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Aafke Hulk new Rector of NIAS

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has appointed Professor Aafke Hulk as the new Rector of NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences). Aafke Hulk will take up her position on 1 August 2010.

Professor Aafke Hulk (1952) will begin her work as Rector of NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences) on 1 August 2010. She succeeds Professor Wim Blockmans in this position. Professor Hulk has chosen to work for NIAS because her new position will enable her to encourage interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences. She is also looking forward to collaborating with talented Dutch and foreign researchers who use the facilities available at NIAS.

Aafke Hulk is Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. In recent years, her research has focused on the linguistic aspects of early child multilingualism. She is also an administrator and holds positions on various boards. For example, she served a five-year term on the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); she is a member of the board of the National Network of Female Professors (LNVH); and she was the dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Hulk will continue to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam.

EURIAS Fellowships

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 33 fellowships for the 2011/2012 academic year. It proposes 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Programme builds on the strong reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study for promoting the concentrated, self-directed work of excellent researchers within the stimulating environment of a multidisciplinary and international group of fellows

NIAS is one of the participating Institutes. More info

Upcoming application deadlines:

1 July 2010	for regular NIAS Fellowships for Dutch scholars 2011/12
10 September 2010	for EURIAS Fellowships for 2011/12
1 November 2009	for VNC Fellowships for 2010/11 -CLOSED-
1 March 2010	for regular NIAS Fellowships for non-Dutch scholars 2011/12 -CLOSED-
1 March 2010	for Lorentz Fellowships 2011/12 -CLOSED-
1 March 2010	for Golestan Fellowship 2011/12 -CLOSED-
1 May 2010	for NIAS Visiting Grants 2011/12 -CLOSED-

"A year to think" - that is how a Swiss researcher once described his stay at NIAS. And that is precisely what the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar offers to approximately fifty carefully selected fellows each year. Scholars who have already made a significant contribution to their field are given the opportunity to devote themselves exclusively to their own academic projects for a ten-month period, individually or as part of a research theme group. NIAS grants a total of forty full-time fellowships each year.

Its tranquil surroundings on the outskirts of Wassenaar help to make NIAS a perfect place for concentration and quiet study. The Institute is ideally situated in a very attractive wooded residential area only three kilometres from the North Sea beaches, yet with easy access to all universities, libraries and cultural venues. Wassenaar itself can be easily reached. This pleasant town of 26,000 inhabitants lies nine kilometres south of the historic university town of Leiden, twelve kilometres north of The Hague, the Netherlands' seat of government and half an hour's drive from Schiphol, Amsterdam's international airport.

NIAS is a member of SIAS, an informal consortium of Some Institutes for Advanced Study. The other participating institutes are:

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS), Palo Alto, California, USA;
Collegium Budapest - Institute for Advanced Study (CB), Budapest, Hungary;
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (IAS Princeton), New Jersey, USA;
National Humanities Center (NHC), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA;
Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, Massachusettes, USA;
Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, New York, USA;
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS),Uppsala, Sweden;
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study (WIKO), Berlin, Germany.
Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS)

This informal network was set up with the help of the European Commission. Their principal aim is to articulate the role and the common interest of institutes for advanced study at the European level and to pursue a structured dialogue with the European Commission on themes of common interest and on possible forms of cooperation. The network organizes annual meetings between the directors of the institutes concerned.