Utrecht University commemorates the lives of students and staff who were persecuted by the Nazi regime during the Second World War through Stolpersteine.
As international unrest persists, defence budgets grow, and the Dutch Ministry of Defence may expand its investment in knowledge and research, questions about the relationship between education and the military are becoming increasingly pressing. This dialogue, part of a series on the relationship between academia and the defence sector, examines what the militarisation of education actually entails in practice, and how Utrecht University might address this issue.
Jacob van de Kerkhof will defend his thesis on how content moderation on online platforms, within the framework of the Digital Services Act, affects freedom of expression.
