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NIAS Opening Academisch Jaar 2021-2022

Het NIAS-KNAW opent het academisch jaar met een programma waarin het thema '50 jaar academische vrijheid' centraal staat. Met bijdragen van onder meer directeur Jan Willem Duyvendak, directeur van het Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University Nadia Al-Bagdadi, directeur van het Institute for Advanced Study Robbert Dijkgraaf, algemeen directeur KNAW Wilma de Koning en president KNAW Ineke Sluiter.

In deze collectie vindt u de speeches die werden gegeven tijdens de opening. Klik op 'meer informatie' voor het programmaoverzicht en de livestream van de opening.

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50 Years of Academic Freedom

During this special anniversary edition, we celebrate that for the past fifty years, scholars, journalists and artists at NIAS have been able to pursue curiosity-driven research. We also celebrate the importance of places like ours which safeguard academic freedom and the individuals behind institutions who make this possible.

Jan Willem Duyvendak will give his opening speech on NIAS celebrating fifty years of academic freedom and on maintaining that freedom to nourish innovation in science.

Guest speakers, Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University and Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study will reflect on safeguarding academic freedom from global perspectives.

There will be spoken word by alumna Hagar Peters, Writer-in-Residence 2019/20, and presentations by current fellows,  Rahul Rao, Stella Nyanzi, Lukas Verburgt, Sarah de Lange and Ghazwan Yaghi.

Preliminary Programme

15:00 – 15:05 Welcoming words by Fenneke Wekker, Head of Academic Affairs
15:05 – 15:15 50 Years of Academic Freedom, opening speech by Jan Willem Duyvendak, NIAS Director
15:15 – 15:20 Video message by Ineke Sluiter, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
15:20 – 15:30 "Scholars at Risk: the Institute for Advanced Study and Academic Freedom" by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA.
15:30 – 15:40 “Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?” by Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Hungary, and former President (2018-2021) of the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study
15:40 – 15:45 Q&A with Robbert Dijkgraaf & Nadia Al-Bagdadi
15:45 – 15:55 Spoken word by Hagar Peeters, writer, poet and NIAS alumna
15:55 – 16.15 Presentations by fellows Rahul Rao, Stella Nyanzi, Lukas Verburgt, Sarah de Lange and Ghazwan Yaghi
16:15 – 16:20 Wilma de Koning, Director General of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
16:20 – 16:30 Closing words by Fenneke Wekker, Head of Academic Affairs
16.30- 17.30 Networking drinks

 

NIAS Opening of the Academic Year 2021/22

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Image credits

Header image: Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen

Icon image: Flickr - KNAW

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