We caught wind that Dalila Cataldi won a prize in the Seoul International Meditation Festival Art Exhibition, which is really impressive! Besides being a prize winner, Dalila is also doing a lot of other very cool things: more reasons to catch up! Read about her adventures on exchange in Japan, her Internship at an art museum, her advice to current International Studies students and the selective joint Master Degree "Global Challenges and Sustainable Developments", which she will start later this year.

Do you already know what you want to do after you graduate? How do you find out what suits you? And how do you prepare for the labour market? For anyone who asks themselves these questions, the Career Service organises the Online Campus The Hague Career Event (12-16 April 2021). You can register below.

Good news for International Studies students! We have created a brand new International Studies minor equivalent as an additional option for your Elective Credits, developed by our own International Studies staff. We have also organised some other course options for your Elective Credits.

It is always fun to bring good news, and that is especially the case with this Newsletter.

Finding a job can be quite a challenge, especially when there is a global pandemic that seriously impacts the job market. Needless to say, this makes the process a bit more complicated. Therefore, the BAIS Alumni Association organized a panel discussion about finding a job during the COVID-19 pandemic. The six BA International Studies alumni that served as panelists provided the attendees with plenty of advice.

One of the great strengths of International Studies Alumni is their ability find and foster connections, creating understanding between people all over the world. The online story-platform and community “Correspondents of the World”, is an interesting initiative by International Studies Alumni which embodies these qualities exactly. The platform aims to engage readers with themes like gender, migration, liberation, corona and the environment through the power of personal stories. You can get involved! We spoke to two founders of the Platform & International Studies Alumni, Joost Backer (25) and Mira Kinn (28), who were excited to tell us more.

In this article we are catching up with alumna Martina Carlucci. She graduated International Studies in 2017 and now works at the prestigious international affairs Think Tank Chatham House in London. How did she get there? And what did she wish she would have known while being a student of International Studies? We asked her to describe her journey so far.

We have created a new online tool to help you work out your future plans, and you can register for the International Studies study information course on Brightspace now!

This semester, you will notice some new faces in our tutor team. Amongst them are Sara Bolghiran (politics) and Emma Lynn Dadap-Cantal (PRINS), who have taken the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves in this article. Curious to get to know the person behind the face? Read on!

This question was asked by Simon Anholt in an interview with Times Higher Education in January 2021. Simon who? Maybe not a household name, but Anholt is something of a ‘celeb’ within the broad field that stretches from corporate PR and marketing to inter-state public diplomacy and nation branding. More a policy advisor than an academic, and always operating on that interesting borderline between profound foresight and superficial entertainment, he’s been something of an intellectual shape-shifter for more than two decades. So what does he mean here?