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    NIAS welcomes fellows for 2025–2026

    The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) is proud to welcome its new cohort of fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Coming from more than 15 countries and spanning a wide spectrum of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, the new fellows bring with them a wealth of perspectives—as well as the complex political and social realities of the world they come from.

  • NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, with Claudine Gay
    Event 3 September 2025

    Academic Freedom Besieged: Whose Academy? (And Who Decides?)—NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, keynote by Claudine Gay

  • Photo of a surtout de table made by Cecilia Hendrikx. Photographed by Almicheal Fraay.
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    Cecilia Hendrikx: Investigating Architecture, History and Power

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    The ideological scriptwriters of Donald Trump's film are a motley anti-liberal bunch

  • Image representing the NIAS summer workshop: Revolution Theory, Social Movement Theory: Bringing Them Closer
    Event 18 August - 22 August 2025

    Revolution Theory, Social Movement Theory: Bringing Them Closer

  • Fleeing Ukrainian scientists on their country's future: ‘Values suddenly don't count’
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    Fleeing Ukrainian scientists on their country's future: ‘Values suddenly don't count’

  • Prof. Jan Willem Duyvendak
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    The Academy as a Pillar of Liberal Democracy - Jan Willem Duyvendak

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    NIAS podcast: Room to explore

Application deadlines

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  • Journalist-in-Residence Fellowship
    25 August 2025

    Journalist-in-Residence Fellowship

  • NIAS-Lorentz Theme-Group Fellowships
    1 September 2025

    NIAS-Lorentz Theme-Group Fellowships

  • Safe Haven Fellowship 1
    31 December 2025

    Safe Haven Fellowship

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    What is recognition?

  • ‘When after two months of reading I finally start to write, I realize there are few finer places to do so than at NIAS.’
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    ‘When I finally start to write, I realize there are few finer places to do so than at NIAS.’

  • NIAS and Equal Rights for all Scholars  
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    NIAS and Equal Rights for all Scholars  

  • NIAS-Wesseling series 1
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    The Danger of Conflation in Light of the Israel-Hamas War

  • Frank Dobbin 2
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    NIAS Fellow Frank Dobbin: ‘Companies adhering too closely to Trump, will become less competitive.'

  • NIAS Fellows Community Stands up for Science
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    NIAS Fellows Community Stands up for Science

  • Toekomsthistorici 3
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    What can go wrong if politics starts acting as the boss of other pillars of democracy.

  • David Van Reybrouck appointed Philosopher Laureate of The Netherlands
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    David Van Reybrouck appointed Philosopher Laureate of The Netherlands

  • In Praise of Doing Nothing
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    In Praise of Doing Nothing by NIAS alum Costică Brădăţan

  • Freedom Lecture 1
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    Watch the Freedom Lecture by NIAS Safe Haven Fellow Amal Helles

Current fellows

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  • Portrait of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

    Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej

    Year Group 2025/26 Disciplines: Sociology
  • Portrait of Felicity Apaah, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge

    Apaah, Felicity

    Year Group 2025/26 Disciplines: Gender Studies, Religious studies and theology
  • Ahmed El Shamsy by John Zich

    El Shamsy, Ahmed

    Year Group 2025/26 Disciplines: History, Religious studies and theology
  • Ganga Rajinee Dissanayaka

    Dissanayaka, Ganga Rajinee

    Year Group 2025/26 Disciplines: Anthropology, Culture Analysis, History