Prof. Jan Paul Crielaard has been appointed director of the Netherlands Institute in Athens by the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam. He will take up his post on 1 March 2026, succeeding Prof. Ann Brysbaert, who is continuing her career in Belgium after almost four years as director of the NIA. Jan Paul […]
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We would like to announce that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for the international Roundtable “Resilience and Reconciliation: Democracy in Crisis and Repair across History” has been extended to 7 February 2026. The Roundtable is organized in cooperation with the Danish Institute at Athens, The Finnish Institute at Athens, The Norwegian Institute at […]
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In contemporary society the emergence of fake news is seen as an existential threat, an unprecedented attack on societal values. Democracies, with their emphasis on participation, openness, and free speech, seem particularly vulnerable to attacks by people who refuse to play by the rules. The prominence of fake news is regarded as a tell-tale sign […]
Our best wishes to all our friends and colleagues for a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful 2026! Please note that the NIA will be closed from 20 December – 7 January.
The recording of the book presentation of ‘Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era’ is now available on the YouTube-channel of our Institute. This event was organized in the framework of the NIA Library’s activities and it was a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Nordic Library at […]
We are happy to host and support the conference “Philosophy of Technology. A Chinese-Continental Perspective” that is organized by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Patras and will take place on 14 September at the NIA. Yuk Hui, Fabian Heubel, Kejun Xia and Susanna Lindberg will be discussing about Cosmotechnics, Planetary Technonature, Logos […]
We are pleased to announce the programme for the upcoming symposium ‘Records and Religious Knowledge in ancient Greece’, to be held at the Netherlands Institute in Athens on 11th of April 2024. The symposium aims to explore how epigraphic documents organised, displayed and disseminated religious knowledge in the ancient Greek world. In the famously oral […]
The Netherlands Institute at Athens is happy to share the recording of its Annual Open Meeting, which took place on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the premises of the Netherlands Institute at Athens. After the annual report by NIA-Director Prof. Dr. Ann Brysbaert “The Activities of the Netherlands Institute at Athens 2022” […]
It is with great pleasure that we share the announcement of the conference “HYDOR: Water Resources and Management in the Aegean Bronze Age”, the XXth international Aegean Conference, which will take place from 11-16 June at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Water is arguably the most important substance of human life. However, in […]