/en en Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:26:42 +0200 Tue, 13 May 25 11:33:00 +0200 /en/news/elise-van-nederveen-meerkerk-new-royal-netherlands-academy-of-arts-and-sciences-member Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk is Professor of History of Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective and Head of the Economic and Social History group. 149395 Tue, 13 May 2025 11:33:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/call-for-papers-migration-and-societal-change-conference-june-2025 The Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� focus area Migration and Societal Change invites you to submit a proposal for a panel or an individual paper for our conference in June 2025. 143238 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:44:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/overall-wellbeing-increases-but-regional-disparities-have-grown Utrecht researchers developed a broader method to measure welfare: the Better Well-being Index (BWI). This year, broad welfare in the Netherlands increased. 141699 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/waarom-het-aandeel-vrouwelijke-ondernemers-maar-langzaam-groeit-nl Dr Selin Dilli contributed to a newly published rapport by ABN AMRO Bank on the slow growth of female entrepreneurship in the Netherlands. 141531 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:57:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/30-million-euros-for-social-cohesion-research Naomi Ellemers: 'With this money, we can spend the next 10 years researching how to strengthen social connections in society without undermining other connections.' 140798 Fri, 24 May 2024 07:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/in-the-media/we-want-investors-to-focus-on-system-change-not-system-optimisation Johan Schot talks about the Deep Transitions Lab. In the lab, impact investing and the question of how investing could tackle challenges such as climate change is studied. 136885 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:39:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/robert-vonk-appointed-as-professor-by-special-appointment-for-history-of-social-security “The chair focuses on the development of social security in the Netherlands in an international perspective”, Vonk says. 134935 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:19:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publicatie/capital-shortage-credit-and-indian-economic-development-1920-1960 Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant’s ability to invest in land. 133636 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:48:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/new-focused-on-the-future-podcast-episode-government In this podcast 'Focused on the Future', scientists from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and stakeholders talk about changing consumption and production patterns towards ecological sustainability for the long-term. 133241 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:42:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/we-want-to-internationalise-and-diversify-european-historiography With ‘The European Experience’, European historians contribute to a ‘multi-perspective’ study of European history. Assistant Professor Jochen Hung is one of them. 128311 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/katharine-frederick-wins-international-economic-history-association-dissertation-prize Assistant Professor Katharine Frederick has won the IEHA 20th-21st Century Dissertation Prize at the World Economic History Congress 2022 in Paris. 122202 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/nwo-veni-grants-for-economic-historian-selin-dilli-literary-scholars-leila-essa-and-mia-you-and The funding will enable these young researchers to further develop their research ideas over the next three years. 115680 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:15:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/nw-posthumus-institute-moves-to-utrecht As of 1 July 2021, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be hosted at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Department of History & Art History. 108011 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:59:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publication/why-the-corona-pandemic-might-boost-inequality-in-society A new study by professors Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer (WUR) shows that throughout history, most disasters and pandemics have boosted inequality instead of levelling it. Their article is now published in Nature Communications. 105092 Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:43:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/oecd-how-was-life-report-highlights-two-centuries-of-wellbeing-around-the-globe The new OECD publication ‘How was Life? II’ shows economic development and wellbeing in over 40 countries worldwide, in the last 200 years. Jan Luiten van Zanden, professor in Economic history, is one of the authors. 104896 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/shocking-history-lessons-what-disasters-can-teach-us-about-the-resilience-of-societies In the book 'Disasters and History', Utrecht historians describe important lessons we can learn from the history of disasters in society. 101077 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:42:00 +0100 Nieuws Cover boek Disasters and History /en/news/new-book-china-and-europe-on-the-new-silk-road New book by Oxford ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Press edited by Marijk van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson 100687 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:53:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/in-de-media/company-historian-shines-light-on-companies-in-crisis Bram Bouwens discusses the history of the companies KLM and Tata Steel. 100451 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:06:00 +0200 Nieuws KLM vliegtuig © iStockphoto.com/Sjo /en/news/europe-in-need-of-closer-cooperation-to-maintain-control Summary of a lecture by German ambassador Dirk Brengelmann and his French colleague Luis Vassy. 100020 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:44:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/vici-grant-for-tine-de-moor NWO awards a Vici grant to research leader Tine De Moor for research into citizens initiatives. 98388 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:21:00 +0200 Nieuws Prof. dr. Tine De Moor. Foto: Ed van Rijswijk