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.
Konstantinos Kogkalidis received the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars’.
Assistant Professor of History of International Relations Peter Malcontent explains the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in various media. An overview of developments.
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.
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.
Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages has a new book published, an interdisciplinary study of medieval thinking about the city in text, image, and material culture.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: rituals surrounding bereavement.
Jip Lensink contributed to the book Wereldkerken in Nederland. She recorded stories of migrants from Evangelical and Pentecostal churches as well as international churches.
Multilingualism in Academia and Educational Constellations is a new book exploring multilingual policies, theoretical concepts, and academic writing in multilingual contexts.
In Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney offer new insights into the potential of archives to become sites of renewed critical engagement.
Naomi Ellemers: 'With this money, we can spend the next 10 years researching how to strengthen social connections in society without undermining other connections.'
In May and June 2024, Sandra Ponzanesi is Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIB) Visiting Professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
Payal Arora has been invited be a member of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV).
In his new book Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music, Michiel Kamp offers an account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music.
The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement, co-edited by Jamie Draper, shines a light on the barely touched upon topic of internal displacement.
In her new book, Liliane Stadler examines Switzerland's role in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 and why and how this role changed in this period.
The graphic novel, a public engagement activity, aims to tell the complex history of peace-making in the inter-war era in a fun but still thought-provoking manner.
Data donation presents a new and unique approach to collecting digital trace data. The team of Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen are conducting two pilot studies involving Netflix and ChatGPT.
How can and should the government respond to the current low participation in the vaccination programme? Ethicists Marcel Verweij and Roland Pierik (Maastricht) offer advice in their new book.
Stefan Gaillard and Martijn van der Meer have been listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Science and Healthcare in Europe, in recognition of co-founding the Journal of Trial and Error.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: fights and feuds.
Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and others, aims to find out how to best make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present.
Johan Sonnenschein and Els Stronks receive the grant to expand SchrijfLab.nl to include writing education for secondary special needs education, cluster 4.
Niels Kerssens has been awarded an NWO Impact Explorer grant for his research project on teaching in the digitising classroom and critical digital literacy.
Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures Payal Arora co-wrote a United Nations University report with guidelines for training AI models through artificially generated data.
