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.
Newly appointed Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures Payal Arora explains why it is inevitable to look at the Global South when looking at AI and digital cultures.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: professors’ salaries.
Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, co-edited by Iris van der Tuin, discusses over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice.
The interdisciplinary consortium Deliberate Genre Literacy in Secondary Education will receive almost 1 million euros from the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research.
Doing Digital Migration Studie, edited by Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, offers a comprehensive entry into a variety of debates, interventions, and discussions.
Hamas was given a deadline by Israel: all hostages must be released before Ramadan. Islamologist Joas Wagemakers explains the dilemma in which Hamas (and Israel) finds itself.
Oana Ciuraru (a former student of Dutch Literature and Culture) and Tara Tankink (Public Administration and Organisational Science) win a Jan Brouwer Thesis Award.
very month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the international students.
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.
A group of international scholars, under the name STRATEGIES, is committed to making the European gaming industry cleaner and greener in the coming years.
Genocide researcher Iva Vukušić discussed the South Africa-Israel case at the International Court of Justice and ruling with The Guardian and RTL Nieuws.
A project team led by Utrecht University examined how companies can monitor the functioning of their AI applications. Project leader Iris Muis tells more.
Johan Schot talks about the Deep Transitions Lab. In the lab, impact investing and the question of how investing could tackle challenges such as climate change is studied.
In Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, a diverse group of authors explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the first female student.
In New Line Magazine, Assistant Professor in Political History Laura Almagor wrote an article about the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization.
Sezer’s thesis is titled Sustaining Resistance, Cultivating Liberation: The Enduring Bond of Rooted-Resistance-Companionship between Palestinians and the Olive Trees.
Samenwerking tussen Terramar Museum op Bonaire en Universiteit Utrecht. Het doel: geen tentoonstelling voor cruisetoeristen, maar een postkoloniale expositie voor en door Bonairianen.
Anne Kustritz explores slash fan fiction communities during the late 1990s and early 2000s as the practice transitioned from print to digital circulation.
Conceptualizing, Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Writing Interventions offers a new perspective on the challenge of writing interventions for research purposes.
In Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550), Andrea van Leerdam shows the importance of woodcuts.
Emeritus Professor of Dutch Literature to 1500 Paul Wackers was invited to write a short holistic book about the fox in medieval culture for a general public.
In The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema, Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino tackle the understudied relationship between music en comedy cinema.
Science historian Hieke Huistra talked about the history of international December celebrations with Sinterklaas and Father Christmas in the leading role.
Sanne Frequin explains how the overpainted painting The crucifixion (around 1425) was restored to its original state, without damaging the current work.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: activism in academics.
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.
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.
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.