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  • Presenting the NIAS–NIOD–KITLV Fellows for 2025–2026: Panggah Ardiyansyah, Ganggah Dissanayaka and Leandro Matthews Cascon
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    Welcome Panggah Ardiyansyah, Ganga Dissanayaka and Leandro Matthews Cascon

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

  • NIAS Opening Academic Year 2025-26 with Claudine Gay
    Event 3 September 2025

    NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2025-2026, with Claudine Gay

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

    • ‘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

    • Ukraine War: Americans exhale with a renewed sense of purpose 1
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      Ukraine War: Americans exhale with a renewed sense of purpose