What if ecstasy was legal...could anyone just buy it? Or should there be an age limit? UU-students built the ecstasy buying simulator, a game where you can play with the idea of legalized ecstasy.
In this lecture Lady Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics, addressed the question what a social contract should look like that better connects with the challenges of the 21st century.
Under the guesteditorship of Ewout van der Knaap, an entire 'text + kritik, Zeitschrift für Literatur' issue is published, dedicated to the work of Robert Menasse.
The editors invite a broad range of contributions, ranging from shorter interventions and review essays to longer research papers. Deadline: 15 June 2022.
Suzanne won the prize for her bachelor thesis on the origin of the term 'Anthropocene' and the term's transition from geology to other sciences and beyond.
Although diplomatic historians had long recognized Lausanne as exceptional, focus stayed on the WWI 1919-20 treaties, Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Colin noticed.
In an article for Crooked Timber Professor in the Ethics of Institutions Ingrid Robeyns writes about a problem she had long been aware of: geo-academic inequality.
The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities join forces in the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University. As part of this collaboration, the Utrecht Data School (UDS) has become part of the CDH under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities.
A new book on scientific conservation is being published by Professor of the History of Art, Science and Technology Sven Dupré and researcher Jenny Boulboullé.
Due to the cancellation of this workshop, the Centre for Digital Humanities is now organizing a replacement workshop for the course 'Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for humanities teachers/researchers' on Friday March 18. Staff members of all faculties can register.
Sanli Faez, Liesbeth van de Grift and Marjolijn Haasnoot participate in a national taskforce that will explore how Dutch climate researchers can join forces for a common agenda for climate research.
Associate professor Genderstudies Kathrin Thiele and Associate professor Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics Birgit Kaiser have recently published their new book The Ends of Critique.
Building on the book Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner, Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism offers new histories of freedom and republicanism.
They are developed in a context of international collaboration, trade and governance, but is the legal and normative framework we see today sustainable over time?
Communication scientists Jan ten Thije and Inge Versteegt studied how asylum seekers value the information they receive from COA upon arrival. Student Houda Al Kalaf also contributed to the research.
Els Stronks shows that young people at the time were challenged to observe their own use of language as an object of study, developing new knowledge about language.
Geerdink will conduct a two-month study of 17th-century booksellers privileges requested by authors, Van Leerdam will study 16th-century printed 'calendars of shepherds' in four languages.
On 9 February, Utrecht Young Academy member Dr. Laurien Crump discusses the Russian threat at the Ukrainian border at the Studium Generale lecture series De Duiders.
Tijdens de online nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst op 10 januari werden de winnaars van de jaarlijkse facultaire scriptieprijs bekend gemaakt: Louisa Niesen (MA Cultural History) en Rashmi Shetty (RMA Religious Studies)
Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, PhD candidate in the History and Art History department, contributed as a lab technician to the extraction of DNA from human skeletal remains.