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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Rosalind E. Krauss
At Columbia’s Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the project supports early-career scholars and artists researching the literary, historical, ethical, political, and/or juridical dimensions of government constraints on cultural production.
Francesco Ranci
Carlo Ginzburg is remembered in a discussion of narratives and ways of writing history through a comparison with a living Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Francesco Ranci touches on a wide range of subjects from Ginzburg’s research methods to today’s educational practices.
The project will address solid tumor resistance to immune checkpoint blockade by decoding metabolic checkpoints that parallel immune ones, thus aiming to restore effector function in exhausted T-cells through targeted metabolic reprogramming.
Paola Spinozzi
Starting from the premise that science and the humanities are both systems of knowledge and representations, Spinozzi acknowledges the role of world literature, ecological humanities, and decolonialism in creating ecological narratives and cross-fertilizations.
Bina Agarwal
Agarwal’s project has pursued four linked research trajectories on institutional innovation, gender, and the economy, supporting early-career scholars, building research capacity, and sharing findings with policymakers and civil society to improve well-being.
Salomon (2025 Balzan Prize) devised an experiment to place atomic clocks aboard the International Space Station and measure how time in orbit flows differently from time on Earth, testing Einstein’s prediction that our planet’s gravity slows the passage of time.
