Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW)

Would you like some guidance on Your NIAS Fellowship Application? Are you new to international academia or lacking institutional support? If you're considering applying for a NIAS Fellowship through the open call, we are hosting two open office hours to assist you. Join our open office hours, where we’ll walk you through the application process and answer any questions you may have. 📅 Session Dates: Thursday, February 13 | 9.00h – 10.00h AM (CET) Wednesday, February 19 | 4.00h – 5.00h PM (CET) How to attend? https://lnkd.in/eVHWv7pr. For an overview of the fellowship calls that are currently open: https://lnkd.in/eeCqnb24

New materialism has become popular in many fields as a way to explore the role of non-human and more-than-human elements. It offers a fresh perspective on how different entities interact and influence social and environmental issues. This approach is changing how we think about global challenges, like climate change, by providing a more interconnected view of the actors and relationships involved. This project aims to examine the methodological changes that come with this new way of thinking. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/eN5-tiBV

Meet NIAS fellow Andrés Vélez-Posada. The building of the Spanish Empire in the Americas in the early modern age was a political and scientific project without precedent. The geographical and ecological conditions of Spanish America posed both challenges and opportunities. Andrés Vélez-Posada will focus on the tropical Andes of the New Kingdom of Granada (current Colombia and Venezuela territories). He will look at the exploitation of gold- and emerald mines in Antioquia and Muzo mountains between 1550 and 1700. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/e-XwYDtT

👩🏽💻 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 2025 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 👩🏾🔬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍! Today, the Call for the L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Fellowship Program 2025/2026 has officially opened. This prestigious program awards four fellowships worth around €30,000 each to outstanding women researchers in the Life Sciences and the STEM disciplines. The program is aimed at helping to counter the underrepresentation of women in senior academic roles, and is a collaborative effort between Nederlandse Unesco Commissie, L'Oréal, LNVH - Dutch Network of Women Professors, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) and NEMO. Why should you apply for this fellowship? 🏛️ As a fellow, you will get to spend a semester at NIAS in Amsterdam, free from administrative, clinical, or teaching duties, to focus fully on your research, scientific publications, and/or grant proposals. 🏠 If desired, accommodation is provided at NIAS. 🍀 Past fellows have credited their time at NIAS as a pivotal point in their careers, enabling significant professional growth and success. Past fellow Liesbeth van Vliet on her experience at NIAS: '𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴! 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 - 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘐𝘈𝘚 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘐 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺!' Eligibility criteria: * PhD holders with 3 to 10 years of postdoctoral experience (maternity/care leave or part-time will be taken into account!). * Women researchers in the Life Sciences or STEM disciplines with a contract at a Dutch university or research institute. Apply now! 👉 More information and application details (NL/ENG): https://lnkd.in/ednnT3xZ 📅 Deadline: the call is open from January 15, 2025 to February 28, 2025 All candidates will be notified of the jury’s decision by April 1, 2025. The Fellowships will be awarded during the biennial For Women in Science ceremony held at NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam, in the afternoon of April 17, 2025. Questions? Please feel free to reach out to me directly!

The escalating ecological crisis makes it imperative not only to picture positive alternatives to the status quo, but also to ponder the real possibility of systemic failure and collapse. Against the view of catastrophist thinking as inherently defeatist, Mathias Thaler’s interdisciplinary project examines the potential of various depictions and narrations of climate disaster across different art forms to beneficially inform political responses to anthropogenic climate change. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/eAmCPycv

Read Sezen Moeliker's insightful interview in NRC with our NIAS Fellow and Harvard professor Frank Dobbin on how Trump's decrees to abolish DEI policy in the US will work out. https://lnkd.in/etuRHmhf

Meet fellow Tabona Shoko! Climate change is becoming one of the biggest challenges for humanity. While scientists and humanities scholars have studied this issue, there has been little focus on African religions and their role in climate change, particularly among the 9 million Shona people in Zimbabwe. In the context of SDG 13, the Sustainable Development Goal to mitigate and adapt to climate change, this gap requires urgent attention. Inspired by Tarusarira (2017), Tabona Shoko looks into how the beliefs and practices of the indigenous Shona religion address climate change. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/eWwhHcF8

Apply for the Golestan Fellowship! The Golestan Fellowship is aimed at researchers from the medical or biological sciences, whose research interest overlaps with the humanities and social sciences. They should have a specialisation that makes it profitable to be in daily contact with scholars who carry out advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/gwM-y-2d

Kirwin Shaffer is researching the global history of the twentieth century, written through the eyes of anarchists in Latin America. The research explores how they described and analyzed global events from the lenses of the Global South and from the bottom-up. The research is very timely as we see new directions in Global History that challenge traditional top-down, Eurocentric and US perspectives on global history topics. As such, the project is less interested in how anarchists examined events and issues where they lived and operated and more interested in how they described the world as they looked out upon it. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/evZy_hrz

Apply now! The Willem F. Duisenberg Fellowship offers researchers in the field of applied monetary economics, macroeconomics, macroeconomic policy, public finance or public finance policy an opportunity to pursue their own research, to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to share their knowledge with society. Researchers carry out their research project as a member of the NIAS interdisciplinary academic community and have the opportunity to meet with Dutch academics, policy makers and representatives of financial institutions. Find more info here: https://lnkd.in/ep_gf244