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In this new book, Fenneke Sysling describes the way Dutch racial scientists tried to make sense of the human diversity in the Indonesian archipelago.

Suzanne Bogaerds-Hazenberg has been awarded a Research Talent grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Thirty Utrecht-based researchers have been awarded a Veni-grant. Among them are Dr Ao Chen and Dr Sita ter Haar, who focus on speech and language development.

This grant enables the young researchers to work on a project of their own for three years.

The volume on this enigmatic manuscript provides a unique window into early medieval Bavaria at a time of cultural flowering and political upheaval.

Frank Kessler and Sarah Dellman edited a special issue of the journal Early Popular Visual Culture.

In the series ‘Ethical annotations’, researchers and students of the Ethics Institute are listing all moral considerations linked to refugee admission

The online platform New Books Network has published an extensive interview with Ugur Ümit Üngör in the form of an hour-long podcast.

In his new book, Bas van Bavel presents a historical investigation into the rise and fall of market economies.

Master's students will work together to create an online exhibition of one of the oldest and most abundantly illustrated Middle-Dutch manuscripts.

In the prelude to the public KNAW symposium, several newspapers interviewed Tine De Moor on the chances and challenges of Citizen Science-projects.

Utrecht students have won first prize in the Facebook Global Digital Challenge with their campaign against extremism.

Both economic historians have been invited to join the Academia Europaea.

Mariken Teeuwen's new project offers a new view on scientific thinking in the medieval Latin West. The project has a vacancy for a postdoc.

HistoryIT will provide Utrecht University’s Media and Culture Studies Expertise Centre with hands-on digital heritage projects.

In 2017, Brera will be visiting researcher at the Immigration History Research Center Archives.

This special issue is based on the European research project 'Iconic Religion', in which Prof. Birgit Meyer is one of the principal investigators.

A delegation of students from Utrecht University will present their anti-radicalisation campaign #DareToBeGrey in Washington.

In 'White Innocence' Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racism coexisting alongside aggressive xenophobia.

This collection of 34 essays honours art historian Peter Hecht upon his retirement as "the great champion of public art collections".