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PhD Defense: Debby Esmeé de Vlugt

We are pleased to announce that RIAS PhD Candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt will defend her PhD dissertation on 8 May 2024. ... Read more

Roosevelt Lecture by Iwan Morgan – FDR: America’s Greatest President

On Thursday 11 April at 16:00 Iwan Morgan gives the Roosevelt Lecture – FDR: America’s Greatest President.  ... Read more

New Lecture in Seminar Series by Augusta Dell’Omo

On Monday 25 March 2024, Postdoctoral Fellow Augusta Dell’Omo will give her talk Human Rights for White Power. Dell’Omo will will explore the strategic repositioning of South ... Read more

Beyond Risk?

The seminar Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene on 31 May 2024 is organized by Leiden University in cooperation with the RIAS. ... Read more

Sixth Lecture in Seminar Series by Sarah Nelson

On Monday 26 February 2024, Assistant Professor Sarah Nelson will give her talk Networking Empire: Communications, Decolonization, and American Power in the 20th Century, Nelson will explo ... Read more

RIAS-UCR Sustainable Freedoms Essay Prize 2024

The RIAS is hosting the “Sustainable Freedoms Essay Prize” for UCR students.The prize goes to the best essay on an issue that connects environmental issues to human rights. ... Read more

Vacancy: PhD Position

RIAS Professor Dario Fazzi will be supervising a PhD project on Transatlantic Environmental History. The vacancy is offered by Leiden University’s Institute for History and the position is expect ... Read more

Call for Papers: Spring International PhD Seminar 2024

The next PhD seminar will take place in Middelburg on 26-28 June 2024. ... Read more

Fifth Lecture in Seminar Series by Sean H. Vanatta

On 29 January 2024, Lecturer Sean H. Vanatta will give his talk A Treacherous Ocean of Money: Finance and Failure across the Interwar Atlantic, 1920-1935, Vanatta will explore how small US ... Read more

Public Health and the American State

RIAS staff members Gaetano Di Tommaso and Dario Fazzi and former RIAS academic director Giles Scott-Smith have published a new edited volume, titled Public Health and the American State, w ... Read more

Online Book Talk with Dario Fazzi

RIAS Professor Dario Fazzi discussed his book Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement  in the online Greenhouse Environmental Human ... Read more

RIAS Gets Access to Digital National Security Archive

RIAS secures access to the renowned Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) to offer new research opportunities. ... Read more