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The Birdcage of the Muses is the first book-length historical study of the golden age of Ptolemaic cultural and scientific patronage.

The project Mediawise by making media has been accepted within the route Resilient and Meaningful Societies of the Dutch National Research Agenda.

Dr Asker Pelgrom (Cultural History) is appointed as the new head of the History section at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. 

The central question within JOIN is how we prevent exclusion and strengthen meaningful participation of all young people in society.

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, VIEW brings its readers a fully redesigned website and the release of its latest issue.

A 'Massive Open Online Course' made by researchers within Future Food Utrecht

A report of the Participatory Urban Interfaces conference on technology and city design that took place in Utrecht on 14 June.

Ali Aljasem, Conflict Studies and Human Rights student, has been nominated for the ECHO Award 2017.

For the faculty thesis awards of Humanities, eight theses from the departments and research institutes have been nominated this year.

With the grant Anya Luscombe-Serlie will do research in the U.S. this coming Fall semester for the project 'Eleanor Roosevelt and Liberal Arts Education'.

Ortal-Paz Saar received a grant for the purpose of organising an international Winter School entitled 'Digital Humanities and Jewish Epigraphy'.

With the first English translation of the Missale Gothicum, Els Rose opens up the unique and colourful world of late antique and early medieval liturgical life.

In order to finalize a big archaeological research project in Athens, the researchers have started a crowdfunding campaign.

UGlobe, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, has launched a new website.

Utrecht University is ready to launch a new online course starting July 3rd, titled: 'Understanding child development – from Synapse to Society'.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion is a peer-reviewed series, volume 16 is written by Saskia Stevens.

Prof. Chris Stolwijk has joined Utrecht University on June 1, 2017 as professor History of Dutch Art.

This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that professionals play in this process.

50 years ago, the Six-Day War took place in the Middle East. Dr Lorena De Vita wrote a short piece on the East German take on the 1967 war.

The conference ‘1989 and the West. New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War’, was organised by Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener.