Francqui Chair 2023-2024

Professor Jean-Benoit Pilet, Professor of Political Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

is invited by the Université de Namur, Faculty of Political Sciences.

Inaugural Lecture : Tuesday 9 April 2024, 18.00

Subject : « Une démocratie en crise(s) ? » [FR]

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Registration to the Inaugural Lecture is not needed.

Collen-Francqui Chair 2023-2024

Professor Piet Hoebeke, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Gent Universiteit, and a urologist affiliated with UZ Gent

invited by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universiteit Antwerpen.

(Photo © Wannes Nimmegeers )

Inaugural Lecture : Wednesday 10th of April 2024, 16.00

Subject : « Gender in de Blender » [NL]

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Collen-Francqui Chair 2023-2024

Professor Robert Verpoorte, Professor emeritus of Pharmacognosy (in particular plant cell biotechnology) at the Universiteit Leiden

is invited by the Factulty of Pharmacy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Inaugural Lecture : this lecture is postponed, the new date is yet to be confirmed

Subject : « Learn from nature and our ancestors  » [EN]

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Registration to this Inaugural Lecture is not necessary.

International Francqui Chair 2022-2023 (delayed Chair)

Patrick Fowler, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor emeritus of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield,

is invited by the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kulak.

Participating universities : Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Univeristé de Mons and Université de Namur.

Inaugural Lecture : Wednesday 24 April 2024, 19.00

Subject : « In search of Coulson’s Lost Theorem » [EN]

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