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

Prof. Rosi Braidotti's most recent book 'The Posthuman' is translated into German and Italian.

About the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution.

In 'The Postcolonial Cultural Industry – Icons, Markets, Mythologies' the relationship between postcolonialism and the cultural industry is investigated.

In this book, De Cauwer argues that the Austrian author Musil can be regarded as one of the most original and hard-hitting cultural critics of his time.

Frits van Oostrom receives an honorary doctorate for his contributions in making Dutch medieval literature accessible for a large audience.

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

This collection explores those influences in (post-)colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts.

In 'Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires', Strootman discusses court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East.

In this book, Buelens demonstrates that poets were engaging with the battlefields of WWI with weapons as well as words.

Leo Lousberg (alumnus Musicology and Medieval Studies) is the winner of the Utrecht History Award 2014 (Utrecht Geschiedenisprijs 2014).

In his new book 'Waagstuk Europa', historian Mathieu Segers outlines which problems concerning Europe the Netherlands will have to face.

In this project, six articles of Kant's 'Perpetual Peace' are adapted and reworked into a children's book.

On exhibition ‘Van Oostsanen: de eerste Hollandse meester’, in the Amsterdam Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and the Grote Kerk in Alkmaar.

This book brings together ten innovative studies on varieties of masculinity evidenced in several early Christian writings.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Province of Zeeland in 2014, historians of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ have published a historical overview.

Origin of 'medieval' sea charts disproven

Historian Jacco Pekelder explains how both the Netherlands and Germany have been working on their relationship since the mid-nineties.

A reconstruction of a pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting from two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'.

Five Masters of our Faculty of Humanities have been ranked best in their field in the Netherlands, according to the Keuzegids Masters 2014.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ confers an honorary degree to the American philosopher Michael Sandel.

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).

As a part of the project Annotated Books Online, Arnoud Visser has made Luther's annotated bible digitally available.

The Journal of Literary Semantics has recently published a special issue on the topic of ‘Explorations in Cognitive Literary Science’.