Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: activism in academics.
In the Groningen landscape, you will find few signs that directly refer to gas extraction. Utrecht University scholars Gertjan Plets and Nikkie Wiegink aim to change this.
In Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space, Haidee Kotze, among others, brings together leading researchers.
By making the source code freely available, the CDH Research Software Lab has made their text and data mining tool I-Analyzer accessible to everyone for free.
Read this book by Roberta Biasillo, 'An Environmental History of the Pontine Marshes: Terracina from the Unification to the Integral Reclamation (1871-1928)' in English, in open access.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the legendary Professor Donders.
Would you like to gain insight into the statements of a politician or party? The Dutch Parliamentary Speeches, from 1815 to 2022, have now been added to the text search and exploration tool I-Analyzer.
To increase the familiarity of the concept of ‘Open Science’, the team of the Open Science Escape Room project designed the online escape room Last Contact.
From 1 January 2024, David Onnekink will hold the Special Chair in Christian Ecological Thinking at the Theological University Kampen-Utrecht three days a week.
While deepening a pont in his garden, Erwin Jesterhoudt stumbled upon a piece of an old wall and discovered, using a digital historical map from Utrecht University, it was an 18th-century fortress wall.
The first CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award was given to Saskia Stevens. “This is not just an award for me, but for our entire Constructing the Limes team.”
In 2023-2024, Professor of Dutch Language Use and Discourse Studies Ted Sanders will head the Desiderius Erasmus Chair of Nederlands over de grenzen at Université catholique de Louvain.
Academics of the Utrecht University Faculty of Humanities and Data School investigated the dynamic between political debate in the Dutch House of Representatives and reactions, commentary and framing on social media.
Assistant Professor Natalia Petrovskaia provides answers to important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc.
What is the difference between a journal and a gazette? And what is a hornbook? The new online Glossary of Early Modern Popular Print Genres offers answers.
Vernacular Books and Their Readers, edited by Andrea van Leerdam et al., explores approaches to study European vernacular books and reading practices in the 15th-16th centuries.
It is up to the government to keep AI in check, researchers Fabian Ferrari, Antal van den Bosch, and José van Dijck advise the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
This handbook, edited by, among others, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, places objects and bodies at the centre of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.
A post-revisionist approach on European imperialism: Ozan Ozavci on his research into European interventions in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
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.
On The Conversation, Assistant Professor Frank Gerits writes about the five recent coups in Africa and how the French president Macron comes into play.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University's long history. This time: the hazing.
Emeritus Professor Bob Becking recently published this new examination of the 33rd book of the Hebrew Bible, which offers a new theory of its composition history.
Available in open access, this work edited by Professor Ann Rigney and researcher Thomas Smits, zooms in on the role of photography in the memory-activism nexus.
In The Conversation, lecturer Morten Byskov, Assistant Professor Jeroen Hopster and Júlia Isern Bennassar write about the recently passed climate law on the Balearic Islands.
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits.
Are you conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research in the field of human-centered artificial intelligence, or are you planning to? Then be sure to apply by 8 September.
The influence of expert witnesses in the courtroom does not only depend on the available scientific knowledge or technology, international, comparative research shows.
Professor of Early Modern Dutch Literature Els Stronks and Professor of Theatre Studies Maaike Bleeker receive funding to work on scientific and societal breakthroughs.
Een interview met Jeroen Salman over het EDPOP-project en hoe de bibliotheek en het Centre for Digital Humanities hieraan hebben bijgedragen. An interview with Jeroen Salman about the EDPOP project and how the library and the Centre for Digital Humanities contributed to the project.
First Dutch female student Anna Maria van Schurman played a special role in the cultural exchange between the Netherlands and China, new art history research shows .
Culture scholar Vincent Crone, together with ten students, conducted research on ethnic diversity and representation in the film and AV sector on behalf of the Ministry of Culture (OCW).
In Heerlen, during Heel Heerlen Graaft, residents join archaeologists in their search for Roman remains in their city. A good example of citizen science.