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

Store chain HEMA has announced to discontinue sex indications in children's clothing: no more “boys” or “girls” departments, but simply “kids”.

Alumni magazine Illuster interviewed Geert Buelens together with Director of Het Literatuurhuis Michaël Stoker about the visibility of literature in the city.

Het boek van Martine Veldhuizen is verschenen in de serie Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML 36)

The book explores the dynamics of Christian ritual practices in their relation to a broader cultural framework.

As of 1 august, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth has been appointed Head of Humanities at Utrecht University College (UCU) for the coming four years.

Jewish Love Magic is a monograph by Ortal-Paz Saar dedicated to the supernatural methods employed by Jews in order to generate love, grace or hate.

Open Access journal Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) offers a home to state-of-the-art academic scholarship on any aspect of the early modern Low Countries.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to 7 researchers from the faculty of Humanities.

The central question within JOIN is how we prevent exclusion and strengthen meaningful participation of all young people in society.

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, VIEW brings its readers a fully redesigned website and the release of its latest issue.

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.