Research programmes
History and Culture
(Research Institute for History and Culture)
- Ancient History and Classical Civilization
including: citizenship in the Greek city-states, religion and identity formation, reception of ancient culture through the centuries
- Art History
including: studio practices in the Renaissance, the classical architectural tradition through the centuries, historiography of Dutch art
- Cultural History
including: knowledge and science from 1500 onward, history of communication and media, (popular) culture and identity formation in past and present
- Economic and Social History
including: economic and social inequality, modernisation of Dutch society and economy before the Industrial Revolution, business history
- Gender Studies
including: gender and ethnicity, postcolonial studies, identity formation, feminist philosophy
- International and Political History
including: conflicts and conflict resolution, human rights, the shaping of political systems
- Media and Performance Studies
including: film and television history, games, theatre
- Medieval Culture
including: Arthurian romances, memoria culture, literacy
- Musicology
including: Dutch song culture, medieval and Renaissance music
- Textual Culture
including: literature and cultural memory, intermediality
Linguistics
(Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS)
- The architecture of the language system
including: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, discourse studies
- The study of the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and language processing
including: phonetics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism, language proficiency
- The study of language as it is used
including: sociolinguistics, language contact, language teaching, translation studies, lexicography, sign language, language and speech technology, document design
Philosophy
(Research Institute ZENO)
- History of Philosophy
including: ancient philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism), philosophy of the 17th century (Descartes, Dutch Cartesianism, Spinoza), philosophy of the 18th and early 19th century (Kant and German Idealism, natural philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, philosophical exchange between Europe and the Netherlands and vice versa)
- Practical Philosophy
including: moral philosophy, social and political philosophy and philosophical anthropology
- Theoretical Philosophy
including: philosophy of science, philosophy of language, logics, metaphysics
Theology
(Research institute INTEGON)