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As of 1 September 2015 Prof. Hans Hoeken is appointed Professor of Communication and Information Studies at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Curtis, Leurs and Sysling each receive up to 250,000 euro to conduct their own research in the upcoming three years.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is one of the partners in the Creative Territories network, the publisher of this guide.

Tieleman receives funding from NWO for his project ‘Human Nature: Medical and Philosophical Perspectives in the Work of Galen of Pergamum’.

This new chair focuses on the production and consumption of art and its embedding in the history of knowledge.

Tames (1976) will hold a new endowed chair, intended to keep the memory of resistance during World War II alive.

De Jong succeeds Steven Krauwer as director of the governing body of Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN).

The Spinoza prize, the most prestigious academic awards in the Netherlands, consists of 2.5 million euros to conduct research.

Tom Giesbers, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship.

Prof. Robeyns (Ethics of Institutions) will co-author a chapter on 'Perspectives for social justice and wellbeing'.

Musicologist Karl Kügle and his team will study the rol of music in late medieval court cultures at a European scale.

Dr Katell Lavéant is one of the fifteen researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ to receive a Vidi grant from the NWO.

Almost 1 million euros has been granted to the research project "Grage - Grey and green in Europe: elderly living in urban areas".

The NLeSC has granted a funding to "Mining Shifting Concepts through Time (ShiCo): Word Vector Text Mining Change and Continuity in Conceptual History".

Reindert Dhondt wrote the first systematic study on the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) as a follower of the baroque.

A new book of historian Tine de Moor will be published at Cambridge ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Press, entitled 'The Dilemma of the Commoners'.

The jury awarded Van Bruinessen the Sakip Sabanci International Research Award for his work on Kurds and Alevis.

Eugene van Erven, Domitilla Olivieri and Maartje Willemijn Smits have started a partnership with Oxfam Novib on the project E-Motive ‘Going Global’.

In this volume Frank Kessler charts the history of the term 'mise en scène', from 19th century theatre circles til the contemporary media landscape.

The American Men’s Studies Association awarded a Loren Frankel Memorial scholarship to PhD student Krizia Nardini (ICON).

The project 'A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning' is funded by the European Committee.

Emanuel Overbeeke's dissertation on Dutch symphonic orchestras between 1945 and 2000 is nominated for the Boekman Dissertation Prize.

This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban space.

As of 1 april 2015, Teun Tieleman will be Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at the Faculty of Humanities.

Surprisingly little is known about how and why industrialisation moved across the globe.

Sandra Ponzanesi has received an ERC Grant to study the role of digital technologies in the integration of migrant communities in Europe.

In the 7-volume synthesis Syntax of Dutch, two new volumes have been published on verbs and verb phrases. Norbert Corver is one of the authors.

NWO has granted Franck Meijboom's request to start a research project on innovative methods of animal testing.

For the European LUCIDE project, Jacomine Nortier and Ivana Brasileiro researched multilingualism in Utrecht.

This volume investigates the role played by the resources of the past in forming the identities of communities in Early Medieval Western Europe.

In 'The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered', Laurien Crump presents the findings of her PhD research on a pivotal period in the Cold War.

In Keetie Sluyterman's book 'Varieties of Capitalism and Business History: The Dutch Case', different national economies and their merits are compared.

Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere is a new book about the myth of (liberal) secularism.

The Archeolab project has received funding from the K.F. Hein Fonds.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has award a research prize (Forschungspreis) to Prof. Mayke de Jong, Professor of Medieval History.

The FIRES project (Financial and Institutional Reform for the Entrepreneurial Society) received a grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Union.

The new and improved EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items from audiovisual archives.

People’s wellbeing has increased in the past 200 years. That is one of the conclusions of the report 'How Was Life? Global Well-Being since 1820'.

In his new book 'Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200', Rob Meens sets the rituals of penance and confession in their social and historical contexts.

'150 years of Heineken: Brewery, brand, and family' describes the national and international expansion of the Gerard Heineken's brewing company.

Prof. Leonard V. Rutgers has received a € 750,000 grant for the project 'Reconfiguring Diaspora: The Transformation of the Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity'.

A book by Ryad and Götzbruch about the transnational history of islamic intellectuals during the Interbellum.

Dr Umar Ryad has been awarded a ERC Starting Grant to investigate islamic intellectuals in the interwar period.

The brains of both speakers and listeners take language predictability into account, a team of neuroscientists has found.

Origin of 'medieval' sea charts disproven

On Friday 7 February the Faculty received the sad news that our colleague Jim Hurley has passed away at the age of 57.

Researchers from the Department of Economic and Social History of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ have digitalised the Amsterdam premarriage records (1581-1811).

'Troy: City, Homer and Turkey' (edited by Floris van den Eijnde) presents the latest findings with regard to both the historical and the legendary Troy.