HUMmagazine - News

As of 1 January 2019, Johan Schot will be joining the Centre for Global Challenges as Professor of Global Comparative History.

Queen Wilhelmina played a much more active role in the Kaiser’s fleeing to the Netherlands than has always been assumed.

On 5 October Uitgeverij Klement published 'Shall we stay in touch. How we remove the mind from our worldview', a book by Rob van Gerwen.

Last month the book 'Capabilities in a Just Society. A Theory of Navigational Agency' by dr. Rutger Claassen has been published.

The PCI announces its 8th film series with a selection of films that draw on a variety of different contexts in our postcolonial world.

We process it more easily when a woman performs a male activity than when a man performs a female activity.

The Wall Street Journal selected five best books on the cost of courage under Nazism.

For the closing conference of the ERC-project 'Securing Europe, Fighting its Enemies' the organization is looking for paper proposals.

Netspar has awarded a grant of €250.000 for a study into the effectiveness of existing interactive online decision aids for pension scheme participants.

On 24 September History Today published an article of dr. Rachel Gillett on music of the Napoleonic era.

The Utrecht Data School was present at the annual congress Overheid 360°, a platform for data-driven solutions in public administration

This volume explores the role of money in economic performance, and focuses on how monetary systems have affected economic crises for the last 4,000 years.

When did the process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies?

This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it.

This week the book 'Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium', edited by Alexander Badenoch, was published.

On October 26 he will give a keynote lecture titled 'Big Tech Beyond the Algorithm'.

In this book Duco Hellema portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition.

VPRO Tegenlicht has just launched the international version of the Backlight documentary 'Our Common Good', with Tine de Moor.

Dr Mohsen Mohammadi has won a Certificate of Merit for his PhD dissertation on the impact of recording on music of Iran.

In July 2018 a special issue of journal 'Memory Studies' has been published, edited by Prof Astrid Erll and Prof Ann Rigney.