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Students from this year’s Public International Law (PIL) Legal Clinic have been providing legal assistance to UGlobe’s societal partners Airwars and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG).

De Vita’s research explores the history and politics of Holocaust memory to point to the significance, and fragility, of international institutions

Prosody (for example, rhythm and accent) is the first contact that an unborn child has with language, the mother, and the outside world.

Ten Utrecht based researchers receive a Vici grant from NWO. They will each receive 1.5 million euros.

We need more than our current strategy to solve the corona crisis. Four historians, including Beatrice the Graaf, state the importance of a multidisciplinary approach.

Ozan Ozavci pleas for a top to bottom change to bring diversity to the Utrecht University.

Utrecht University researchers engaged in the development of a local network of initiatives working towards sustainability and social change.

What is an open city? How is it governed and spatially organised? And how can it be studied?

Prof. dr. Bas van Bavel has been appointed Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as of 1 April. He wants to use this new position to further stimulate cooperation within Social Sciences & Humanities.

A report of the workshop “Critical Views on Stereotypes: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”, which took place on February 24.

A knowledge and investment consortium has been awarded an €8 million grant to accelerate the application of innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Three artists were able to create a work inspired by the corona crisis with a contribution from Utrecht University, ZonMW and the Centraal Museum.

Martha Frederiks has been appointed extraordinary professor from January 1 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

A new study by professors Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer (WUR) shows that throughout history, most disasters and pandemics have boosted inequality instead of levelling it. Their article is now published in Nature Communications.

Alessandra Schimmel wrote a blog for Liesbeth van de Grift's Vidi-project about European consumers groups from the seventies onwards.

In an interview with Pointer, Belle Derks explains how couples choose a division of labour when they plan on having children.

Peter Malcontent discusses the role of the issue of Palestine in Israel's current election campaigns.

For research project Remembering Activism, Marit van de Warenburg wrote a blog about Black Lives Matter protest music.

Last year, Philippe Roepstorff-Robiano published his book about credits fictions, for which he received praise in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

UGlobe Café waarin is gekeken naar de democratische situatie in relatie tot de coronacrisis in Nederland, Israël en Brazilië.