HUMmagazine - Research News

Last year, Feike Dietz and Laurens Ham researched the repertoire of Kinderen voor Kinderen.

Peter Coopmans has been asked to take on the administrative coordination of both the 'Nationaal Platform voor de Talen' and the national project 'Masterlanguage' in the coming years.

The jury appreciated that Koen Leurs his research focuses on the very acute challenge of enabling and supporting migrants and refugees’ participation and resilience in society by taking charge of the way they are represented.

Bram Bouwens discusses the history of the companies KLM and Tata Steel.

Beatrice de Graaf has joined the Academia Europaea, an international network of scientists.

Geert Buelens was a guest at Belgian radio stations Radio 1 and Klara to talk about his new poetry collection 'Ofwa'.

The Huizinga Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary in a variety of ways.

On 29 September, the Governing the Digital Society focus area organised a webinar consisting of a presentation by and Q&A with Catalina Goanta.

Mayors in the Netherlands are facing a growing number of threats, aggression and violence.

Anna Poletti was interviewed about her new book "Stories of the Self. Life Writing after the Book".

Preliminary data on the effects of COVID-19 reveal that existing inequalities have been intensified.

Lorena Sosa wrote a blog for the 'Gender, Diversity and COVID-19' platform on inequality in- and outside the corona crisis.

Joris van Eijnatten has been appointed as Professor by special appointment for Digital History.

Recently a special issue was published of the International Journal of Cultural Studies, co-edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Donya Alinejad.

This month an English translation of 'Tegen de terreur' by Beatrice de Graaf was published.

José van Dijck discussed the role social media played in the public debate immediately after the Covid-19 outbreak in the Netherlands in an interview with "The Network Pages". 

Paola Monachesi and Marina Turco spoke in Italian cultural magazine 'MicroMega' about two perspectives on the corona pandemic.

This book provides a qualitative analysis of the process of consultancy, to prove how intercultural communication can solve issues rising from multiculturalism in organizations and policymaking.

Following the outbreak of corona UNESCO called for a worldwide translation of their handbook "Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation".

This week, René Koekkoek's new book about revolutions around 1800 will be published.

Janneke Stuulen and Wendela de Raat have received Doctoral Grants for Teachers from the NWO.

Maranke Wieringa and Mirko Schaefer talk about algorithms and artificial intelligence in the 'VNG magazine'. In the podcast 'De Dataloog' Wieringa also talks about SyRi (System Risk Indication).

In August, the fifth and last part of the Aëtiana series, written by Jaap Mansfeld and Douwe Runia, was released.

Emile Wennekes wrote a piece on Charlie Parker in honour of what would have been Parker's 100th birthday.

Recently the book 'Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation' was published, edited by Barnita Bagchi.

This week Mathijs Peters' book 'Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers' was published.

This month Lorena De Vita's book 'Israelpolitik: German-Israeli relations, 1949-69' was published.

Annelien de Dijn explains on the website of "Time" why ‘freedom’ means something different to liberals and conservatives.

Sven Nyholm speaks about his new book "Humans and Robots".

In March Rowman & Littlefield Publishers published "Humans and Robots", a book by Sven Nyholm.

Surekha Davies compared the discovery of the ocean in the Middle Ages with the discovery of black holes now on the website of Aeon. 

Undoubtedly, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic is changing our most habitual normal hence we have to adapt to the so-called “new normal” immediately.

In August NYU Press published 'Stories of the Self', by Anna Poletti.

This month Harvard University Press publishes Annelien de Dijn's new book: 'Freedom: An Unruly History'.

Lieke Stelling's first book is shortlisted for the biannual prize awarded by Shakespeare's Globe.

NWO awards a Vici grant to research leader Tine De Moor for research into citizens initiatives.

Pepijn Corduwener en Arthur Weststeijn presenteren na twee jaar een herziene versie van hun boek 'Proeftuin Italië': 'Het Italiaanse experiment'.

Thomas Smits has won the Colby Book Prize with his book about Victorian newspapers.

Mauro Bonazzi was interviewed for Corriere della sera about the tensions between and relationship of the Netherlands and Italy.

By targeting those with preexisting conditions, the coronavirus reminds us which groups have had their health systematically devalued.

International findings suggest the pandemic has an unprecedented and complex effect on unpaid household and care work, with women taking on greater care and household tasks.

From my perspective the COVID-19 pandemic has brought striking light to the question of inequalities.

Eva-Maria Troelenberg co-edited a special issue of the 'International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity'.

Iva Vukusic spoke on several platforms about the legacy of and her research into war crimes.

Ann Rigney writes about the meaning of monuments on the website of 'Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe'.

Corona is not simply a temporary crisis that we will leave behind and forget so as to move back to normality.

Henk Kummeling, Keimpe Algra and Ted Sanders join calls for the immediate release of the GEMMA student.

Gandolfo Cascio has won the 2020 "Premio Giuseppe Antonio Borgese".

Ann Rigney discusses her career and research at 'The Connecting Memories Podcast'.

This publication addresses the sustainable preservation of the massive, untapped heritage resource of the magic Lantern.