Wednesday 23 of February the NESA Netherlands School of Anthropology) has been officially launched with the first Masterclass by Prof. Dr. Marja Spierenburg (Leiden University) and Dr. Anke Tonnaer (Radboud University). The NESA is a graduate program for PhD candidates of the five Dutch universities who work in the field of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

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The Netherland School of Anthropology is a joint initiative of the five Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology programmes in the Netherlands. After a successful research evaluation of all five programmes in 2020, the international committee which conducted the evaluation recommended the programmes to strengthen their cooperation, especially in support of the next generation of anthropologists.

The Netherlands School of Anthropology (NESA) is a graduate programme for PhD candidates who work in the field of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. This programme is a co-creation of the Anthropology faculties of 5 Dutch Faculties. NESA launched in January 2022 with a one-year programme consisting of a series of 5 masterclasses and an intensive methodology course (several days). This programme will be repeated in 2023. An extension of the core programme is envisioned after these two pilot year.

NESA offers a one-year teaching and training programme especially for upcoming and all first year PhD candidates, consisting of at least 5 masterclasses on current and trending theoretical debates in our discipline, an extensive methodology training and occasionally a cohort meeting off campus.