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The warlike desires of modernity

As part of its seminar series, the Arcadie Center at the ESPHIN Research Institute is pleased to welcome Déborah V. Brosteaux for a session dedicated to her book Les désirs guerriers de la modernité (The Warrior Desires of Modernity), Seuil, 2025.

Offline, out of the game? Let's fight the digital divide.

Come and attend this new digital session! 

Francqui Chair 2025-2026 in the Faculty of Law | Need for the environment, need for law?

Lesson 2 | Environmental law under threat of extinction?Speaker: Delphine Misonne, FNRS Senior Research Fellow, Professor at UCLouvain, Director of CEDRE and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Women in Science 2026 | 6th edition

This annual event aims to promote women's and girls' access to science and technology and their full and equal participation.

Laetitia Ciccolini (Sorbonne University)

Augustine's Enchiridion through its summaries: circulation, reception, uses

Francqui Chair 2025-2026 in the Faculty of Science | Repairing our relationship with Nature to transform our societies

Lesson 2 | A toxic relationship between humans and nature?

UTAN Conference | Planning your estate: understanding, anticipating, and transferring assets with peace of mind

The UTAN conferences are followed by a reception to continue the meeting.

Film discussion based on Sammy Baloji's film "The Tree of Authenticity"

The Alimenterre Festival is stopping off in Namur for a screening of the film "The Tree of Authenticity." Directed by Sammy Baloji, this documentary presents a detailed analysis of Belgium's colonial history and the plundering and destruction of the Congo's natural resources, opening up a space f

RUN en Scène | Public radio recording by Radio Universitaire Namuroise

RUN is pleased to invite post-punk bands to record a new "RUN en Scène."

Exhibition - L'Archipel et le Plat Pays. Pages from the shared history of Belgium and the Philippines (16th-20th centuries)

The exhibition aims to contextualize and highlight particular events in the shared history of Belgium and the Philippines (zooming in on certain pages of history): the pre-19th-century period when Belgium and the Philippines were under the same (Spanish) crown; Leopold I and Leopold II's plans fo

Conference - The elimination of unemployment benefits: What are the impacts and what recourse is available?

Conference organized by the Namur Lawyers Association.

UTAN Conference | Poetry recital by Jean Loubry's students

The UTAN conferences are followed by a reception to continue the meeting.

Study Day - Tourism in the face of climate change: between risks and opportunities

As part of the vulnerability assessment to strengthen Wallonia's resilience to climate change, carried out by a consortium led by ICEDD (Institut de Conseil et d'Etudes en Développement Durable) on behalf of AWAC and as part of the Wallonia Recovery Plan, NADI-CeRCLe is organizing a study day.

REHNam Conference | "Truth" in the digital age: between combating information manipulation and protecting quality information?

Lecture given by Alexandra Michel, professor at the Faculty of Law and member of NADI (Namur Digital Institute) and CRIDS (Center for Research on Information, Law, and Society).

UTAN Conference | Myths and symbols: plants in the collective imagination

The UTAN conferences are followed by a reception to continue the meeting.

Fernand Peloux (CNRS/University of Toulouse)

Fernand Peloux, Eulalie, Juste and Rufine. Writing, rewriting and transmission of the Passions of saints from ancient Hispania.

Founding, building, praying. The origins of Cistercian abbeys in the Southern Netherlands (13th century)

Organized on the site of the former Notre-Dame du Vivier abbey, this colloquium aims to identify the reasons for the success of mulieres religiosae before 1250, the concrete circumstances in which foundations and affiliations took place, and the ways in which communities were institution

Hollywood vs Trump 2.0: The empire strikes back?

Conference by Dork Zabunyan (Université Paris VIII), organized by the Arcadie Center of the ESPHIN Institute and the Philosophy Department.