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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.

From 18 March till 1 April 2018, historian Andrew Pettegree will be in Utrecht as a visiting fellow of the Centre for the Humanities.

This special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies

"Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination" approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective.

Eggo Mueller has been awarded a grant by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Committee to research the online circulation of audiovisual heritage.

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus.

This work explores the relationship between law and drama in Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Co-edited by Katell Lavéant.

Contemporary Choreography captures the essence of choreography in the 21st century, encouraging rigorous thinking and research. Co-edited by Liesbeth Wildschut.

Editors are Dirk van Miert, Henk Nellen, Piet Steenbakkers, and Jetze Touber.

Professor Dr Gloria Wekker, Professor Dr Philomena Essed and Dr Leo Balai together win the Black Achievement 2017 in the category Science.

Co-edited by Jeroen Salman, this book demonstrates how materiality, sociality and spatiality contribute to a better understanding of early modern book history.

This book, co-edited by Dan Hassler-Forest, is one of the first critical studies of Star Wars, with essays from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars got together to address emerging issues related to big data in a joint-effort