The Balzan Foundation collects scientific contributions, and dissertations from its prizewinners for periodic publications. The Balzan Papers journal has been digital since 2024, and here, some updates on the research projects of the Balzan prizewinners are also gathered.
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Rezek presents his research on the biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens in northwestern Africa from 130,000 to 10,000 years ago, as revealed by excavations in two cave sites in Rabat-Temara in Morocco, Dar Es-Soltan 2 and Contrabandiers Cave.
Ceka explains why researchers should be concerned with matters outside their immediate field of interest, and why the IinteR-La+B provides an important opportunity for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue.
Robert O. Keohane
Keohane reflects on major aspects of his work, from world politics and economic interdependence, to international institutions and the complexity of international regimes, especially vis-à-vis climate change, the subject of his Balzan research project.
Senne Starckx
Eske Willerslev returns to his first research interest: ancient environmental DNA. In his words, «That’s where the new frontier lies in our field». The research not only tells something about the distant past, but it might also help steer our future.
Quentin Skinner
Skinner reflects on his intellectual path over the past twenty years, from theorizing a third concept of freedom, to reconstructing the concept of State and defending it in our normative discourse against oversimplifying theorizers of the «death of the State», to the crisis of contemporary democracies.
Marco Ferrari
Recent assumptions about the nature and physiology of plants could revolutionise our perspective on the world of plants. But orthodoxy is not easy to change. The first of this two-part article deals with plant neurobiology.
