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    Event 23 September 2025

    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.

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    News

    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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      Insights

      Intellectuals have confused their own worldview with the broader culture

    • ‘What world does AI create – and for whom?’
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      ‘What world does AI create – and for whom?’

    • What is recognition? 1
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      What is recognition?

    • Bullshit security?
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      Bullsh*t Security?

    • What is freedom without a place for yourself?
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      Moving Beyond Welfare Chauvinism

    • Listening as resistance
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      Listening as resistance

    • In Praise of Doing Nothing
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      In Praise of Doing Nothing by NIAS alum Costică Brădăţan

    • What is Academic Freedom? 1
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      Louisa Schneider on houselessness

    • NIAS-Wesseling series 1
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      The Danger of Conflation in Light of the Israel-Hamas War

    • Rethinking Human Relationships with the Sea
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      Rethinking Human Relationships with the Sea

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      "An impressive amount of new thinking and exploration goes into fellowship proposals"

    • ‘When after two months of reading I finally start to write, I realize there are few finer places to do so than at NIAS.’
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      ‘When I finally start to write, I realize there are few finer places to do so than at NIAS.’

    • Historians for the Future / Toekomsthistorici
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      'Onze namen opschrijven' Column by Dan Afrifa

    • Urban Farming 3
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      'Harvesting Care' column by Anna Kooi

    • Practices of Interdisciplinarity
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      Practices of Interdisciplinarity

    • Looking Back at the Academic Year 2021/22
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      Looking Back at the Academic Year 2021/22

    • Contested Objects and their Complex Social Meanings 1
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      Contested Objects: The Material Aspects of Colonial Narratives

    • Contested Objects and their Complex Social Meanings
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      Contested Objects and their Complex Social Meanings

    • Women’s Voices from the Mediterranean
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      Women’s Voices from the Mediterranean

    • A Forgotten Theory in Defense of Democracy 2
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      A Forgotten Theory in Defense of Democracy