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Jean-Jacques Hublin
Homo sapiens’ evolution in northwestern Africa is explored by applying cutting-edge analytic methods to records from Moroccan cave sites and working with local researchers to recon-struct anatomy, technology, diet and symbolism; all findings to be on open access.
David Damrosch
Damrosch’s research project will bring around ten graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to the Institute for World Literature as members of the year’s Balzan Colloquium. Each summer for five years, they will develop their work on a common topic in world literary studies for publication.
Michael N. Hall
An immense body of knowledge on TOR signalling and cell growth has grown since Hall’s discovery of the protein. Driven by curiosity and exceptional teamwork, it shows the value of invertebrate model organisms in biomedical research, leading to significant clinical advancements.
Braithwaite’s Balzan research project aims to renew and expand the social movement for restorative justice by connecting young scholars in Africa, China, and worldwide to collaborations with scholars from Europe and across the Global North, China, and Australia.
Omar Yaghi
Yaghi gives an overview of his career, showing how the development of reticular chemistry through his work on MOFs extended the chemistry of metal-complexes to infinite 2D and 3D with profound implications on how we view, make, and use materials.
Lorraine Daston
“Yesterday’s scientific truth is today’s scientific error.” Daston’s statement underlies her work as a historian of science, emphasizing the contrast between the philosophical pursuit of eternal reason and the dynamic nature of scientific progress.
Marco Ferrari
Marco Ferrari presents Suzanne Simard’s work on plant societies and the Wood Wide Web in all its complexity, through the scientific debate on the subject, myths that have grown up around it, a comparison of other theories.
Piero Boitani
Ever the comparatist, Piero Boitani reflects on his expansive academic journey, which spans from antiquity and medieval literature in England and Europe, through philology, to 20th-century African American literature in the US and world literature.
Francesco Ranci
In reviewing Balzan Prizewinners’ contributions to the history of science, Ranci highlights Lorraine Daston’s (2024 Balzan Prize, History of Modern and Contemporary Science) call for a collective effort to create and maintain “a new way to talk about science”.
John Braithwaite
Because crime hurts, justice should heal: restorative justice involves all stakeholders in an injustice to listen, discuss, and agree on actions to make things right. Braithwaite, a champion in this field, explains its workings.
Rezek presents his research on the biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens in northwestern Africa from 130,000 to 10,000 years ago, as revealed by excavations in two cave sites in Rabat-Temara in Morocco, Dar Es-Soltan 2 and Contrabandiers Cave.
Ceka explains why researchers should be concerned with matters outside their immediate field of interest, and why the IinteR-La+B provides an important opportunity for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue.
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