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RIAS/UCR “Sustainable Freedoms” Essay Prize 2023

The RIAS is pleased to announce the winner of the third annual RIAS/UCR “Sustainable Freedoms Essay Prize” for the best essay on an issue that connects environmental issues to human rig ... Read more

New Book by Damian Pargas about Global Slavery

The RIAS Director Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel published the edited collection The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History  (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). This ope ... Read more

Virtual Exchange on Ecological Threats to Delta Regions

RIAS senior researcher Dario Fazzi and postdoctoral researcher Gaetano Di Tommaso set up a virtual collaboration with College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2022 thanks to a VIS grant. ... Read more

2023 Research Fellow at the RIAS

Mariia Kravchenko (Kyiv, Ukraine) is our Visiting Short-Term Fellow for June 2023 ... Read more

New Book Chapter by Our PhD Candidate, Marcella Schute

Our PhD candidate Marcella Schute has published a chapter in the book called Legacies of Slavery and Contemporary Resistance which came out with Cambridge Scholars Publishing on 9 ... Read more

Roosevelt Visiting Professor: Frank Schumacher

Dr. Frank Schumacher (University of Western Ontario) is the Spring Roosevelt Visiting Professor from mid-May until mid-June 2023. ... Read more

RIAS 2023 Policy Workshop on Environmental Education

On 5-6 June 2023, the RIAS will organize a policy workshop titled “An Environmental Education for an Environmental ... Read more

NASA Roundtable with Michael Boyden

On 12 May 2023, Michael Boyden, a professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen, will be holding the third NASA roundtable at the RIAS centering around his new book: Climate and the Pictu ... Read more

New Podcast Episode on the RIAS by the USSO (British Association for American Studies)

To kickstart their new podcast series, European Initiatives in American Studies,  members of the BAAS (British Association for American Studies) traveled to Middelburg to hear all about ou ... Read more

Former Board Member Arendo Joustra Appointed Royal Honor

The Board and staff members of the RIAS would like to congratulate Arendo Joustra on the esteemed royal honor as Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. ... Read more

Oud-voorzitter George van Heukelom overleden

Bestuur en medewerkers van het Roosevelt Institute for American Studies hebben met droefenis kennisgenomen van het overlijden van George van Heukelom. ... Read more

In the Shadows of Slavery

Wednesday 19th of April 2023 our director Damian Pargas will be giving a lecture at Leiden University on racial democracy and slavery. ... Read more