HUMmagazine - Research News
22 July 2019
History Provides a Critical Thinking ‘Toolbox’ for Students.
19 July 2019
The Rubicon programme is intended to give young, highly promising researchers the opportunity to gain international research experience.
19 July 2019
Write, paint, draw or photograph a creative response to Ali Smith’s 'Autumn'. Deadline for submissions: 20 October 2019.
12 July 2019
'The Lion King' introduces us to a society where the weak have learned to worship at the feet of the strong.
12 July 2019
Ali Aljasem published an article in 'The Guardian' about the war in Syria.
12 July 2019
BRILL recently published 'Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750', a book edited by Sarah Moran and Amanda Pipkin.
8 July 2019
Last month '1989 and the West. Western Europe since the End of the Cold War' was published by Routledge.
5 July 2019
Joas Wagemakers wrote about the legal battle between imam Youssef Arkhouch and major Marcouch of Arnhem in Reformatorisch Dagblad.
1 July 2019
ATHENA is a portal in development in which an enormous amount of information on biodiversity in the Netherlands is compiled.
28 June 2019
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known to privilege words over images. This book shows, however, that the reality is more complex.
28 June 2019
On 12 June the Datafied Society and the Centre for Humanities hosted the lecture 'The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism'.
24 June 2019
Rachel Gillett explains why the role of women in the Ku Klux Klan has so often been ignored.
24 June 2019
Two Utrecht University projects from have received a funding from the NWO programme PHDs in the Humanities.
21 June 2019
Economic historian professor Bas van Bavel has received the NWO Spinoza Prize of 2.5 million euros, the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands.
20 June 2019
Last week, Rutger van der Hoeven received his doctorate for his research on global visual memory.
20 June 2019
Last week, the special issue of Stedelijk Studies 'Towards a Museum of Mutuality' has been launched.
17 June 2019
For his paper 'No Security, Except in Destruction: Transnational Threats, International Anxieties and the French Invasion of Algiers'.
17 June 2019
The first book in the new Routledge series ‘Knowledge Societies in History’ (series editors: Sven Dupré and Wijnand Mijnhardt) will appear in August.
17 June 2019
This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
17 June 2019
Awards for extraordinary academic achievements and social involvement
10 June 2019
On 19 March Brill published 'The Banishment of Beverland', a book by Karen Hollewand.
6 June 2019
In June the book 'My Mother's Mother's Mother' will be published by Leiden University Press.
3 June 2019
Utrecht University and Eindhoven University of Technology are joining forces by establishing a joint Fair Energy Transition Center.
3 June 2019
On 6 June this book by David Onnekink and Gijs Rommelse will be published by Cambridge University Press.
3 June 2019
In 'De publieke tribune', Dan Hassler-Forest discussed the public debate.
3 June 2019
This book by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
31 May 2019
During the weekend of 10 to 12 May, students participated in a Bellingcat Bootcamp, organized by Residenties in Utrecht.
27 May 2019
We spoke with Frank Brandsma and Dan Hassler-Forest about the new movie, and the life and work of Tolkien.
27 May 2019
Salma Fayyad wrote her master thesis about female detainees in Syria. Their activism and heroism is often ignored.
27 May 2019
De Universiteit Utrecht heeft vier zogeheten focusgebieden aangewezen waarin in totaal €1,6 miljoen wordt geïnvesteerd.
20 May 2019
We spoke with Eva-Maria Troelenberg about the film and about the growing popularity of the art documentary in general.
20 May 2019
On 24 May 2019 Prof. José van Dijck will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund.
16 May 2019
Last month the book 'America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80' was published by Routledge.
13 May 2019
On 1 May 2019, Hans Van de Velde has been appointed professor of 'Sociolinguistics, with special attention to the language situation in Fryslân'.
13 May 2019
Jaap Verheul has been appointed as Professor Transatlantic Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen.
9 May 2019
Ingrid Robeyns wrote an essay on occasion of the Twelve Stars project, titled 'For a EU-wide tax on air travel to fight climate change'.
9 May 2019
Joas Wagemakers joined Bureau Buitenland on May 7th to discuss the recent steps Jordan is taking on the global stage.
9 May 2019
A conversation with Mariëtte van den Hoven and Catrin Finkenauer about Three Identical Strangers and ethics within science.
6 May 2019
On 24 May Routledge publishes 'The Commons in a Glocal World', a book co-edited by Tine De Moor.
6 May 2019
In June Camebridge University Press publishes 'Epitaph for an Era', a book by Mayke de Jong.
6 May 2019
On April 25th, Joas Wagemakers appeared in Nederlands Dagblad to discuss the popularity of political Islam in Muslim countries.
2 May 2019
Rick Dolphijn has been selected as a member to the International Advisory Board of the "Taoxichuan China Arts and Sciences" Contemporary Arts Centre.
26 April 2019
In residents’ initiatives that aim to boost a city’s climate resilience, municipalities aim to focus more on facilitating, according to UU scientists.
25 April 2019
Evelyn Wan receives a Research Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for her dissertation 'Clocked! Time and Biopower in the Age of Algorithms'.
22 April 2019
An interdisciplinary research team from Utrecht University will evaluate the city’s local approach to radicalisation.
21 April 2019
Trineke palm explains on NOS.nl why a European army is not coming (for the time being).
18 April 2019
Screening of the documentary City of Two Springs by the Centre for Global Challenges.
16 April 2019
Ewout van der Knaap received the Austrian award for his many years of achievements in the field of Austrian literature in the Netherlands
12 April 2019
Prof Dr Rosalie Iemhoff has been appointed Professor of Formal Reasoning on March 1, 2019.
12 April 2019
Brepols Publishers recently published 'Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack', a book by Emile Wennekes.