Week without courses or exams
14-18 September 2026
Five reasons to consider participation seriously
USI Lunch Seminar by visiting scholar Byeongsun Ahn (University of Vienna)
WTF? Anti-Gender Mobilization and Trans Lives in an "LGTBQ-friendly" Context
PhD defence Rylan Verlooy (Department of Communication Studies)
Socio-demographic patterns of instability: Essays on earnings and income volatility in Belgium
PhD defence Maisarah Wizan (Department of Sociology)
Between caring and counting: Maternal and newborn health data from Tanzanian maternity wards to global indicators
PhD defence Jil Molenaar - Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences & ITM
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico: Institutional Voices, Corporate Narratives, and Public Perceptions
Public PhD defence Jorge León Y Vélez Avelar (Department of Management)
Diagnostics need systems: Implementation and sustainability of sample-to-result platforms and conventional PCR in molecular diagnostics for low-resource settings
PhD defence Anne Hauner - Department of Biomedical Sciences
Earli SIG 14 Learning and Professional Development 2026 Conference
Conference
Interdisciplinarity in Climate Research: A Challenge for ECRs?
A BioYUFE - SCAIRY webinar: Can research really cross disciplines, or does it just fall through the cracks between them?
Cervical Dystonia: assessment and rehabilitation
PhD defence Shimelis Girma Kassaye - Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Emergent phenomena in strained graphene nanostructures
PhD defence Robin Smeyers - Department of Physics
Experiencing performance: How engagement with public sector performance affects citizens’ trust in government and voice behaviour
PhD defence Erasmus Häggblom (Department of Political Science)
Welcome Day @ Faculty of Arts
We welcome all new degree students
What is Learning Analytics in teaching?
A YUFE workshop for Academic Teaching Staff
Seminar - New Union Customs Code unpacked
Antwerp Tax Academy
Understanding Political Communication in a Hybrid Media System: Media Practices of the Radical Right in Flanders
PhD defence Priscilla Hau (department of Communication Studies)
Exterior differential systems on Lie algebroids and their applications
PhD defence Kenzo Yasaka - Department of Mathematics
A whisper in the wind or a lighthouse? Knowledge exchange practices in crisis governance
PhD defence Chiara Russo (Department of Political Science)
Start of academic year
21 September 2026
Etiology and histopathology of Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities
PhD defence Gerd Schreurs - Department of Biomedical Sciences
Passive Sensing Crowds Using Personal Communication Technologies
Doctoral defence of Dennis Joosens - Faculty of Applied Engineering
The Paradox of Insecurity: Job Threats, Contextual Vulnerability, and Employee Behavior in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Public PhD defence Muna Khoury (Department of Management)
The role of epitope-specific antibodies and Fc effector functions in determining disease severity during secondary dengue virus infection
PhD defence Sokchea Lay - Department of Biomedical Sciences
Reframing Observations: Taking up the Indigenous lens
Conference
The COCCOS study: healthcare transition in adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions
Joint PhD defence Natwarin Janssens - Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences & UGhent