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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.

Whether he wins or not, Geert Wilders has successfully managed to put Islam at the centre of the Dutch elections.

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.

This book by Rolf Strootman systematically charts the socio-political and cultural memory of the Persian Empire and defines them in relation to one another.

This book, edited by Michael Burke, presents innovative research on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science.

Symposium Ecogames: Game Research meets Sustainability

In October 2015 the focus area Game Research awarded its first seed money grants to 10 interdisciplinary teams. The results turned out to be very diverse.

The new international academic programme NEW FACES asks the question what we can learn from Shakespeare’s world about the current crisis in Europe.

In this book, David Onnekink reinterprets the view that the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), was a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV.

The Tanner Lectures aim to contribute to the intellectual and moral life of humankind. Rosi Braidotti's talks are jointly titled 'Posthuman, All Too Human.'