Lecture in Leuven with fellows Uğur Ümit Üngör (University of Amsterdam), Yuki Miyamoto (DePaul University), Nahed Samour (Radboud University) and Dirk Moses (The City College of New York). Peter Vermeersch (KU leuven) will moderate the debate.
Rick van der Ploeg (Research Director of Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, Oxford University;
Professor ‘Environmental Economics’, University of Amsterdam).
Dementia is increasingly being recognised as a public health priority and one of the greatest challenges we face as a society. This book brings together international experts from different disciplines, including medicine, social psychology, nursing, economics and literary studies. They work together to develop integrative policies focusing on social inclusion and quality of life.
Dementia is increasingly being recognised as a public health priority and one of the greatest challenges we face as a society. This book brings together international experts from different disciplines, including medicine, social psychology, nursing, economics and literary studies. They work together to develop integrative policies focusing on social inclusion and quality of life.
Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS) invites applications for visiting scholars within the project ‘New living arrangements for the boomer generation’ (March-May 2023). The total duration of a stay at LIAS should at least be 1 month, with 3 months as a maximum.
Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS) invites applications for visiting junior fellows within the project ‘Media and Artificial Intelligence’ (25 November-7 December 2022).
On 13, 18 and 25 May 2022 LIAS organised three expert lectures in the framework of the project 'Societal aspects of climate change'. In the Hollands College Robert Jeszke (Poland), Florian Kaiser (Germany) and Lindsay Bremner (UK) were speaking successively about the role energy conversion, behavioural change and big cities play in the climate issue.
For complex challenges an interdisciplinary synthesis can be more important and more relevant than technical and disciplinary expertise. Global problems require an international synthesis.