https://www.uu.nl/en en Fri, 03 May 2024 17:08:03 +0200 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:39:00 +0100 https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/we-want-investors-to-focus-on-system-change-not-system-optimisation Johan Schot talks about the Deep Transitions Lab. In the lab, impact investing and the question of how investing could tackle challenges such as climate change is studied. 136885 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:39:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/robert-vonk-appointed-as-professor-by-special-appointment-for-history-of-social-security “The chair focuses on the development of social security in the Netherlands in an international perspective”, Vonk says. 134935 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:19:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/capital-shortage-credit-and-indian-economic-development-1920-1960 Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant’s ability to invest in land. 133636 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:48:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-focused-on-the-future-podcast-episode-government In this podcast 'Focused on the Future', scientists from Utrecht University and stakeholders talk about changing consumption and production patterns towards ecological sustainability for the long-term. 133241 Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:42:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/we-want-to-internationalise-and-diversify-european-historiography With ‘The European Experience’, European historians contribute to a ‘multi-perspective’ study of European history. Assistant Professor Jochen Hung is one of them. 128311 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/katharine-frederick-wins-international-economic-history-association-dissertation-prize Assistant Professor Katharine Frederick has won the IEHA 20th-21st Century Dissertation Prize at the World Economic History Congress 2022 in Paris. 122202 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/nwo-veni-grants-for-economic-historian-selin-dilli-literary-scholars-leila-essa-and-mia-you-and The funding will enable these young researchers to further develop their research ideas over the next three years. 115680 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:15:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/nw-posthumus-institute-moves-to-utrecht As of 1 July 2021, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be hosted at Utrecht University, Department of History & Art History. 108011 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:59:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/why-the-corona-pandemic-might-boost-inequality-in-society A new study by professors Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer (WUR) shows that throughout history, most disasters and pandemics have boosted inequality instead of levelling it. Their article is now published in Nature Communications. 105092 Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:43:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/oecd-how-was-life-report-highlights-two-centuries-of-wellbeing-around-the-globe The new OECD publication ‘How was Life? II’ shows economic development and wellbeing in over 40 countries worldwide, in the last 200 years. Jan Luiten van Zanden, professor in Economic history, is one of the authors. 104896 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/shocking-history-lessons-what-disasters-can-teach-us-about-the-resilience-of-societies In the book 'Disasters and History', Utrecht historians describe important lessons we can learn from the history of disasters in society. 101077 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:42:00 +0100 Nieuws Cover boek Disasters and History https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-book-china-and-europe-on-the-new-silk-road New book by Oxford University Press edited by Marijk van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson 100687 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:53:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/in-the-media/company-historian-shines-light-on-companies-in-crisis Bram Bouwens discusses the history of the companies KLM and Tata Steel. 100451 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:06:00 +0200 Nieuws KLM vliegtuig © iStockphoto.com/Sjo https://www.uu.nl/en/news/europe-in-need-of-closer-cooperation-to-maintain-control Summary of a lecture by German ambassador Dirk Brengelmann and his French colleague Luis Vassy. 100020 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:44:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/vici-grant-for-tine-de-moor NWO awards a Vici grant to research leader Tine De Moor for research into citizens initiatives. 98388 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:21:00 +0200 Nieuws Prof. dr. Tine De Moor. Foto: Ed van Rijswijk https://www.uu.nl/en/news/covid-19-from-global-challenge-to-global-transformation-perspectives-from-students-around-the-world Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges organizes COVID-19 global webinar series. 96281 Tue, 19 May 2020 08:38:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/tine-de-moor-co-author-of-new-publication-in-energy-research-social-science-journal Tine De Moor contributed to the paper 'Transforming innovation for decarbonisation'. 91435 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:18:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/bringing-back-the-national-to-the-study-of-globally-circulating-policy-ideas-actually-existing-smart This study by Damion Bunders and Krisztina Varró was recently published by Sage Journals. 89567 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:37:00 +0100 Nieuws © iStockphoto.com https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/apprenticeship-in-early-modern-europe In November Camebridge University Press published "Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe". This book is edited by Maarten Prak a.o. 88667 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:03:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/market-dominance-and-inequality-make-societies-more-vulnerable-to-natural-disasters Bas van Bavel's contribution to the 2019 Human Development Report. 88221 Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:41:00 +0100 Nieuws