This year we will celebrate the 40th year of SPIL as the study association for political scientists in Leiden (and The Hague)! This means that a committee has been installed to organizes all activities celebrating our eighth lustrum. The committee has been formed as follows:

• Josephine Bensdorp               Chair
• Abel van de Sluis                      Secretary
• Ingrid gehamer                        Treasurer                                                
• Annabel van Holst                                                                              
• Marjolein Nieuwenhuijsen                                                                      
• Nicola Otten