Conversations offering clarity, courage, and hope

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Watch a Candid Conversation with Former Harvard President Claudine Gay

Watch a Powerful Dialogue with Utrecht University Professor of Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns

Listen to the keynote speech by former Harvard president Claudine Gay at the NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025/2026. From Stakeholders to Shareholders: How Donor Power Threatens University Independence.

Listen to the panel with poet Maria Barnas, Professor of Administration of Justice and Legal Philosophy Jonathan Soeharno (VU) and editor-in-chief of Dutch daily newspaper Trouw Wendelmoet Boersema. Together they explore the respective missions and vulnerabilities of the three ‘verifying and authenticating institutions’ of liberal democracy (the academy, the judiciary and the press), what guardrails they need most, and how they might ally to get and keep those in place.