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In the Groningen landscape, you will find few signs that directly refer to gas extraction. Utrecht University scholars Gertjan Plets and Nikkie Wiegink aim to change this.

In Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space, Haidee Kotze, among others, brings together leading researchers.

Lisanne van Weelden, Hans Westerbeek, and Hans Hoeken receive a Netspar Grant for their research on the new Dutch pension system.

This year, seven Utrecht researchers will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. The European Union provides this subsidy of an average of 2 million euros to researchers who have made their mark in science.

By making the source code freely available, the CDH Research Software Lab has made their text and data mining tool I-Analyzer accessible to everyone for free.

In Dissertating Geography, Assistant Professor of Cultural History Mette Bruinsma examines the history of geography from a bottom-up perspective.

Read this book by Roberta Biasillo, 'An Environmental History of the Pontine Marshes: Terracina from the Unification to the Integral Reclamation (1871-1928)' in English, in open access.

The book, edited by Helwi Blom, among others, examines ten of the most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe (1470-1800).

Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the legendary Professor Donders.

“The chair focuses on the development of social security in the Netherlands in an international perspective”, Vonk says.

Call for contributors to the textbook project of Jan Pieter Beetz (the Utrecht University School of Governance) and Selin Dilli ( Department of History and Art History).

De Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht ondertekent het Manifest Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed en sluit zich aan bij dit netwerk.

Call for interested scholars in setting up a (systematic) literature review in the fields related to bottom-up initiatives.

Would you like to gain insight into the statements of a politician or party? The Dutch Parliamentary Speeches, from 1815 to 2022, have now been added to the text search and exploration tool I-Analyzer.

To increase the familiarity of the concept of ‘Open Science’, the team of the Open Science Escape Room project designed the online escape room Last Contact.

A summary of seminar 1/4: 'Social Capital and Citizen Collectives'.

Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics is edited in honour of the retirement of Emeritus Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity Rosemarie Buikema.

From 1 January 2024, David Onnekink will hold the Special Chair in Christian Ecological Thinking at the Theological University Kampen-Utrecht three days a week.

While deepening a pont in his garden, Erwin Jesterhoudt stumbled upon a piece of an old wall and discovered, using a digital historical map from Utrecht University, it was an 18th-century fortress wall.

The first CHARM-EU Open Science Recognition Award was given to Saskia Stevens. “This is not just an award for me, but for our entire Constructing the Limes team.”