Vernacular Books and Their Readers, edited by Andrea van Leerdam et al., explores approaches to study European vernacular books and reading practices in the 15th-16th centuries.
It is up to the government to keep AI in check, researchers Fabian Ferrari, Antal van den Bosch, and José van Dijck advise the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University’s long history. This time: the University Library.
This handbook, edited by, among others, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, places objects and bodies at the centre of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.
A post-revisionist approach on European imperialism: Ozan Ozavci on his research into European interventions in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant’s ability to invest in land.
On The Conversation, Assistant Professor Frank Gerits writes about the five recent coups in Africa and how the French president Macron comes into play.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University's long history. This time: the hazing.
Emeritus Professor Bob Becking recently published this new examination of the 33rd book of the Hebrew Bible, which offers a new theory of its composition history.
This travelling exhibition by Utrecht University students and others, chronicles history through the lens of Sranantongo, Suriname’s most commonly spoken language.
Available in open access, this work edited by Professor Ann Rigney and researcher Thomas Smits, zooms in on the role of photography in the memory-activism nexus.
In The Conversation, lecturer Morten Byskov, Assistant Professor Jeroen Hopster and Júlia Isern Bennassar write about the recently passed climate law on the Balearic Islands.
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits.
Are you conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research in the field of human-centered artificial intelligence, or are you planning to? Then be sure to apply by 8 September.
The influence of expert witnesses in the courtroom does not only depend on the available scientific knowledge or technology, international, comparative research shows.
Professor of Early Modern Dutch Literature Els Stronks and Professor of Theatre Studies Maaike Bleeker receive funding to work on scientific and societal breakthroughs.
Een interview met Jeroen Salman over het EDPOP-project en hoe de bibliotheek en het Centre for Digital Humanities hieraan hebben bijgedragen. An interview with Jeroen Salman about the EDPOP project and how the library and the Centre for Digital Humanities contributed to the project.
First Dutch female student Anna Maria van Schurman played a special role in the cultural exchange between the Netherlands and China, new art history research shows .
Culture scholar Vincent Crone, together with ten students, conducted research on ethnic diversity and representation in the film and AV sector on behalf of the Ministry of Culture (OCW).
In Heerlen, during Heel Heerlen Graaft, residents join archaeologists in their search for Roman remains in their city. A good example of citizen science.
Climate change means that we have to deal with history in new ways, Professor Thijs Weststeijn argues in his new book The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate.
In the world of AI regulation, power is not evenly distributed. PhD candidate Arthur Gwagwa writes in Global Policy about Africa’s position in this world.
The music of the Dutch revolutionary years around 1800 has been brought back to life. What it sounded like? Listen for yourself and let Renée Vulto tell you more.
“A centenary is quite something, of course,” lecturer Nike Stam says. “So we would like to celebrate it generously with everyone!” Expect workshops, lectures and musical surprises.
Assistant Professor in Linguistics Jakub Dotlacil receives a two million euro ERC Consolidator Grant to build a research group for his Memory Access in Language.
The first years of your life are the most important time of your life in terms of development. It is a time in which the brain is highly flexible and much is set in place for the years after that. Neonatologist Jeroen Dudink, linguist Aoju Chen and pedagogue Pauline Slot agree on this. They are the three community presidents who work with post-doctoral researcher Eline de Groot on the build-up of the Early Childhood community.
In Philosophy Now, Assistant Professor Maurits de Jongh discusses the insights of philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) to help understand the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Erik Meinema has received the dissertation award of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) for his dissertation Regulating Religious Coexistence.
“We need to invest in people, laws, and technology,” José van Dijck briefly summarises the message of her mini-masterclass ChatGPT for the Tweede Kamer.
From 1 April, Paul Ziche has taken over the directorship of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities from Bert Theunissen.
