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We are excited to host a range of lectures and activities at the crossroads of the fair transitions and land governance debates in this year’s Summer School: Fair Transitions and the Politics of Land: Institutions and Imaginaries for Inclusive Futures. We hope it will draw many of you to Utrecht!

At the Pathways Conference on 4 April, the Critical Pathways and Sustainable Ocean communities jointly organized a session on the topic of ‘Whose Ocean’

This week heralds a significant strengthening of the relationship between Africa’s science and innovation research, policy and investment communities, and the members and coordinating partners of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) with the opening of a new strategic alliance at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Pretoria (UoP) in South Africa.

As of 15 June 2023, the Executive Board has appointed Franck Meijboom Professor of Sustainable Animal Stewardship at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

In this new volume, authors explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace.

In contemporary conversation, “myth” is commonly used to mean “misconception”. The usage stems from colonial times when anthropologists differentiated between primitive religions, replete with myths, and the scientific worldview. But in creating this dichotomy, the children of the Enlightenment have been doing themselves a disservice.

Ozan Ozavci and Elena Tribushinina have been awarded research grants for their research projects in NWO’s Open Competition.

During his farewell as university professor at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Frits van Oostrom was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.

The first years of your life are the most important time of your life in terms of development. It is a time in which the brain is highly flexible and much is set in place for the years after that. Neonatologist Jeroen Dudink, linguist Aoju Chen and pedagogue Pauline Slot agree on this. They are the three community presidents who work with post-doctoral researcher Eline de Groot on the build-up of the Early Childhood community.

Extensive interview with distinguished professor and Dutch linguist Frits van Oostrom, who retires from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� on 12 May.

In Philosophy Now, Assistant Professor Maurits de Jongh discusses the insights of philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) to help understand the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Antal van den Bosch will become the new chair of the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and a member of the NWO Executive Board as of 1 July.

Erik Meinema has received the dissertation award of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) for his dissertation Regulating Religious Coexistence.

Edited by Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff, Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture was recently published.

“We need to invest in people, laws, and technology,” José van Dijck briefly summarises the message of her mini-masterclass ChatGPT for the Tweede Kamer.

From 1 April, Paul Ziche has taken over the directorship of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities from Bert Theunissen.

The Faculty of Theology honours Birgit Meyer for her studies on African Pentecostalism and her numerous impulses for research on religion.

From 1 May 2023 onwards, the Digital Humanities Lab, part of the Centre for Digital Humanities, will continue under the name: Research Software Lab.

Yun Xie has won the 2022 Tiele thesis award for her Master’s thesis Republic of Characters: A Social Network Centred on the Hong Kong Type.

Contesting Governance core team members, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Katharine Fortin, are coordinators of a new multi-faculty minor titled Re-Imagining Security.