2015-ongoing, Academic co-chair of the Research group Travail, entreprise, démocratie (Work, Business, Democracy) inside the CriDIS Center, IACCHOS Institute, UCLouvain. Co-chair: Dr. Julien Charles.
Monthly workshop with doctoral students and researchers from October to December, from February to May, annual day retreat in July
2015-2021, Academic coordinator of the Democracy, Cultures & Action Fund/Chaire Démocratie, Cultures & Engagement, established by the UCLouvain:
Chaire funded by the Louvain Foundation ($450.000 funding from the Legs Pierre De Merre), 4 academic co-chairs: Prof. Philippe Coppens, Isabelle Ferreras, Matthieu de Nanteuil & Marc Verdussen.
Academic Chair for the 3-day student training program Peacejam Program developed with Nobel Peace Laureates (Peacejam.org), sponsored by the 4 Belgian universities UCLouvain, ULBruxelles, KULeuven, VUBrussel:
- at ULBruxelles in October 2016 with the Dalaï Lama and Judy Williams,
- at UCLouvain in November 2017, with Shirin Ebadi,
- at KULeuven in March 2018, with Tawakkol Karman,
- at VUBrussel in March 2020, with Rigoberta Menchu
Seminars organized:
- October27, 2015: Inaugural session of the Fund « Démocratie, Cultures & Engagement » by Jean-Marc Ferry
- May 13, 2016: « Foi et Raison : la place de la religion dans l’espace public » with Jean-Marc Ferry (U. Nantes)
- June 3, 2016: Workshop on Constitutional Transitions/Les transitions constitutionnelles. Cases covered: South Africa, Tunisia, Burma
- October 27, 2016: « Pourquoi une Constitution dans un Etat de droit ? » with Xavier Philippe (U. Aix-en-Provence) and Dominique Rousseau (U. Paris-Sorbonne)
- March 27, 2017: “Law in Transitional Contexts: Violence and Non-Violence” with Boaventura De Sousa Santos (U. Coimbra/Madison-Wisconsin)
- May 12, 2017: « Violence et non-violence de l’économie » with Etienne Balibar (U. Paris-Nanterre, California-Irvine, Columbia)
- November 17, 2017: “Building Peace: University and Civil Society in the Service of a Culture of Peace?” with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate + Inauguration of the PeaceJam program hosted by ULB, UCLouvain, VUB, KULeuven
- December 20, 2017: « Walter Benjamin et la question de la violence » with Philippe Coppens
- May 18, 2018: « Benjamin et Weber face à la violence : complémentaires ou opposés ? » with Matthieu de Nanteuil
- June 21, 2018: « Walter Benjamin et le conflit armé colombien : questions et perspectives » with Leopoldo Múnera Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
- September 28, 2018: « Benjamin et la Théorie critique : quelle place, quelle contribution ? » with Louis Carré
- October, November, December: 3 1-day workshop on Transition and Reconstruction (manuscript workshop around forthcoming edited volume by the Democracy, Cultures & Action Fund)
2015-18, Faculty representative, Board of the CriDIS research centre, IACCHOS Institute, UCLouvain
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE.org):
From 2019 on, Ferreras has launched with Gerhard Schnyder, Imran Chowdhury, Anna Skarpelis a new initiative featuring 2 panels at the SASE annual meeting “Social Sciences for Real Life” with large attendance numbers (250 people). 2019: NYC, 2020: Amsterdam (switched online due to covid pandemic), 2021: online (due to covid pandemic).
From 2017 on, Isabelle Ferreras has co-organized with CRIMT fellow associates a new research network inside SASE: “Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment.” On average the network features 10 panels at each SASE annual conference. 2017: Lyon, 2018: Kyoto, 2019: NYC, 2020: Amsterdam (switched online), 2021: online.
In June 2012, she was elected to the SASE Executive Council for a 3-year term, then re-elected once. Serving on the Doctoral Awards Committee. She is serving now a SASE network organizer.
Isabelle Ferreras is an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). Between 2007 and 2013, Isabelle Ferreras was involved as a Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) network organizer for the network « Law and the Social Sciences », in collaboration with two Law professors, Katherine Stone (UCLA) and Alvaro Santos (Georgetown University). Conferences prepared: 2008 in San José, Costa Rica; 2009 in Paris, France; 2010 in Philadelphia, USA; 2011 in Madrid; 2012 in Boston; 2013 in Milano.
Isabelle Ferreras 