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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.

    • Logo of NIAS podcast Room to Explore

      Transcript Room to explore, podcast 3: Why many diversity programs backfire

    • Explaining the capping of applications admitted to the 2025 NIAS Open Call for Fellowships

      NIAS 2025 Fellowship Applications: Cap Explained

    • Register for the NIAS Opening Academic Year 2024-2025

      Keynote Speech Michael Ignatieff Opening Academic Year 2024-2025

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      Donate

    • The Academy and the Rule of Law by Tamar de Waal

      The Academy and the Rule of Law by Tamar de Waal

    • NIAS Fellow Registration Form

      NIAS Fellow Registration Form - Guests of director

    • Henry Spiller, NIAS Fellows Association Summer Stay

      Stipends and Dutch University Grants

    • Railroad (B+W) by Jev55 CC BY-NC 2.0

      Travel Expenses

    • Support NIAS, support a NIAS fellow(ship)

      Support NIAS, support a NIAS fellow(ship)

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      Offices & Accommodation

    • Library

      NIAS Library

    • Set up your own NIAS fellowship

      Set up your own NIAS fellowship

    • Photo of a small statue of an owl in the NIAS library

      Mission

    • NFA Day 2016

      About the NIAS Fellows Association

    • Belonging and Mobility 2

      Conference Spheres

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      Apply for a Meertens-NIAS Fellowship

    • Giving: practical matters 2

      Giving: practical matters

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      Application form for a Meertens-NIAS Fellowship

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

      Application form for a NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship

    • NIAS Standing Statement

      NIAS Standing Statement