Academic Freedom Besieged: Whose Academy? (And Who Decides?)—NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, keynote by Claudine Gay
We are honoured to welcome Claudine Gay—Professor of Government, of African and of African-American Studies & former president of Harvard University—for her address to NIAS' Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026. With a welcome by NIAS director Jan Willem Duyvendak and contributions by Ingrid Robeyns, Maria Barnas, Jonathan Soeharno, Wendelmoet Boersema and (mod.) Marcia Luyten.
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.