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Explore the stories behind our fellows’ ground-breaking research, the work in progress and the coming events at NIAS.

  • 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.

    • NIAS Individual Fellowship
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      NIAS Fellowship

    • Theme-group Fellowships
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      NIAS Theme Group Fellowships

    • NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the context of (de)colonisation 1
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      NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation

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      Meertens-NIAS Fellowship

    • Urban Citizen Fellowship 2
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      Urban Citizen Fellowship

    • Safe Haven Fellowship 1
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      Safe Haven Fellowship

    • L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (FWiS)
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      L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (FWiS)

    • Distinguished NIAS Lorentz Fellowship 1
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      Distinguished NIAS Lorentz Fellowship

    • NIAS-Lorentz Theme-Group Fellowships
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      NIAS-Lorentz Theme-Group Fellowships

    • Dutch Foundation for Literature 1
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      Writer-in-Residence Fellowship

    • Instituut Gak Fellowship 1
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      Instituut Gak Fellowship

    • Iso Lomso Fellowship
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      Iso Lomso Fellowship

    • Artist-in-Residence Fellowship 1
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      Artist-in-Residence Fellowship

    • Constructive Advanced Thinking Theme Group
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      Constructive Advanced Thinking Theme Group

    • Lucie Nezri by Jente Waerzeggers
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      Institut français Nouveau Grand Tour

    • Golestan Fellowship
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      Golestan Fellowship

    • Auto Draft 1
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      Henry G. Schermers Fellowship

    • Scholars at Risk Fellowship (SAR)
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      Scholars at Risk Fellowship (SAR)

    • NSvP Fellowship
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      NSvP Fellowship

    • KB Fellowship
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      KB Fellowship