These seminars will look at how today's institutional, economic, environmental and migratory tensions are transforming and challenging the way our democratic regimes operate.

Designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange, they will focus on advanced methodological approaches, particularly in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), video and image analysis, and multimodal analysis.

Young researchers

It gives doctoral students who are members of the Institute the opportunity to present their research in a caring, interdisciplinary setting.

• October 23, 2025: Emma Bourcelet (Law) in collaboration with ELSA Namur - Online sexual exploitation: balancing child protection and user privacy
• November 20, 2025: to be confirmed
• April 14, 2026: Louise Salladin (Sociology) - to be confirmed
• May 12, 2026: Nathalie Vanaubel (Political Science) - to be confirmed

Midis de la politique

• October 23, 2025: André Sapir - L'impact économique pour l'Europe des changements géopolitiques à l'échelle mondiale
• December 4, 2025: Jérémy Dodeigne - The rise of political polarization and violence in democratic countries
• December 11, 2025: Boris Najman - The positioning of European countries vis-à-vis the war in Ukraine

Ages

They will question how age articulates with other criteria of discrimination in our current societies, giving rise to a panoply of configurations, experiences and lived experiences at different stages of the life course. Organized on a monthly basis and primarily aimed at sociology researchers, the seminars are regularly open to other members of the Institute. This year, these seminars will be coordinated by Romane Lecharlier (sociology) and Louise Salladin (sociology).

• October 23, 2025: Julie Aglave (Assistant and PhD student UCLouvain) - Reborn professionally: characterizing the multidimensional process underlying a mid-career professional bifurcation