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Koen Leurs made three video portraits of refugees in the Netherlands for his project ‘Young Connected Migrants’.

Under the title 'Diaspora, Migration and the Sciences: A New Integrated Perspective' Rutgers will be leading an international research group of specialists.

Koen Leurs co-edited a special issue of renowned journal Information, Communication & Society that features research generated by the annual AoIR conferences.

Call for Presentations for the international conference 'Urban cultures, Superdiversity and Intangible Heritage'

Media scholar Linda Duits about why the discussion about sexualization in the media is problematic.

Programme director Chantal Kemner talks about the future of the strategic theme Dynamics of Youth.

A conference on 'Forgotten Knowledge', jointly organised by the Max Planck Centre in Berlin, the Descartes Centre, the Vossius Center, and Huygens ING.

For the fifth international conference on the history of mathematics education, there is an open call for papers. Abstracts need be submitted before 1 April.

Karin van Es and Mirko Tobias Schäfer edited The Datafied Society. It offers a collection of scholarly investigations into computer-aided methods and practices.

Laurien Crump is awarded the George Blazyca Prize for her monograph 'The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered: International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955-1969'.

Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor will be both a visiting scholar and a visiting educator. She will contribute to designing the broad bachelor programmes TCS and LAS.

Seventeen students of Utrecht University return with success from the Model United Nations. No less than nine students received individual awards.

Eight Humanities programmes have been ranked best in their field, according to Keuzegids Masters 2017.

In this TEDTalk Bob de Graaff talks about the power of the government and the individual regarding intelligence.

The historians acquired the grant for the programme 'CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe'.

Rolf Strootman will research the role of Iranian elites in the empire of Alexander the Great and his successors for a period of six months in Los Angeles.

The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing. Paul Franssen received an honourable mention.

Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman is co-author of the report initiated by the European Commission for Education and Culture.

Medievist dr. Els Rose receives Vici grant worth one and half million euros.

The evening was attended by members of the Polish embassy and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of course students and employees of Utrecht University.