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This issue of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities invites critical reflections on relationships, resistance, and solidarity that challenge and inspire.

Researchers receive Biodiversa+ funding for research into nature-based solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change.

Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

Sustainability-focused teaching materials encourage students to think critically about the life cycle of plastics and the environmental impact of chemical processes related to plastics.

Ahmed has nearly 860 thousand subscribers on YouTube and an impressive 1.3 million followers on Facebook. Today, Ahmed will defend his PhD thesis.

Three Utrecht research projects have been awarded funding within the programme National Science Agenda Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC).

Kári Driscoll translates Teresa Präauer's ‘Tier werden’ into ‘Becoming Animal’, which explores cultural zoology and the evolution of words, images and identity.

Potentially, simply spraying such molecules on a field could delay the agriculturally undesired effects of aging in crop plants.

Dried plant bundles sold for ritual burning often include plants from distant regions that may be harvested unsustainably to meet the rising demand.

Join us for Engage Actually on 3 December: an afternoon dedicated to Public Engagement at the Faculty of Science.

Jonas Lembrechts: “It is clear that if nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands do not decrease, plant diversity will become increasingly impoverished."

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

Dong Nguyen receives an ERC Starting Grant and will research how data diversity affects the quality and behavior of language models.

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

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.

Uncertainty is ubiquitous among healthcare professionals and digital escape rooms can provide a solution.

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 ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’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.

The 2024 maximum for free of charge open access publishing at two publishers has nearly been reached.

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’.