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This month, the research for Dramaturgy for Devices begins. In this project, researchers and artists are working on the behaviour and communicative skills of robots.

Assistant Professor of History of International Relations Peter Malcontent explains the situation in the Middle East in various media. An overview of developments.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. This time: student housing.

How can brands design their chatbot effectively? In Conversational AI, Charlotte van Hooijdonk and others offer practical guidance.

Professor of German Ewout van der Knaap has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz: a high German distinction. An interview about his commitment to German language and culture.

How can we expose both the environmental and the social impact of planetary crises? And what are the pros and cons of using AI to create new (scientific) knowledge?

Renée Vulto sheds new light on the history of Dutch political songs through her book Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period.

In her book From Pessimism to Promise, Payal Arora argues that it is not naïve to be optimistic about our digital future.

Van Dijck was awarded this honorary doctorate on the recommendation of the Faculty of Humanities for her work in the fields of media studies and digital society.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: the singing culture of students.

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.

Sanne Frequin and Daantje Meuwissen discuss their research on the ceiling paintings of the Grote Kerk Naarden with the use of a 3D model.

Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention is the new publication by Mirko Schäfer and Karin van Es.

The Open Cities Platform announces the launch of their Monthly Research Seminar, an engaging and collaborative space designed for UU researchers and students to present and feedback research.

Konstantinos Kogkalidis received the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars’.

In Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean, Erik de Lange highlights security within international relations.

Emeritus Distinguished Professor Bob Becking publishes the first volume of Sheffield Phoenix Press’s Trauma Bible Commentary van Sheffield Phoenix Press series.

Following the rocket attack on a football field in the Golan Heights, Joas Wagemakers explain the crux of the situation with the possible consequencess on NU.nl.

Following the PVV's use of the term ‘omvolking’, Annelotte Janse explains what the term means, where it comes from, and how it is used.

Timeline | Five scholars provide a step-by-step explanation of the history and background of the current Israel-Hamas war, known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. This time: the university community.

Yara Al Salman receives two national awards for her dissertation: the Keetje Hodshon Award and the Legatium Stolpianum.

Three Utrecht humanities scholars receive funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the PhDs in the Humanities programme.

Annette Markham is Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. In this interview, she discusses her research.

Utrecht researchers developed a broader method to measure welfare: the Better Well-being Index (BWI). This year, broad welfare in the Netherlands increased.

This volume brings together eight essays by eminent scholars, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation.

Lorena De Vita is the recipient of the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.

White conducts research into how responsible policy decisions can be made during crises, when quick action is needed but based on limited information.

[Interview] Professor Leonard Rutgers and his colleagues research the way in which Jewish migrants spead across Europen in the Roman era.

Since the birth of Islam, there have always been critical dissenters. ERC project Beyond Sharia examines precisely these non-conformists.

Els Rose has received an honorary doctorate from the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Lausanne. Rose is professor of late and medieval Latin at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Laura Almagor has written the chapter ‘Jewish Territorialism and 'Other Zions'’ in the Routledge Handbook on Zionism which will be published this month.

In the context of Constructing the Limes, objects from the PUG collection will be made available digitally and the most remarkable will be exhibited at Castellum Hoge Woerd.

A multidisciplinary team of UU researchers investigated the screening, data-extraction and examination of smartphones of asylum seekers at the start of the asylum procedure.

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.

Every month, Emeritus Professor of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s long history. This time: rituals surrounding bereavement.

Scholars of religion Joas Wagemakers, Lucien van Liere and Eric Ottenheim discuss the role of religion in the war between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jip Lensink contributed to the book Wereldkerken in Nederland. She recorded stories of migrants from Evangelical and Pentecostal churches as well as international churches.

Multilingualism in Academia and Educational Constellations is a new book exploring multilingual policies, theoretical concepts, and academic writing in multilingual contexts.

In Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney offer new insights into the potential of archives to become sites of renewed critical engagement.

Naomi Ellemers: 'With this money, we can spend the next 10 years researching how to strengthen social connections in society without undermining other connections.'

In May and June 2024, Sandra Ponzanesi is Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIB) Visiting Professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).

Payal Arora has been invited be a member of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV).

In his new book Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music, Michiel Kamp offers an account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music.

The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement, co-edited by Jamie Draper, shines a light on the barely touched upon topic of internal displacement.

In her new book, Liliane Stadler examines Switzerland's role in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 and why and how this role changed in this period.

The graphic novel, a public engagement activity, aims to tell the complex history of peace-making in the inter-war era in a fun but still thought-provoking manner.

Data donation presents a new and unique approach to collecting digital trace data. The team of Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen are conducting two pilot studies involving Netflix and ChatGPT.

How can and should the government respond to the current low participation in the vaccination programme? Ethicists Marcel Verweij and Roland Pierik (Maastricht) offer advice in their new book.

Stefan Gaillard and Martijn van der Meer have been listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Science and Healthcare in Europe, in recognition of co-founding the Journal of Trial and Error.