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The Living Lab Digital Humanities has been open for a year now. We asked a number of ardent users about their experiences and how they like it.

Associate professor of Media and Performance Studies Bruce Mutsvairo sees the freedom of the press in the two African countries steadily diminishing.

Waar ligt de grens tussen plezier en een verslaving? Zitten er ook positieve kanten aan gamen?

What if ecstasy was legal...could anyone just buy it? Or should there be an age limit? UU-students built the ecstasy buying simulator, a game where you can play with the idea of legalized ecstasy.

Several universities collaborate to investigate the implications of the increasing use of automated decision making and Artificial Intelligence

In this lecture Lady Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics, addressed the question what a social contract should look like that better connects with the challenges of the 21st century.

Under the guesteditorship of Ewout van der Knaap, an entire 'text + kritik, Zeitschrift für Literatur' issue is published, dedicated to the work of Robert Menasse.

The editors invite a broad range of contributions, ranging from shorter interventions and review essays to longer research papers. Deadline: 15 June 2022.

Suzanne won the prize for her bachelor thesis on the origin of the term 'Anthropocene' and the term's transition from geology to other sciences and beyond.

Although diplomatic historians had long recognized Lausanne as exceptional, focus stayed on the WWI 1919-20 treaties, Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Colin noticed.

Together with HIIG, focus area Governing the Digital Society organises a series of seminars and workshops on data commons. Register now!

According to the jury report, Green's thesis gives a great picture of the international taste of the eighteenth-century Dutch.

In an article for Crooked Timber Professor in the Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns writes about a problem she had long been aware of: geo-academic inequality.

Politics Home spoke to Assistant Professor in International History Iva Vukusic about his choice of words and what it means.

The funding will enable these young researchers to further develop their research ideas over the next three years.

This publication, edited by Koen Scholten, Dirk van Miert and others, sheds new light on the formation of early modern scientific communities.

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities join forces in the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. As part of this collaboration, the Utrecht Data School (UDS) has become part of the CDH under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities.

On Friday 25 March, the Diversity & Inclusion Award 2022 was presented by Diversity Dean Janneke Plantenga to Maranke Wieringa.

The Dutch Research Agenda funds research program "Re/Presenting Europe: Popular Representations of Diversity and Belonging."

A new book on scientific conservation is being published by Professor of the History of Art, Science and Technology Sven Dupré and researcher Jenny Boulboullé.

Robeyns will develop a framework to analyse visions for the future, Weststeijn will introduce a global perspective on Dutch seventeenth-century art.

Due to the cancellation of this workshop, the Centre for Digital Humanities is now organizing a replacement workshop for the course 'Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities teachers/researchers' on Friday March 18. Staff members of all faculties can register.

Three UU professors co-authored a publication on how scientists can generate impact. The publication is published by the KNAW.

Sanli Faez, Liesbeth van de Grift and Marjolijn Haasnoot participate in a national taskforce that will explore how Dutch climate researchers can join forces for a common agenda for climate research.

De Graaf and Drost see a crucial source for his radical ideology in the past: in the Russian empire of the nineteenth century.

Professor of Late and medieval Latin Els Rose has published a new book on citizenship in late antiquity and early medieval times.

MOED's new exhibition makes connections between the royal Golden Coach and the way the Dutch colonial past is commemorated in the Netherlands.

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In their four-part podcast, Sanne Frequin's honours students take us on an exploration of the world of medieval funerary monuments.

Associate professor Genderstudies Kathrin Thiele and Associate professor Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics Birgit Kaiser have recently published their new book The Ends of Critique.

Building on the book Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner, Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism offers new histories of freedom and republicanism.

They are developed in a context of international collaboration, trade and governance, but is the legal and normative framework we see today sustainable over time?

In Extrapolator Geoff Allen investigates topics at the intersection of philosophy and science.

We invite proposals for twenty minute papers addressing any aspect of medieval literature and literary culture.

The Deep Transitions Futures research project has developed a global crowdsourcing initiative, the project introduces the three scenarios and asks participants to choose which future they want to live in.

Sign up for the Visiting Professors Programme to conduct three months of research at the NWIB in Rome, Florence, Athens, St. Petersburg or Cairo.

Communication scientists Jan ten Thije and Inge Versteegt studied how asylum seekers value the information they receive from COA upon arrival. Student Houda Al Kalaf also contributed to the research.

The Culture Innovation Fund has selected The New Utrecht School's plan 'Prikkel' for further elaboration into a concrete plan.

Unesco’s City of Literature Utrecht asked literature scholar Mia You to write a poem in which she would combine Dutch and English.

In a prize-winning article, Rutger Claassen and Lisa Herzog introduce the concept of "economic agency" to assess whether economic structures are unjust.

Els Stronks shows that young people at the time were challenged to observe their own use of language as an object of study, developing new knowledge about language.

For this fifth call for projects to be funded by HAI, applications can be sent in until March 15.

Mediawetenschapper Dr. Abby Waysdorf legt uit waarom het filmtoerisme alsmaar populairder wordt.

Vliet won with her dissertation on the discourse of the Zwarte Piet debate and the relationship between memory, nation and racism in the Netherlands.

Geerdink will conduct a two-month study of 17th-century booksellers privileges requested by authors, Van Leerdam will study 16th-century printed 'calendars of shepherds' in four languages.

An overview of Dutch media attention for Geert Buelens' newly published book 'What we knew back then: The forgotten green history of 1972'.

On 9 February, Utrecht Young Academy member Dr. Laurien Crump discusses the Russian threat at the Ukrainian border at the Studium Generale lecture series De Duiders.

Tijdens de online nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst op 10 januari werden de winnaars van de jaarlijkse facultaire scriptieprijs bekend gemaakt: Louisa Niesen (MA Cultural History) en Rashmi Shetty (RMA Religious Studies)

De Turken gebruikten de Akropolis in de 15de eeuw waarschijnlijk helemaal niet als harem, ontdekte onderzoeker Janric van Rookhuijzen.

New book by Professor of Modern Dutch Literature Geert Buelens about the environmental crisis over the years.