Climate change means that we have to deal with history in new ways, Professor Thijs Weststeijn argues in his new book The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate.
In the world of AI regulation, power is not evenly distributed. PhD candidate Arthur Gwagwa writes in Global Policy about Africa’s position in this world.
The music of the Dutch revolutionary years around 1800 has been brought back to life. What it sounded like? Listen for yourself and let Renée Vulto tell you more.
“A centenary is quite something, of course,” lecturer Nike Stam says. “So we would like to celebrate it generously with everyone!” Expect workshops, lectures and musical surprises.
Assistant Professor in Linguistics Jakub Dotlacil receives a two million euro ERC Consolidator Grant to build a research group for his Memory Access in Language.
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.
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.
Erik Meinema has received the dissertation award of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) for his dissertation Regulating Religious Coexistence.
“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.
Marcel Verweij has been appointed professor of Philosophical Ethics. He investigates what philosophical issues of today can mean for ethical theory and vice versa.
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin (University of Southampton) have recently published their new book about Treaty of Lausanne and the post-Ottoman world.
The Analytics Advisory Committee will provide solicited and unsolicited advice to the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Administration, Customs and Service Surcharges.
Faculty professor Beatrice de Graaf received the award for her book Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815, “a Gesamtkunstwerk”.
Research by TerInfo shows some 87 per cent of children think the world suffers from more and more terrorist attacks and a part of them sometimes lies awake worrying.
The ‘blurb’, as the promotional quote on the front and back of books is called, is found on many book covers. Jelle Strikwerda did research on this advertising phenomenon.
The use of heavy weaponry proved to be deliberate and large-scale, Azarja Harmanny revealed, and the fact that these weapons caused civilian deaths was accepted.
In the mini-documentary Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris, music scholar Eric Jas explains the underlying message and why the composer chose this printing method.
Call for contributions: book series that aims to promote and diversify critical discussions on the sociopolitical and cultural impacts of new technologies.
The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies just published the dossier Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America, edited by Reindert Dhondt and others.
With ‘The European Experience’, European historians contribute to a ‘multi-perspective’ study of European history. Assistant Professor Jochen Hung is one of them.
Dossier article | Professor of History of International Relations Laurien Crump has been a guest of several media outlets to comment on the war in Ukraine.
With four humanities scholars from different disciplines, we analyse the current state of affairs and look ahead: what are possible outcomes of this war?