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Explore the stories behind our fellows’ ground-breaking research, the work in progress and the coming events at NIAS.
NIAS welcomes fellows for 2026–2027
Coming from across the world and working across disciplines, the new fellows bring a wide range of expertise, experience and standpoints. Over the coming year, scholars, writers, journalists and artists will have the time and space to pursue questions that matter to them – independently and in conversation with each other
Academic Freedom and Illiberal Democracy
We are honoured to welcome you to the Opening of the Academic Year 2026-2027 of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study with a keynote speech by the Lebanese sociologist Prof. Sari Hanafi.
NIAS podcast Room to explore... living in a more than human world
How should political theory respond to a planet in crisis? And what might whales have to do with it? In the latest episode of the NIAS podcast, two NIAS fellows bring together their distinct research trajectories for a conversation that is as intellectually rigorous as it is personally candid.
NIAS supports call on minister to evacuate academics and students from Gaza
NIAS, together with other Dutch knowledge institutions, has sent an open letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Tom Berendsen. In the letter, the administrators call on the ministry to put forward academics and students from Gaza who wish to study or work in the Netherlands for evacuation.
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InsightsForgotten Places, Forgotten People
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InsightsThe Legitimacy of the Welfare State
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InsightsCommunity as ideal and practice
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