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Eighth IinteR-La+B in Bern

The eighth meeting of IinteR-La+b (International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory) was held at the Haus der Akademien, Bern, on November 13, 2019. The meeting was devoted to the topic: BRAIN – Neurosciences, innovation and effects.

16-11-2019

News

BALZAN PRIZES 2019 AWARDED IN BERN (Video)

750,000 Swiss Francs (approx. €680 000, $760 000, GBP 620 000) for each of the four subjects.
Prizewinners must allocate half of the amount to research projects

15-11-2019

Press releases

Balzan Prizes 2019 awarded in Berne

Bern,15 November 2019 - Today, During the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, this year’s Balzan Prizes were presented to: Jacques Aumont (France) for Film Studies, Michael Cook (UK) for Islamic Studies, Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) for Theory of Partial Differential Equations, the research group composed by Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte of the DZL (Germany), for Pathophysiology of respiration...

15-11-2019

Events

Annual Balzan Lecture 2019: Bina Agarwal in Rome

Bina Agarwal, 2017 Balzan Prize for Gender Studies, will deliver the 2019 Annual Balzan Lecture at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome on Tuesday 19 November.

05-11-2019

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Balzan Prizewinner Michel Mayor wins the Nobel Prize

Michel Mayor, 2000 Balzan Prizewinner for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics, is one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Didier Queloz and James Peebles).

08-10-2019

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THE 2019 BALZAN PRIZEWINNERS

The names of the 2019 Balzan Prizewinners were disclosed today in a public announcement

09-09-2019

Press releases

Balzan Prize: an Award to Research

With the share of the Prizes awarded in 2018, the total amount of research funding by the Balzan Prize reached 32 million Swiss francs (approx. EUR 30,000,000, US$ 32,000,000) in 18 years.

09-09-2019

Press releases

Press Kit of the Balzan Foundation - Ceremony 2019

■ Foundation
■ Prizewinners
■ Bodies

08-09-2019

Press releases

2019 Prize Subject Areas: short Profiles

■ Film Studies
■ Islamic Studies
■ Theory of Partial Differential Equations
■ Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside

08-09-2019

News

Balzan goes social

The Balzan Prize and the Foundation are now on Twitter (@BalzanPrize) and on LinkedIn (Balzan Foundation).

02-09-2019

Events

TRAPPIST-1 Conference in Liege

The multidisciplinary conference TRAPPIST-1, named after the extrasolar system studied by Michaël Gillon (2017 Balzan Prize for The Sun’s Planetary System and Exoplanets), will take place from 11 to 14 June 2019 at the University of Liege.

03-06-2019

Events

Humanitarian Action: Balzan-USI Meeting in Lugano on 14 May

"Humanitarian Action and Solidarity: New Challenges, Principles and Practice" on 14 May 2019 in Lugano, meeting organized by the International Balzan Foundation and USI - Università della Svizzera italiana 

26-04-2019

News

Jean Starobinski 1920 - 2019

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

07-03-2019

News

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

Press Review

Three Interviews with Prizewinner Marilyn Strathern

El Mundo, Berliner Zeitung, Corriere del Ticino (download)

13-02-2019

News

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

Press releases

I Premi Balzan 2018 consegnati a Roma

23-11-2018

News

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

News

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

Events

Round Tables with Rosalyn Higgins in Milan and Lugano

Milan  29 May, Lugano 30 May, 2018. Tor two round tables on the theme of international Law

31-05-2018

Events

Annual Balzan lecture: Federico Capasso in Lugano

Cascade lasers and flat optics for the 21st century.
It was held on 12 April 2018, as part of the international symposium # digitale21

15-04-2018

Press Review

Interviews with 2017 Balzan Prizewinners from the German Press

Berliner Zeitung
Der Standard
St Galler Tagblatt
Cluverius

27-02-2018

Events

Evening in Milan in Memory of James Sloss Ackerman

On 31 January 2018 in the Sala Meili, the Swiss Centre in Milan; Architettura: una storia. Ricordando James Sloss Ackerman

31-01-2018

News

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

Press releases

Luciano Maiani Chairman of the General Prize Commitee

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17-01-2018

Events

The 2017 Balzan Prizewinners' Interdisciplinary Forum in Berne

James Allison and Robert Schreiber, Michaël Gillon, Robert O. Keohane, Bina Agarwal, Aleida and Jan Assmann at the Yehudi Menuhin Forum

01-11-2017

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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

Events

Annual Balzan Lecture by Francis Halzen in Rome

IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos.
Accademia dei Lincei 11/10/2017

12-10-2017

News

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

Events

Utopia and Enlightenment in Milan

Utopia e Lumi. La lezione di Bronislaw Baczko, in occasione della pubblicazione del Dictionnaire critique de l'utopie au temps des Lumières

21-06-2017

News

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

News

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

Events

Balzan Lecture by Manuel Castells at the USI - Lugano

Manuel Castells delivered a public lecture entitled The Crisis of the Liberal Democracy from Brexit to Trump and Beyond at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano

22-05-2017

News

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

News

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

News

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

Events

Incontro sull'Utopia all'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Parigi

The event followed up on the recent publication of the "Dictionnaire critique de l'utopie au temps des Lumières", in the frame of Bronislaw Baczko's Balzan Research Project.

10-01-2017

Events

2016 Annual Balzan Lecture: Pascale Cossart in Lausanne

The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: a unique model in biology

14-12-2016

News

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

Events

The 2016 Balzan Prizewinners' Interdisciplinary Forum in Rome

Reinhard Jahn, Piero Boitani and Federico Capasso at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

18-11-2016

Events

Balzan Lecture by Alain Aspect at the USI - Lugano

From the Einstein-Bohr debate to a new quantum revolution

08-10-2016

Events

Lectio Magistralis by André Vauchez in Milan

Dai santi ai santuari: lo spazio e il sacro nell'occidente cristiano.

08-09-2016

News

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

News

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

Press Review

Selection of articles Balzan Prizes 2015

Interviews with the four 2015 Balzan Prizewinners in European newspapers: Badische Zeitung (Germany), Corriere del Ticino (Switzerland), Delo (Slovenia), Der Standard (Austria,) De Standaard (Belgium), El Mundo (Spain)

19-05-2016

Events

Lectures by Jules Hoffmann in Lugano and Milano

L'immunité innée des insectes à l'homme

21-09-2015

Press Review

The New York Review of Books, 7 November 2013, publishes Ronald Dworkin

The New York Review of Books (50th Anniversary special issue) has published Ronald Dworkin's Balzan discourse

30-10-2013

Press Review

Interviews with Reinhard Strohm in important Italian and Austrian media

Two daily newspapers, Der Standard and Il Sole 24 Ore, a weekly magazine, Profil, and the monthly Amadeus have interviewed the 2012 Balzan Prizewinner for Musicology (download)

19-06-2013
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