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Alumni magazine Illuster interviewed Geert Buelens together with Director of Het Literatuurhuis Michaël Stoker about the visibility of literature in the city.

NWO spoke with Melvin Wevers on his research on the U.S. as reference culture.

On 15 September, professor Ann Rigney received an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Arnoud Visser, Nina Geerdink and Anna-Luna Post were awarded a KNAW grant to organise a colloquium on reputation in early modern Europe.

Prof. Sonja de Leeuw (professor of Dutch television culture in international context) has been invited to join the Academia Europaea.

Leonard Rutgers and Ortal-Paz Saar have been successful in securing a major competitive grant from the Rothschild Foundation.

Ryad and Lange received a grant to organise a KNAW colloquium to advance research in Arabo-Muslim Digital Humanities and Cultural Analytics.

Our Massive Open Online Course 'Understanding child development – from Synapse to Society' starts again on 25 September. Enroll now!

Het boek van Martine Veldhuizen is verschenen in de serie Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML 36)

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk has been appointed as special professor Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work at Radboud University Nijmegen.

The book explores the dynamics of Christian ritual practices in their relation to a broader cultural framework.

Ellen Gerrits receives the grant for her research project 'Tracking speech and language development of Dutch children migrating to Australia'.

As of 1 august, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth has been appointed Head of Humanities at Utrecht University College (UCU) for the coming four years.

This book argues that the ability to adapt, innovate and learn from the past is crucial for the success of intelligence organizations. Co-edited by Eleni Braat.

Jewish Love Magic is a monograph by Ortal-Paz Saar dedicated to the supernatural methods employed by Jews in order to generate love, grace or hate.

Open Access journal Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) offers a home to state-of-the-art academic scholarship on any aspect of the early modern Low Countries.

In a blog for the Peace Palace Library, Ugur Ümit Üngör compares Syria and Iraq with Timothy Snyder's theory of the European bloodlands between 1933 and 1945.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to 7 researchers from the faculty of Humanities.

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.