News

Seminar - Creative Writing
On Thursday, 24 November 2011, Christiaan Weijts, Writer-in-Residence 2011/12, will lead an interactive seminar about ideas and experiences in dealing with writing.

Seminar - The EU Crisis, an Anthropologist and Macro View
On 17 November 2011 Marga Peeters and Erik Bähre, NIAS Fellows 2010/11, will hold a seminar in which they will talk about the current crisis in the European Union.

Seminar - Brain Mechanisms
On 27 October 2011, Dick Jennings and Michael Potegal will hold a seminar in which they will give an overview of Brain Mechanisms of Aggression and Emotion.

Ajobami Ojebode - African going Dutch
Starting this month, Ayobami Ojebode, NIAS fellow 2011/12, will post a weekly blog on the website of the RNW, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, called 'Africans going Dutch'.

HUGO Fellow Baragwanath President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
HUGO Fellow Sir David Baragwanath has been elected President of the Tribunal and Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber.

Book Presentation - Bulgarian Scholars at NIAS
On 3 October a meeting took place between 13 Bulgarian Scholars, the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Bulgaria and Aafke Hulk, Rector NIAS.

Dutch Network of Women Professors honours Beatrice de Graaf
Beatrice de Graaf, NIAS fellow 2010/11, will receive the LNVH Anniversary Prize from the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).

Maria Koinova, NIAS Fellow 2011/12, recipient of a ERC Starting Grant
Maria Koinova, who is a member of the NIAS research theme group “The Real and the Imagined in the Contemporary Balkans” was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council in September 2011

Aafke Hulk, Rector NIAS, will hold a lecture at Institute of Balkan Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria
Aafke Hulk is visiting Bulgaria next week to hold a Q&A session with Bulgarian scientists
