28 August 2024
The Balzan Prizes: Science and Knowledge to Understand and Confront the Challenges of Our Times
BALZAN PRESS KIT SEPTEMBER 2024 (Download 4 docx)
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31 July 2024
2024 Balzan Prizewinners Announcement
In Milan on 9 September 2024, at 6 pm (CEST/UTC +2): the event will be live-streamed on www.balzan.org
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19 July 2024
2024 Balzan Prizes: the Subject Descriptions
Restorative Justice; History of Modern and Contemporary Science; Biological Mechanisms of Ageing; Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications (Download Pdf)
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6 May 2024
Maria Cristina Messa is the New President of the Balzan Foundation “Prize”
She succeeds Alberto Quadrio Curzio
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29 January 2024
Appointments in the International Balzan Foundation
New Chairman and Members in the General Prize Committee
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4 December 2023
Annual Balzan Lecture 2023 : Alessandra Buonanno in Milan
“Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: exploring the Dark Universe” – Monday 18 December at the Milan Planetarium
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11 September 2023
The 2023 Balzan Prizewinners
David Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Eske Willerslev, Heino Falcke, Fondazione Francesca Rava [+ Press Release with Motivations – pdf]
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20 March 2023
2023 Balzan Prize: Nominations and Subjects
2023 SUBJECT DESCRIPTIONS (Download pdf)
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25 November 2022
2022 Balzan Prizes presented in Rome
750,000 Swiss Francs (765,000 EUR, 810,000 USD, 666,000 GBP) for each of the four awards.The winners must allocate half of the amount to research projects.
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13 September 2022
IinteR-La+B Seminar 2022: Summary
The 11th International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory (InteR-La+B) on ENVIRONMENT was held in Università Cattolica on 13 September 2022.
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12 September 2022
The 2022 Balzan Prizewinners
Martha C. Nussbaum, Philip Bohlman, Robert Langer, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes Oerlemans
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1 July 2022
The 2021 Balzan Prizes Awarded in Bern
750,000 Swiss Francs for each of the four subjects. The Prizewinners must allocate half of the amount to research projects. [+ Booklet]
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2 February 2022
The 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Giorgio and Marilyn Buccellati join Saul Friedlander, Jeffrey Gordon and Alessandra Buonanno/Thibault Damour
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18 November 2021
2020 Balzan Prizes presented in Rome
The Balzan Prizes 2020 were presented today in Rome by the President of the Italian Republic. During the ceremony, which took place at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the prizes were presented to
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18 November 2021
The 2020 Balzan Prizes Presented in Rome
Press release 18/11/2021
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7 October 2021
Balzan mourns the passing of Salvatore Veca
It is with great sorrow that the International Balzan Foundation announces the death of Salvatore Veca, Member of the Board of the “Prize” Foundation and editor of the series Balzan Papers.
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22 September 2021
Annual Balzan Lecture: Jacques Aumont in Locarno
Jacques Aumont, 2019 Balzan Prize for Film Studies, gave the Annual Balzan Lecture 2021 entitled Le détail révélateur at the PalaCinema in Locarno on 29 September 2021.
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6 October 2020
Balzan Prizewinner Reinhard Genzel wins the Nobel Prize
Reinhard Genzel,2003 Balzan Prizewinner for Infrared Astronomy, is one of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Roger Penrose and Andrea Ghez).
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12 September 2020
Balzan Prizes 2021: the President’s speech
Opening Speech of the President of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” Alberto Quadrio Curzio
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5 May 2020
Alberto Quadrio Curzio President of the Balzan Foundation “Prize”
On May 4, 2020, Alberto Quadrio-Curzio was elected President of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” in Milan.
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20 March 2020
The Balzan Foundation mourns the passing of Enrico Decleva
On behalf of the Boards of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” in Milan and “Fund” in Zurich, the Vice President of the “Prize” Foundation Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio expressed his great regret in announcing the passing of President Professor Enrico Decleva, in office since 2013.
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27 February 2020
Interviews with 2017 Prizewinners from the German Press
La Stampa – TuttoscienzeIl Sole 24 Ore – DomenicaCorriere del TicinoSwissinfo
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1 February 2020
Manuel Castells Minister of Universities of the Spanish Government
Manuel Castells, 2013 Balzan Prize for Sociology, has been appointed Minister of Universities by the Spanish government, and was sworn in by the King of Spain on 13 January 2020.
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15 November 2019
Balzan Prizes 2019 awarded in Bern
750,000 Swiss Francs (approx. €680 000, $760 000, GBP 620 000) for each of the four subjects.Prizewinners must allocate half of the amount to research projects
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8 October 2019
Balzan Prizewinner Michel Mayor wins the Nobel Prize
Michel Mayor, 2000 Balzan Prizewinner for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics, is one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Didier Queloz and James Peebles).
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2 September 2019
Balzan goes social
The Balzan Prize and the Foundation are now on Twitter (@BalzanPrize) and on LinkedIn (Balzan Foundation).
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23 November 2018
Balzan Prizes 2018 presented in Rome
The Balzan Prizes 2018 were presented today by the President of the Italian Republic, during the ceremony, which took place at the Auditorium of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
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14 November 2018
The Balzan Papers presented in Rome
On 22 November in Rome the first issue of the Balzan Papers, edited by Salvatore Veca, was presented.
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27 February 2018
Interviews with 2019 Balzan Prizewinners from the European Press
Il Messaggero, La Stampa, Corriere del Ticino, StGaller Tagblatt, Hannoversche Allgemeine, Der Standard, Siences et Avenir, El Mundo
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18 January 2018
Luciano Maiani Chairman of the General Prize Committee
LUCIANO MAIANI is the new Chairman of the Balzan General Prize CommitteeDONATELLA DELLA PORTA and SALWA EL-SHAWAN CASTELO-BRANCO have been nominated as Members
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19 November 2017
The “New Oppenheim” by R. Higgins: launch in New York
Tuesday, 24 October 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM“Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations” with author Rosalyn HigginsUNITED NATIONS BOOKSHOP New York – USA
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17 November 2017
The 2017 Balzan Prizes presented in Berne
During the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, this year’s Balzan Prizes were presented
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12 September 2017
The 2017 Balzan Prizewinners
The names of the 2017 Balzan Prizewinners were disclosed today in a public announcement
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3 July 2017
New Members on the Balzan General Prize Committee
Børge Diderichsen and Nathalie Heinich have been appointed to the General Prize Committee of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize”. They replace Marc Van Montagu and Dominique Schnapper.
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26 May 2017
A global Project for the Music: Interview with Reinhard Strohm
Walter Rauhe met with Reinhard Strohm for a dialogue on some of the many subjects that emerged from his important and complex Research Project..
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17 May 2017
Appointments to the Balzan Foundation “Fund” Board
Gisèle Girgis-Musy named as Chairman of the Balzan “Fund” Board. André Bandi appointed as a new member of the Board.
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20 March 2017
The Syriac World Rediscovered: an Interview
Fruit of meticulous interdisciplinary work, Syriaca.org is the cornerstone upon which Peter Brown’s Balzan research project entitled Figures in Landscape has been built. Peter Brown, Balzan Prize for Ancient History, and David Michelson, project leader, illustrate this innovative form of historical-cultural corpus in an interview by Susannah Gold.
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10 January 2017
Incontro sull’Utopia all’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Parigi
The event followed up on the recent publication of the “Dictionnaire critique de l’utopie au temps des Lumières”, in the frame of Bronislaw Baczko’s Balzan Research Project.
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8 July 2016
Interview: a “new Oppenheim” for Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins and the young collaborators working under her Balzan research project are on the final stretch of the enormous work of editing a “new Oppenheim”. In an interview by Susannah Gold, Dame Rosalyn explained the phases of conceiving and implementing work on the new volume of one of the most fundamental treatises on law of […]
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19 May 2016
Selection of articles Balzan Prizes 2015
Interviews with the four 2015 Balzan Prizewinners in European newspapers: Badische Zeitung (Germany), Corriere del Ticino (Switzerland), Delo (Slovenia), Der Standard (Austria,) De Standaard (Belgium), El Mundo (Spain)
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30 October 2013
The New York Review of Books publishes Ronald Dworkin
The New York Review of Books (50th Anniversary special issue) has published Ronald Dworkin’s Balzan discourse
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11 September 2013
TGR Lombardia – Rai 3: Annuncio dei Premi Balzan 2013 ((Italian)
Video del TGR Lombardia
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2 December 2012
RAI TG Leonardo, 20 novembre 2012
Intervista di Girolamo Mangano, in occasione del Forum Interdisciplinare dei Premiati Balzan 2012 all’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Roma, 15 novembre 2012)
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6 September 2011
RAI TG Leonardo, 16 November 2012: Interview with Kurt LAMBECK (Ita)
Interview by Girolamo Mangano at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, on the occasion of the Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum 2012 (15 November 2012)
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