Throwback to the opening of the UCSIA House

On 14 November, we celebrated the opening of the new UCSIA House with you, a milestone we look back on with great pride.

The event was festively kicked off and interwoven with music by the Antwerp-based socio-artistic company Tutti Fratelli. This was followed by a warm welcome by deputy director Erik De Bom, who also presented the new corporate identity. President Bea Cantillon introduced the new UCSIA flagship project: ‘The Solidarity Academy’.

Religion as a language to express fear and frustration

Religion is back from never being gone in the political realm. That was the subject of the UCSIA Summer School’s public panel debate. The panel included international religion scholars and summer school tutors Jayeel Cornelio, Jennifer Eggert and Vlad Naumescu. Read all about it in the article (in Dutch) in Tertio!

Taye Birhanu Taressa is the 2024 Fund Bruyns Scholar

Taye Birhanu Taressa is a young researcher from Ethiopia. He is researching the role of indigenous Oromo environmental ethics in relation to sustainable development. Thanks to the Fund Bruyns, he is a research student at the Centre for European Philosophy at the University of Antwerp for the next few months.