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Winter will conduct research on the way people use language to think and communicate about collections.

This book, co-edited by Beatrice de Graaf, considers what changes may need to be made in order to keep Dutch national research at the top of the pack.

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.

Prof. Eva-Maria Troelenberg joines Utrecht University on March 1, 2018 as chair for modern and contemporary art history.

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.