Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: wining and dining at Utrecht University.
From 2025 to 2027, a new project will bring Roman history to life across nine locations in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Saskia Stevens reveals more.
Gertjan Plets leads the new international project Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations, which examines the colonial heritage of universities.
Rigney’s has showed that “cultural memory forms the foundation of our identity and social awareness, while also being a subject of debate and even conflict”.
The research focus area Sport & Society concludes with a special, digital magazine. But this is certainly not the end of Sport & Society as a theme in research and education.
Pooyan Tamimi Arab is awarded a Vidi grant for research on secularisation in Iran: how do Iranians truly feel about religion, atheism, and the separation of mosque and state?
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: historical budget cuts.
Islamic Sensory History engages with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the history of Islamic societies.
This book, edited by Thijs Weststeijn, among others, foregrounds women as creators, patrons, buyers, and agents of change in the arts of the Low Countries.
Kári Driscoll translates Teresa Präauer's ‘Tier werden’ into ‘Becoming Animal’, which explores cultural zoology and the evolution of words, images and identity.
To ensure that Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities is future-proofed, the faculty's board is taking serious measures in the coming years. These measures should help maintain breadth in teaching and research, while addressing the faculty's financial deficit.
This month, the research for Dramaturgy for Devices begins. In this project, researchers and artists are working on the behaviour and communicative skills of robots.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: student housing.
Assistant Professor of History of International Relations Peter Malcontent explains the situation in the Middle East in various media. An overview of developments.
Professor of German Ewout van der Knaap has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz: a high German distinction. An interview about his commitment to German language and culture.
How can we expose both the environmental and the social impact of planetary crises? And what are the pros and cons of using AI to create new (scientific) knowledge?
Van Dijck was awarded this honorary doctorate on the recommendation of the Faculty of Humanities for her work in the fields of media studies and digital society.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the singing culture of students.
This summer, Kathrin Thiele, Danielle van den Heuvel, Birgit M. Kaiser, and Cadence Kinsey have been appointed as Professors at Utrecht’s Faculty of Humanities.
Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention is the new publication by Mirko Schäfer and Karin van Es.
The Open Cities Platform announces the launch of their Monthly Research Seminar, an engaging and collaborative space designed for UU researchers and students to present and feedback research.
Konstantinos Kogkalidis received the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars’.
In Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean, Erik de Lange highlights security within international relations.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor Bob Becking publishes the first volume of Sheffield Phoenix Press’s Trauma Bible Commentary van Sheffield Phoenix Press series.
Following the rocket attack on a football field in the Golan Heights, Joas Wagemakers explain the crux of the situation with the possible consequencess on NU.nl.
Timeline | Five scholars provide a step-by-step explanation of the history and background of the current Israel-Hamas war, known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: the university community.
Annette Markham is Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. In this interview, she discusses her research.
Utrecht researchers developed a broader method to measure welfare: the Better Well-being Index (BWI). This year, broad welfare in the Netherlands increased.
This volume brings together eight essays by eminent scholars, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation.
Laura Almagor has written the chapter ‘Jewish Territorialism and 'Other Zions'’ in the Routledge Handbook on Zionism which will be published this month.
In the context of Constructing the Limes, objects from the PUG collection will be made available digitally and the most remarkable will be exhibited at Castellum Hoge Woerd.
A multidisciplinary team of UU researchers investigated the screening, data-extraction and examination of smartphones of asylum seekers at the start of the asylum procedure.
