Event type: Opening Academic Year

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.

NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2024/2025

Academic Freedom: What's At Stake? (And Who Cares?) – with keynote by Michael Ignatieff

Academic Freedom(s)

On Wednesday 6 September 2023 NIAS celebrates the start of a new academic year. During the NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2023/24 we explore the nature, meaning and limits of academic freedom, together with invited speakers and the Institute’s newest year group.