The activities of the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIASt) focuses on the promotion of scientific and intellectual exchange as well as the creation of an international and interdisciplinary community consisting of researchers who come together up for the academic year in order to discuss and exchange views. Scholarship holders, exempted from teaching and administrative obligations, will be able to continue their own projects in an international scientific environment that stimulates debate and innovation.
Victor Rosenthal is a researcher fellow with the Institut Marcel Mauss of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He studied psychology, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv, and then psychology and neuropsychology in Paris (MA in experimental psychology and doctorate (PhD) in cognitive psychology), where he also completed his habilitation.
I took my BA, MA and Ph.D. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and I also held a research fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research from 1974-6. My thesis was on Avitus of Vienne: Avitus was a bishop and writer of importance in the late fifth and early sixth century, and he has left us with an important dossier of letters and poems which are central to an understanding of the culture of the post Roman West from 470-530.
