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At the end of April 'Capital Women', written by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor and Sarah Carmichael, will be published by Oxford University Press.

Prof. Aoju Chen has been granted a Research IT innovation fund for developing an Automatic Analysis of Speech Prosody (AASP) tool.

The Dataworkplace connects the world of governments with the world of research and education.

Frank Hakemulder will give his inaugural lecture at Stavanger University on March 11.

It also appears that the Black Death affected all layers of the population, but that women had an increased chance of dying.

This is the first time that the development of language use in Dutch novels and newspapers has been studied over a longer period of time.

Leonard Rutgers, Ortal-Paz Saar and Digital Humanities Lab have been awarded a 22,000 Euros grant from the Innovation Fund for IT in Research.

As of January Ralph Sprenkels and Chris van der Borgh are involved with a capacity building project in Cauca, Colombia.

Recently 'Syntax of Dutch: Coordination and Ellipsis', a book by Hans Broekhuis and Norbert Corver, has been published.

On 27 December online magazine Foreign Policy published an article in which Ugur Üngör tells about his Syria Oral History Project.

A close-up of the similarities and differences between the bachelor education and University College Utrecht and the Liberal Arts and Sciences programme

This month 'Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama', a book by Lieke Stelling, has been published by Cambridge University Press.

Gandolfo Cascio has received a grant of 45.000 euros from the MiBAC (Italian Ministry for Culture and Heritage).

A special edition of open access journal 'Politics and Governance' has recently been published.

This special issue focuses on the impacts of gender registration and the possibilities for abandoning such practices. Deadline for submission: 4 February 2019.

Joas Wagemakers on NOS.nl on the availability of books written by radical Muslims in jail.

Science historian Hieke Huistra talked about the history of December celebrations with Sinterklaas and Father Christmas in the leading role.

Koen Leurs, Sanne Sprenger, Ena Omerović and Hemmo Bruinenberg developed a program called “Media literacy through making media”.

Palgrave Macmillan published 'Gems in the Early Modern World. Materials, Knowledge and Global Trade, 1450–1800', edited by Michael Bycroft and Sven Dupré.

On 16 October 2018 Brill published 'The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture', edited by Karl Enenkel and Koen Ottenheym.