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Political Autocracy and Academic Freedom
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) is proud to announce a public lecture featuring Nobel laureate Paul Krugman – one of the world’s most renowned economists and the prolific author of influential publications on international trade and tariffs, industrial agglomeration and the new economic geography, and welfare distribution and the wellbeing society.
NIAS welcomes fellows for 2025–2026
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) is proud to welcome its new cohort of fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Coming from more than 15 countries and spanning a wide spectrum of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, the new fellows bring with them a wealth of perspectives—as well as the complex political and social realities of the world they come from.
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Workshop 26 November - 27 November 2025 -
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