Confluence of Minds
In the confluence of minds
The waters of thought
Run clear, deep, and free
A farewell haiku by Rosalind Brown-Grant (Fellow 2018/19)
NIAS Fellows Association
The NIAS Fellows Association, NFA, is the alumni organisation of NIAS. Its aim is to promote the optimum functioning of NIAS for the benefit of past, present, and future Fellows at NIAS and to promote the bonds between all those who have been associated with NIAS.
NIAS Fellows Association
The Association was founded in 1977. It organises the annual NFA Day to which all members are invited. The highlight of the NFA Day is the Uhlenbeck Lecture named after the founder of NIAS, Professor E.M. Uhlenbeck (1913-2003). It is delivered by one of the former NIAS Fellows.
The NFA also set up the NIAS Alumni Stay in 2018. These alumni stays allow for NFA members to return to the institute for a 2- or 3-week period in summer.
Currently, the NFA is exploring alumni chapter meetings in different countries. In 2019, the first satellite meeting was organised in New York.
Membership
The NFA currently has 1250 members. Membership is open only to (former) NIAS Fellows and Staff. The life-time membership fee is currently €100 for Fellows from universities in the Netherlands, and €75 for Fellows from universities abroad. To join the NFA, please contact alumni@nias.knaw.nl.
The NFA Board
- Philip Spinhoven, Chair
- Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Secretary
- Emmanuel Berger, Treasurer
- Ana Maria Gomez Lopez, Member
- Theo Kuipers, Member
- Fabian Krämer, Member
- Jan Willem Duyvendak, Director of NIAS, Staff Representative
- Kahliya Ronde, Staff Representative
- Sabah Mofidi, affiliate member 2020/21
- Laura Bisaillon, affiliate member 2020/21
General Meetings
NFA General Meeting 2020
Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
NFA General Meeting 2019
NFA Day 2019 included the 36th Uhlenbeck Lecture by Peter Burke (Em. Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge and NIAS Fellow in 2005).
Agenda:
- Opening
- Minutes of the last General Meeting in 2018
- Report on the Golestan Foundation
- This year at NIAS. Report by Fenneke Wekker (Head of Academic Affairs).
- Election of the NFA Board
- Financial Report. Report of the Auditing Committee
- Appointment of a New Auditing Committee
- Change of NFA statutes and bylaws: voting
- Other business
- Closing
- Minutes of the NFA General Meeting 2019
- Financial Report of the NFA 2018
NFA General Meeting 2018
On 18 June 2018, the NFA held its first NFA Day after a hiatus of a year. Nadine Akkerman, Reader in Early Modern English Literature at Leiden University, and Fellow in 2015/16, delivered the 35th Uhlenbeck Lecture, titled “Introducing Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain.
Agenda
- Opening
- Minutes of the last General Meeting in 2016
- Report on the Golestan Foundation
- Update on Persian Rose Garden (by KNAW)
- This year at NIAS. Report by the Director. Including NIAS community online.
- Election of the NFA Board
- Financial Report. Report of the Auditing Committee
- Appointment of a New Auditing Committee
- Ideas for the future, and change of NFA statutes and bylaws
- Other business
- Closing
- Minutes of the General Meeting 18 June 2018
- Minutes 2016, financial reports 2016 and 2017 and current statutes