On September 24th, the South and Southeast Asia track of Ba International Studies hosted a panel discussion on why the world is directing its attention to the Indo-Pacific. This area, which is of major strategic international importance, is becoming the focus of economic and political policy makers around the world. Especially, the region South and Southeast Asia is becoming crucial to what will happen to the Indo-Pacific in the years to come. Whatever the developments in the Indo-Pacific, they will affect the world at large. This panel discussion aimed to inform a public consisting of specialists, practitioners, and students on the different perspectives regarding this issue from practitioners from India, the Philippines, and the Netherlands.
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University lecturer in Management & Organisation Sarita Koendjbiharie is a welcome lecturer on The Hague campus, and not only because she takes a genuine interest in her students. In fact, Koendjbiharie brings her dog Coco to campus whenever she can.
Before the start of the second semester, first year students pick an area and a language to specialize in. In the second semester they will follow area courses for the area they pick and the language acquisition also starts then. In order to support students in making a decision the BA International Studies organizes an Area Fair on Friday, November 1, 2024 (13:00-16:00) at the Schouwburgstraat ground floor.
At the start of September, at the height of summer and outdoor living, the municipality of Amsterdam announced that they would start a campaign against private pots and plants on public pavement.* The argument for ‘Operation Plant Pot’ was that these pots block the access for mobility aid users and prams.
On Friday, 29 November at 16:00, Professor Sarah Wolff, will deliver her Inaugural Lecture in the historic Academy building in Leiden.
Students in the third year of the BA International Studies programme follow the Practicing International Studies (PRINS) consultancy course. They conduct a project put forward by real clients and then present them with their research results. PRINS is so successful that it has now been running for 10 years.
We are organising an alumni reunion taking place on Saturday, 10 August 2024 in The Hague for the graduation class of 2018* for the Bachelor in International Studies.
A couple of weeks ago, together with two colleagues, I acted as jury for a BASIS public speaking competition. There were four very engaged and brave public speakers. One of the speeches focused on the limits of language as a way of expression. There are so many human emotions that need to be expressed where words fall short. Humans have been struggling with these limitations for eons. One explanation for the emergence of music thousands of years ago is the idea of offering us alternative ways of expression.
Kenan Cruz Çilli (25) graduated from International Studies in 2019 and since then has continued to deepen his knowledge of the Middle East, and the wider world.
