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A report of the Participatory Urban Interfaces conference on technology and city design that took place in Utrecht on 14 June.

With the grant Anya Luscombe-Serlie will do research in the U.S. this coming Fall semester for the project 'Eleanor Roosevelt and Liberal Arts Education'.

With the first English translation of the Missale Gothicum, Els Rose opens up the unique and colourful world of late antique and early medieval liturgical life.

This special issue deals with how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and radically intervene in our understandings of place.

The Utrecht Data School developed the Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA) to trace ethical issues in data projects.

The online platform Radio Garden is nominated for two Webby Awards. Voting is open until April 20.

Koen Leurs co-edited a special issue of renowned journal Information, Communication & Society that features research generated by the annual AoIR conferences.

Karin van Es and Mirko Tobias Schäfer edited The Datafied Society. It offers a collection of scholarly investigations into computer-aided methods and practices.

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.

Eight Humanities programmes have been ranked best in their field, according to Keuzegids Masters 2017.

The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing. Paul Franssen received an honourable mention.

Medievist dr. Els Rose receives Vici grant worth one and half million euros.

This book, edited by Michael Burke, presents innovative research on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science.

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

The Tanner Lectures aim to contribute to the intellectual and moral life of humankind. Rosi Braidotti's talks are jointly titled 'Posthuman, All Too Human.'

This book, edited by Marie-Christine Kok-Escalle, is the first to take a close look at how French was used outside of France, in personal and private life.

Birgit Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele edited this vocabulary to understand critique as a much broader practice than merely a textual one.

Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice sets out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural practices and groups

Nintendo makes smart moves that tie in with our nostalgia, but why now? René Glas (Media en Performance Studies) gives his views.

Mayke de Jong and Irene van Renswoude edited a special issue in which they explore the public debate in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Western society.