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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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Symposium 23 April - 24 April 2026 -
NewsCAT-Group “How to Research Corruption?” to Visit NIAS
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Workshop 26 November - 27 November 2025EventCode as Critique
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NewsAn Afternoon with Paul Krugman
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NewsThe first 200 Dutch people on Manhattan were beggars in a poor mud puddle
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NewsSpeaking to the World: A United Nations Address from the Korte Spinhuissteeg
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NewsA counterintuitive and evidence-based perspective on polarisation
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Book presentation 4 November 2025EventBook presentation 'Picturing Aura'
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NewsFrom Stakeholders to Shareholders: How Donor Power Threatens University Independence
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NewsDon't turn activists into criminals."
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NewsNIAS welcomes fellows for 2025–2026
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InsightsIntellectuals have confused their own worldview with the broader culture
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NewsReligion, Populism, and the Fragmentation of the Sacred
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NewsCecilia Hendrikx: Investigating Architecture, History and Power
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NewsWe are looking for a great Director!
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NewsThe ideological scriptwriters of Donald Trump's film are a motley anti-liberal bunch
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NewsFor Women in Science Fellowships Awarded
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Insights‘What world does AI create – and for whom?’
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NewsDavid Van Reybrouck appointed Philosopher Laureate of The Netherlands
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NewsWhat can go wrong if politics starts acting as the boss of other pillars of democracy.