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As of 1 august, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth has been appointed Head of Humanities at Utrecht University College (UCU) for the coming four years.

This book argues that the ability to adapt, innovate and learn from the past is crucial for the success of intelligence organizations. Co-edited by Eleni Braat.

Jewish Love Magic is a monograph by Ortal-Paz Saar dedicated to the supernatural methods employed by Jews in order to generate love, grace or hate.

Open Access journal Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) offers a home to state-of-the-art academic scholarship on any aspect of the early modern Low Countries.

In a blog for the Peace Palace Library, Ugur Ümit Üngör compares Syria and Iraq with Timothy Snyder's theory of the European bloodlands between 1933 and 1945.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to 7 researchers from the faculty of Humanities.

The Birdcage of the Muses is the first book-length historical study of the golden age of Ptolemaic cultural and scientific patronage.

The project Mediawise by making media has been accepted within the route Resilient and Meaningful Societies of the Dutch National Research Agenda.

Dr Asker Pelgrom (Cultural History) is appointed as the new head of the History section at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. 

The central question within JOIN is how we prevent exclusion and strengthen meaningful participation of all young people in society.

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, VIEW brings its readers a fully redesigned website and the release of its latest issue.

A 'Massive Open Online Course' made by researchers within Future Food Utrecht

A report of the Participatory Urban Interfaces conference on technology and city design that took place in Utrecht on 14 June.

Ali Aljasem, Conflict Studies and Human Rights student, has been nominated for the ECHO Award 2017.

For the faculty thesis awards of Humanities, eight theses from the departments and research institutes have been nominated this year.

With the grant Anya Luscombe-Serlie will do research in the U.S. this coming Fall semester for the project 'Eleanor Roosevelt and Liberal Arts Education'.

Ortal-Paz Saar received a grant for the purpose of organising an international Winter School entitled 'Digital Humanities and Jewish Epigraphy'.

With the first English translation of the Missale Gothicum, Els Rose opens up the unique and colourful world of late antique and early medieval liturgical life.

In order to finalize a big archaeological research project in Athens, the researchers have started a crowdfunding campaign.

UGlobe, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, has launched a new website.