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Jon McKenzie is Centre for the Humanities SPRING Festival Fellow 2018. He will participate in several public activities.

Co-edited by Sarah Moran, this special issue considers activities of Catholic and Protestant women in Europe and the Americas in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Cathelijne Broers has been proclaimed Alumnus of the Year 2017 by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��

Stereotypes of Weimar Germany keep us from learning the right lessons: anti-democratic forces do not always come in reactionary guises, writes Jochen Hung.

In 'Het socialisme van nu' Ido de Haan and Anne-Marie Mreijen compiled important texts and correspondences of politician Marinus van der Goes van Naters.

The Dynamics of Youth programme committee has representatives from all seven faculties. Representing the Faculty of Humanities is linguist Frank Wijnen.

Koen Leurs and Alison Harvey have co-edited a special issue with a selection of works presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference.

Political developments in Italy are a precursor for the rest of Europe, conclude Pepijn Corduwener and Arthur Weststeijn in their book 'Proeftuin Italië'.

Beatrice de Graaf and Mirko Noordegraaf were involved in two reports on the approach of the municipality of Amsterdam to radicalization and counterterrorism.

From March onwards, Mauro Bonazzi is appointed professor in ancient and medieval philosophy. His research focuses on Plato and the history of ancient Platonism.

This book shows that 70 years of EU have taught us the difficulty of European solidarity and political unanimity. Co-edited by Liesbeth van de Grift.

To understand the many aspects of Mata Hari’s life, the filmmakers spoke with a variety of experts including Dr Marijke Huisman (Cultural History).

Aoju Chen was appointed professor in Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication

Dr Iris van der Tuin has been appointed professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Emergency measures frequently have unexpected or undesirable side-effects for society and the democratic rule of law.

The gap between the poor and the rich is growing, according to Oxfam Novib. What is causing inequality? And how do we turn the tide?

The journal is committed to promoting the scholarly study of perpetrators of mass killings, political violence, and genocide.

According to the PhD research by Anne van Leeuwen, timing and rhythm are important factors in conducting successful conversations.

Van Nederveen Meerkerk will study the role of household labour and consumption in the relocation of textile production across the world.

The laws of nature are what drive wealth inequality within a society, unless society takes action to counteract their effect, such as by adopting taxation laws.

The Consolidator Grant will allow Willemijn Ruberg to set up her own team of researchers and study the history of forensic medicine and psychiatry.

The essays in this book illuminate the current state of Rembrandt studies and suggest avenues for future inquiry. With a contribution by Thijs Weststeijn.

Johan Bolhuis: "There are some very interesting similarities between the way songbirds learn to sing and the way children learn to talk."

Professor Dr Gloria Wekker, Professor Dr Philomena Essed and Dr Leo Balai together win the Black Achievement 2017 in the category Science.

Joas Wagemakers won this year’s British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for the best book published in Middle Eastern Studies in 2016.

Co-edited by Jeroen Salman, this book demonstrates how materiality, sociality and spatiality contribute to a better understanding of early modern book history.

Economic growth is still not expressed in an equal rise of comprehensive wellbeing for Dutch households.

This book, co-edited by Dan Hassler-Forest, is one of the first critical studies of Star Wars, with essays from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars got together to address emerging issues related to big data in a joint-effort

Store chain HEMA has announced to discontinue sex indications in children's clothing: no more “boys” or “girls” departments, but simply “kids”.

Arnoud Visser, Nina Geerdink and Anna-Luna Post were awarded a KNAW grant to organise a colloquium on reputation in early modern Europe.

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk has been appointed as special professor Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work at Radboud ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Nijmegen.

Ellen Gerrits receives the grant for her research project 'Tracking speech and language development of Dutch children migrating to Australia'.

As of 1 august, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth has been appointed Head of Humanities at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College (UCU) for the coming four years.

This book argues that the ability to adapt, innovate and learn from the past is crucial for the success of intelligence organizations. Co-edited by Eleni Braat.

Jewish Love Magic is a monograph by Ortal-Paz Saar dedicated to the supernatural methods employed by Jews in order to generate love, grace or hate.

Open Access journal Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) offers a home to state-of-the-art academic scholarship on any aspect of the early modern Low Countries.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to 7 researchers from the faculty of Humanities.

The project Mediawise by making media has been accepted within the route Resilient and Meaningful Societies of the Dutch National Research Agenda.

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, VIEW brings its readers a fully redesigned website and the release of its latest issue.

A report of the Participatory Urban Interfaces conference on technology and city design that took place in Utrecht on 14 June.

With the grant Anya Luscombe-Serlie will do research in the U.S. this coming Fall semester for the project 'Eleanor Roosevelt and Liberal Arts Education'.

Ortal-Paz Saar received a grant for the purpose of organising an international Winter School entitled 'Digital Humanities and Jewish Epigraphy'.

In order to finalize a big archaeological research project in Athens, the researchers have started a crowdfunding campaign.

UGlobe, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, has launched a new website.

Prof. Chris Stolwijk has joined Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� on June 1, 2017 as professor History of Dutch Art.

50 years ago, the Six-Day War took place in the Middle East. Dr Lorena De Vita wrote a short piece on the East German take on the 1967 war.

The conference ‘1989 and the West. New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War’, was organised by Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener.

Michael Burke edited the four volume collection 'Stylistics', which will showcase the main developments and major achievements in stylistic scholarship.

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