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The Utrecht Data School was present at the annual congress Overheid 360°, a platform for data-driven solutions in public administration

This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it.

This week the book 'Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium', edited by Alexander Badenoch, was published.

Dr Mohsen Mohammadi has won a Certificate of Merit for his PhD dissertation on the impact of recording on music of Iran.

In July 2018 a special issue of journal 'Memory Studies' has been published, edited by Prof Astrid Erll and Prof Ann Rigney.

In August the book 'The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age' has been published by Cambridge University Press.

This book offers an innovative take on the role of intellectuals in Europe through a postcolonial lens.

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Karí Driscoll and Jessica Pressman edited the volume 'Book Presence in a Digital Age'.

Prof. dr. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is guest editor of a special issue for the journal 'Comparative Literature', which launched on September 1.

Lawyer Stefan Kulk and data specialist Mirko Schäfer are critical of the 'link tax' and proposed copyright filter.

Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi received a NWO grant for her international research project 'Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics'.

In August a Japanese translation of dr. Ewout van der Knaap's 'Uncovering the Holocaust' has been launched by publisher Misuzu Shobo (Tokyo).

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

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.

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

The Special Collection 'Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe', published in Social Media + Society is edited by Koen Leurs and Kevin Smets.

ERC Advanced Grant for Ann Rigney, professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University.

Sandra Ponzanesi, leader of ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, organised the conference during her visiting professorship at Columbia University.

Koen Leurs and Alison Harvey have co-edited a special issue with a selection of works presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference.

Els Rose has been appointed Professor Late and Medieval Latin at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication starting from 15 February 2018.