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  • NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, with Claudine Gay
    Event 3 September 2025

    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.

  • Photo of the NIAS staff in the garden of the Oost-Indisch Huis by Marieke de Bra
    News

    We are looking for a great Director!

    As of May 2026, Jan Willem Duyvendak will retire from his role as Director. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), of which NIAS is part, is now inviting applications to succeed him.

    • Gaza 2023/2024
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      Gaza 2023/2024

    • Van hard naar hart?
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      Van hard naar hart?

    • Making Truth in  Early Modern Catholicism
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      Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

    • Making Truth in  Early Modern Catholicism
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      Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

    • Making Truth in  Early Modern Catholicism
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      Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World
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      Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

    • Beyond the Pale
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      Beyond the Pale

    • Can adolescents be game changers for 21st-century societal challenges?
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      Can adolescents be game changers for 21st-century societal challenges?

    • Without it no music 4
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      Without it no music

    • Insomnia disorder subtypes derived from life history and traits of affect and personality
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      Insomnia disorder subtypes derived from life history and traits of affect and personality

    • Digitalisation in Local Housing Energy Systems
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      Digitalisation in Local Housing Energy Systems

    • The mineral deal and beyond
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      The mineral deal and beyond

    • Portals of Desire
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      News From Home: Portals of Desire

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      Fashion Matters

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      Nyderlandų valstybės valdymo specifika šiuolaikinės politinės situacijos kontekste