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Several international media outlets reached out to assistant professor and genocide scholar Iva Vukusic for her expertise. An overview.

The KVS Preadviezen, compiled by Rutger Claassen and Dirk Schoenmaker, state, among other things, that companies should help solve societal challenges.

In total, more than a hundred authors contributed to ‘Even More Global History of the Netherlands’, editor Prof. Lex Heerma van Voss says.

Iris Muis has just returned from a trip to the European Parliament, where she presented the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA). The CDH spoke to her about the FRAIA and the developments within UDS.

The Utrecht University Focus Area Migration & Societal Change invites you to submit a proposal
for a panel or an individual paper for our conference in June 2023.

‘Badhai’ is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to ‘badhai’ performances throughout South Asia.

The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding no fewer than six ERC Starting Grants of €1.5 million each to researchers at Utrecht University.

For six months, Jesper Verhoef will research the crucial role the web plays in the lives of LGBTQI+ communities. He will use KB’s unique but largely unexplored web collection.

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?

The new book Wealth & Power by Professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics Rutger Claassen, among others, explores the link between wealth and politics.

On the 22nd and 23rd of June, the focus area Migration and Societal Change will host a migration conference in Utrecht.

Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Iris Muis of the Utrecht Data School were invited by The Greens/EFA to talk about the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA).

The socially critical poetry of Parvīn Iᶜtiṣāmī (1907-1941) is more relevant than ever. Postdoc researcher Zhinia Noorian explains why (video).

Professor Joost de Laat from the Center for Global Challenges was interviewed by DUB on how we engage students in thinking about global issues.

Professor of International History and the Environment Liesbeth van de Grift edited a new book on agriculture in the 20th century.

Last October, Beatrice de Graaf delivered the 33rd Wellington Lecture, which provided an insight into how the ‘terror’ of Napoleon was curbed in the years after 1815.

On 14 November, James Kennedy will give his inaugural lecture as Distinguished University Professor of Community Engaged Learning (CEL).

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.

The Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond awards the Visser-Neerlandia Prizes annually to people who dedicate themselves to the Dutch language and cultural community.

Rabeea Ahmad's thesis has been awarded with the Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize 2022.