https://www.uu.nl/en en Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:01:53 +0200 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.uu.nl/en/background/call-open-cities-reading-circles If you are starting a new research project and want to read specific scholarship, we invite you to suggest a reading circle within our Open Cities events. 139199 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/utrecht-humanities-scholars-contributed-to-flemish-encyclopaedia Several humanities scholars and students have contributed to the latest (and digital) edition of the Encyclopaedia of the Flemish Movement. 137918 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/introducing-the-medieval-fox Emeritus Professor of Dutch Literature to 1500 Paul Wackers was invited to write a short holistic book about the fox in medieval culture for a general public. 136139 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:50:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/top-ten-fictional-narratives-in-early-modern-europe The book, edited by Helwi Blom, among others, examines ten of the most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe (1470-1800). 135064 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:48:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/this-is-not-a-grail-romance-understanding-historia-peredur-vab-efrawc Assistant Professor Natalia Petrovskaia provides answers to important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc. 134336 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:10:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/online-glossary-highlights-european-dimension-of-historical-popular-printing 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. 134190 Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:25:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/the-visual-memory-of-protest 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. 133110 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:22:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/more-than-7-million-euros-for-els-stronks-and-maaike-bleeker-from-dutch-research-agenda Professor of Early Modern Dutch Literature Els Stronks and Professor of Theatre Studies Maaike Bleeker receive funding to work on scientific and societal breakthroughs. 132041 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/special-section-the-minnesota-review-mobilizing-creativity Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Iris van der Tuin, and Nanna Verhoeff have edited a special section in the minnesota review on Mobilizing Creativity: A Humanities Perspective (part 1 of 2). 131426 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:25:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/frits-van-oostrom-on-forty-years-of-professorship-it-is-all-about-discovering-beauty Extensive interview with distinguished professor and Dutch linguist Frits van Oostrom, who retires from Utrecht University on 12 May. 130484 Thu, 11 May 2023 14:00:00 +0200 Nieuws Prof. dr. Frits van Oostrom. Foto: Ed van Rijswijk https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/rivolti-al-monte-studi-sul-purgatorio-dantesco In Rivolti al monte: studi sul ‘Purgatorio’ dantesco, Gandolfo Cascio, Reinier Speelman and Onno Kosters, among others, delve into Dante’s Purgatory. 129710 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:39:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/geert-buelens-wins-the-boon-flanders-most-significant-literature-prize Geert Buelens has won the Boon Literatuurprijs 2023 for his book ‘Wat we toen al wisten: De vergeten groene geschiedenis van 1972’. 129308 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/dossier-journal-of-latin-american-cultural-studies The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies just published the dossier Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America, edited by Reindert Dhondt and others. 128522 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:32:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/kila-van-der-starre-appointed-pc-hooft-award-jury-member Assistant Professor in Modern Dutch Literature Kila van der Starre will be a member of the jury of the P.C. Hooft Award for Literature 2024. 128138 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:22:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/seven-nwo-open-competition-grants-for-uu-humanities-scholars Seven Utrecht humanities scholars have been awarded research grants for their research projects in NWO’s Open Competition. 127430 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:10:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/research-is-opening-up-the-boundaries-in-my-thinking Veerle Fraeters will be appointed Professor of Middle Dutch literature and culture at the University of Utrecht on 1 January. 126195 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:31:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/medieval-flanders-was-a-cultural-crossroads-full-of-multilingualism Medieval scholar Jelmar Hugen saw people using Dutch, French and Latin interchangeably and wondered: why did some poets pepper their Dutch text with Latin quotations? 125208 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/poetry-as-protest-iranian-poet-spoke-out-for-womens-self-determination-100-years-ago The socially critical poetry of Parvīn Iᶜtiṣāmī (1907-1941) is more relevant than ever. Postdoc researcher Zhinia Noorian explains why (video). 125011 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:21:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/publication/afectos-y-violencias-en-la-cultura-latinoamericana The volume of essays 'Afectos y violencias en la cultura latinoamericana', co-edited by Reindert Dhondt, was recently published. 124206 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:27:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/anna-luna-post-wins-royal-netherlands-institute-in-rome-van-woudenberg-dissertation-award Anna-Luna Post received the Van Woudenberg Dissertation Prize from the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for her PhD thesis ‘Claiming Fame for Galileo’. 122260 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:01:00 +0200 Nieuws Galileo Galilei