NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, with Claudine Gay
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NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, with Claudine Gay

Academic Freedom Besieged: Whose Academy? (And who decides?) – with a keynote by Claudine Gay, former President of Harvard University and Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies.

Book your spot at the NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, where we will highlight current challenges to academic freedom and the rule of law – and discuss how to brave them, as academic institutions and within the broader political and civil context.

Academic Freedom Besieged: Whose Academy? (And Who Decides?) – with a keynote by Claudine Gay, former President of Harvard University and Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies.

Please be sure to reserve your seat in advance, as space is limited. Note that the venue may change if additional capacity is needed, so we kindly ask you to stay tuned for updates.

Join Claudine Gay and other speakers, our 2025-2026 year group, and many others at the NIAS Opening of the Academic Year on 3 September 2025

Live event of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam

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