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The European Commission published the results of Bas van Bavel's ERC project on Western European societies coping with rural hazards and disasters (1300-1800).

Uğur Üngör wrote a blog for Oxford University Press on how studying mass murder can affect the researcher in profound ways.

Special Issue of PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 8.1 (2018), edited by Birgit Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele.

The Stevin Prize of 2.5 million euros is an individual award intended to foster knowledge transfer and serve as a token of appreciation in this regard.

In the Movies & Science series we approach authenticity from three angles: art, nature and food. Organised by Studium Generale and Centre for the Humanities.

The New Jerusalem is the latest book by poet and punk legend Patti Smith. This bilingual English-Dutch prose poem was translated by Onno Kosters.

Frederic Kaplan's Time Machine FET Flagship CSA proposal, which the Descartes Center co-authored, may continue to the second round.

Liesbeth van de Grift will examine the contribution of consumer organisations to increased public participation within the EU.

The Media and Austerity examines the role of the news media in communicating and critiquing economic and social austerity measures in Europe since 2010.

How the media has been complicit in sustaining free market capitalism.

JLEO is a prestigious journal in the field of Law and Economics.

Iva Vukusic won the ASN Award for her paper 'Paramilitary Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Insights from War Crimes Trials'.

Professor Neil ten Kortenaar, University of Toronto, will be a KNAW Visiting Professor attached to the Comparative Literature section in 2018-2019.

The book explores diffraction as a quantum understanding of difference and a new critical reading method. Editors: Birgit Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele.

On 4 April 2018 Carlo Giordano defended his PhD thesis at the Università Cattolica of Milan.

In this book, Merlijn Hurx argues that transformations in building organisation in 15th century Northern Europe laid the foundations for modern architecture.

UYA-Members Susanne Knittel and Joâo Trabucho Alexandre collaborated in an interdisciplinary masterclass.

In this programme, all 14 Dutch universities work together to secure the Netherlands’ leading international position in human-centred information technology.

Constantin Ardeleanu wrote a biography of John Stokes, the first British commissioner in the European Commission of the Danube (1856-1871).

Today the U.S. will open the embassy in Jerusalem. American diplomats in Jerusalem will be crucial to diffusing the tensions.