HUMmagazine - News

This month Lorella Viola's book 'Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis' was published by John Benjamins.

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

Rosemarie Buikema, Katrine Smiet, and Berteke Waaldijk talk about unheard stories, historiography, and the enslaved Sojourner Truth.

Aoju Chen is involved in the research 'Where do I belong?' within the strategic theme Dynamics of Youth of Utrecht University.

An in-depth article by Kate Frederick, Sarah Carmichael, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.

Andrea van Leerdam has been awarded two American research fellowships.

This exhibition is intended to make people think about inequality in the field of gender and race.

On February 27, dr. Ugur Üngör (Political history) spoke in Trouw’s deVerdieping on the construction of a war archive for Syria.

On 26 February, Niels Terpstra gave his opinion in 'de Volkskrant' about the American army in Afghanistan.

On 7-9 march the Horizon2020 GRACE Conference: ‘Gender and Cultures of (In)Equality in Europe: visions, poetics, strategies’ will take place.

The Huizinga Institute is the National Research Institute and Graduate School of Cultural History. The institute has moved to Utrecht as of 1 January 2019.

Five out of six ICON research groups scored ‘very good’ on research quality. The quality of the Gender Studies group was even rated ‘excellent’.

The Gender and Diversity Hub is setting up a series of monthly lunchtime conversations around issues of gender equality and diversity.

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.