented today by the President of the Italian Republic, during the ceremony, which took place at the Auditorium of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

23-11-2018

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Seventh IinteR-La+B in Rome

The seventh meeting of IinteR-La+b (International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory) was held at the Accademia Nazionale di Lincei, Rome, on November 16, 2011. The meeting was devoted to the topic: Memory.

22-11-2018

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The Balzan Papers presented in Rome

On 22 November in Rome the first issue of the Balzan Papers, edited by Salvatore Veca, was presented.

14-11-2018

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THE 2018 BALZAN PRIZEWINNERS

Marilyn Strathern (UK) Jürgen Osterhammel (Germany) Detlef Lohse (Germany/Netherlands) Eva Kondorosi (Hungary) Terre des hommes (Switzerland)

10-09-2018

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2018 Prizewinners to be announced on 10 September (Streaming)

It will be awarded also the Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity Among Peoples

18-07-2018

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Luciano Maiani Chairman of the General Prize Committee

LUCIANO MAIANI is the new Chairman of the Balzan General Prize Committee
DONATELLA DELLA PORTA and SALWA EL-SHAWAN CASTELO-BRANCO have been nominated as Members

18-01-2018

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THE 2017 BALZAN PRIZES PRESENTED IN BERNE

17-11-2017

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The "New Oppenheim" by R. Higgins: launch in New York

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
"Oppenheim's International Law: United Nations" with author Rosalyn Higgins
UNITED NATIONS BOOKSHOP New York - USA

19-10-2017

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THE 2017 BALZAN PRIZEWINNERS

Aleida and Jan Assmann (Germany),
Bina Agarwal (India),
James P. Allison and Robert D. Schreiber (USA),
Michaël Gillon (Belgium),
Robert O. Keohane, (USA)

12-09-2017

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New Members on the Balzan General Prize Committee

Børge Diderichsen and Nathalie Heinich have been appointed to the General Prize Committee of the International Balzan Foundation "Prize". They replace Marc Van Montagu and Dominique Schnapper...

03-07-2017

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A Project for the Independent Theater: conversation with Manfred Brauneck

Independent theatre is the subject of Manfred Brauneck’s Balzan research project, which concluded with the publication of a highly significant work that Brauneck summarizes for Henning Klüver in a recent conversation held in Hamburg.

12-06-2017

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A global Project for the Music: Interview with Reinhard Strohm

Walter Rauhe met with Reinhard Strohm for a dialogue on some of the many subjects that emerged from his important and complex Research Project.

24-05-2017

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Appointments to the Balzan Foundation "Fund" Board

Gisèle Girgis-Musy named as Chairman of the Balzan "Fund" Board. André Bandi appointed as a new member of the Board.

17-05-2017

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The Syriac World Rediscovered: an Interview

Fruit of meticulous interdisciplinary work, Syriaca.org is the cornerstone upon which Peter Brown’s Balzan research project entitled Figures in Landscape has been built. Peter Brown, Balzan Prize for Ancient History, and David Michelson, project leader, illustrate this innovative form of historical-cultural corpus in an interview by Susannah Gold.

20-03-2017

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Meeting on Utopia at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris

Entitled Penser l'Utopie on Friday 20 January 2017. The event follows up on the recent publication of the Dictionnaire critique de l'utopie au temps des Lumières under the direction of Bronislaw Baczko

10-01-2017

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Fifth IinteR-La+B in Rome

The fifth meeting of IinteR-La+b  was held at the Accademia di Lincei, Rome, on November 16, 2011. The topic: Innovation.

22-11-2016

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Interview: a "new Oppenheim" for Rosalyn Higgins

Rosalyn Higgins and the young collaborators working under her Balzan research project are on the final stretch of the enormous work of editing a "new Oppenheim". In an interview by Susannah Gold, Dame Rosalyn explained the phases of conceiving and implementing work on the new volume of one of the most fundamental treatises on law of our times.

08-07-2016

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A Dictionary of Utopia: Book Launch in Geneva

On 16 June 2016 in Geneva there will be a book launch for the Dictionnaire critique de l'Utopie au temps des Lumières. The dictionary is the fruit of the research project funded with the second half of Bronislaw Baczko’s 2011 Balzan Prize.

25-05-2016

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