/en en Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:20:27 +0200 Mon, 16 Jun 25 08:00:00 +0200 /en/news/ernst-van-den-hemel-appointed-professor-by-special-appointment-of-religion-in-heritage-and-popular On behalf of the Meertens Institute, this newly established chair is hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies within the Faculty of Humanities. 150097 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/roman-army-camp-found-beyond-roman-empires-northern-frontier “What makes this find so remarkable is that the camp lies beyond the frontier of the Roman Empire,” says Saskia Stevens. That border was some 25 kilometres south. 149727 Mon, 26 May 2025 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/learn-about-the-history-of-palestinian-people-in-a-new-online-course In the free Contemporary Palestinian History, you will deepen your understanding of Palestinian history and the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 148487 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:03:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/hiske-arts-appointed-alumnus-of-the-year-2024 Hiske Arts, campaign lead at Fossil Free NL, is the Alumnus of the Year 2024. She fights greenwashing and challenges the financial systems fuelling the climate emergency. 148161 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/utrecht-university-commemorates-second-world-war-victims-with-stolpersteine-on-domplein Students researched the stories of students and a professor who died during the Second World War. Memorial stones have now been placed in their honour. 147983 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/background/commemorating-five-utrecht-victims-of-the-second-world-war-the-stories-behind-the-stolpersteine These are Marianne Helena Blazer, Jacob Johannes Bol, Jacob van Gelderen, Cornelis van Lier, and Henny Mimi de Vries, for whom a Stolperstein has been placed today. 147985 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/team-summer-school-digital-art-history-wins-uu-team-award-education-2025 During the OnderwijsFestival on Thursday 6 March, the winning team of the UU Team Award Education was announced. 147606 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:21:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/queering-the-ancient-epic-of-manas-scary-and-extremely-exciting-at-the-same-time Aikokul Ibraeva receives Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize 2024 for her research into how sexuality and gender have been constructed in Kyrgyz culture. 145481 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:06:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/serious-measures-for-a-future-proof-faculty-of-humanities To ensure that Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��'s Faculty of Humanities is future-proofed, the faculty's board is taking serious measures in the coming years. These measures should help maintain breadth in teaching and research, while addressing the faculty's financial deficit. 144437 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/sjors-nab-and-sadie-nyman-mcknight-win-humanities-thesis-prizes Two young researchers received the thesis award: Sadie Nyman McKnight wrote about museums and the climate crisis, Sjors Nab about a lost painter from Bruges. 152062 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/estel-van-den-berg-and-charlotte-graafland-win-humanities-thesis-prizes This year's thesis awards went to research into an ethical dilemma faced by Dutch doctors and the dissemination of knowledge about the female body. 143167 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:54:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/faculty-of-humanities-welcomes-four-new-full-professors This summer, Kathrin Thiele, Danielle van den Heuvel, Birgit M. Kaiser, and Cadence Kinsey have been appointed as Professors at Utrecht’s Faculty of Humanities. 143040 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/incluusions-impressive-impact-on-refugee-students-and-uu-community What is the impact of the Incluusion programme on refugee students and the UU community? Two new studies explored this and the results are impressive. 142962 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/faculty-of-humanities-appoints-two-new-board-members-with-education-portfolio As of 1 September 2024, the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� will include two new Board members holding the Education portfolios. 142949 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:17:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/short-term-thinking-in-dutch-politics-comes-at-the-expense-of-the-longer-term In their research on short-termism, students from the Master’s in History of Politics and Society spoke to seven national (former) politicians. 142397 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publicatie/erasure-in-late-antiquity This volume brings together eight essays by eminent scholars, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation. 141377 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:57:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publicatie/city-citizen-citizenship-400-1500-a-comparative-approach Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages has a new book published, an interdisciplinary study of medieval thinking about the city in text, image, and material culture. 141189 Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:57:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/new-minor-environmental-humanities-sustainability-biodiversity-and-the-climate-crisis Humanities scholars have an important role to play in sustainability issues, students learn in Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s new Environmental Humanities minor. 140724 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publicatie/multilingualism-in-academia-and-educational-constellations Multilingualism in Academia and Educational Constellations is a new book exploring multilingual policies, theoretical concepts, and academic writing in multilingual contexts. 140937 Thu, 30 May 2024 12:57:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/celine-oldenhage-wins-tenth-verloren-publishersjohan-de-witt-thesis-prize Oldenhage wins the Master’s prize for her thesis Uit de zekerheid des doods en onzeker uure vandien, on graves and burials in Amsterdam’s churches after 1578. 137531 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:24:00 +0100 Nieuws