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Pooyan Tamimi Arab explains in The Conversation that the lack of fair elections is causing many Iranians to refuse to vote.

Erik de Lange receives the Rubicon grant to conduct two years of research at King's College London, on the history of international cooperations at sea.

Media Scholars Nanna Verhoeff and Michiel de Lange give their perspective on the future of our (smart) cities.

The prize has been awarded to Deneer's research into nineteenth century art from Europe.

In the Washington Post, Ingrid Robeyns argues that it is morally impermissible to own more resources than needed to flourish in life.

Iva Vukusic spoke to different media outlets about Mladic' conviction and the aftermath of the war.

Diana Willemijn Helmich examines (the increase of) domestic violence in the Netherlands during COVID-19.

The least surprising news of the week from Syria is that Bashar al-Assad has won another seven-year term, says Ali Aljasem in an article for The Conversation.

Diana Willemijn Helmich and Emma Post question the way in which the media have written about women leaders' successful handling of the pandemic.

Britta Schilliing, Selin Dilli and Lukas Verburgt will become members of the NIAS fellows, a select community of independent thinkers.

The program encourages young researchers to enter into or develop interdisciplinary collaborations in order to achieve new fundamental research insights.

De Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung has awarded a fellowship to Reindert Dhondt.

This month, a research project about the Lausanne Conference was launched, with Ozan Ozavci as one of its convenors.

Bloomsbury published 'A Cultural History of Color', of which the volume on the Renaissance was edited by Sven Dupré.

With funding from the Netherlands Film Fund, humanities scholars from Utrecht University aim to make the Dutch film industry more sustainable.

On Sunday 2 May, dr. Janneke Raaijmakers passed away.

Judith Kas, Rense Corten and Arnout van de Rijt published about the role of reputation systems in digital discrimination.

Pim Huijnen and Pieter Huistra are interested in exploring what it means for history to be replicable, they explain in the podcast Road to Open Science.

In April, the volume Refugees and Religion edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter van der Veer has been published in an Open Access version.

In May, Routledge publishes an interdisciplinary volume on activism and memory.

De universiteitsbibliotheek is gestart met deelname aan de bèta evaluatie van een nieuw Text- en Datamining platform Constellate.

Els Stronks explains what is so special about the Dutch anthem in podcast 'Klassieke Mysteries'.

De Vita’s research explores the history and politics of Holocaust memory to point to the significance, and fragility, of international institutions

Prosody (for example, rhythm and accent) is the first contact that an unborn child has with language, the mother, and the outside world.

We need more than our current strategy to solve the corona crisis. Four historians, including Beatrice the Graaf, state the importance of a multidisciplinary approach.

Ozan Ozavci pleas for a top to bottom change to bring diversity to the Utrecht University.

A report of the workshop “Critical Views on Stereotypes: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”, which took place on February 24.

A knowledge and investment consortium has been awarded an €8 million grant to accelerate the application of innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Three artists were able to create a work inspired by the corona crisis with a contribution from Utrecht University, ZonMW and the Centraal Museum.

Martha Frederiks has been appointed extraordinary professor from January 1 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Alessandra Schimmel wrote a blog for Liesbeth van de Grift's Vidi-project about European consumers groups from the seventies onwards.

In an interview with Pointer, Belle Derks explains how couples choose a division of labour when they plan on having children.

The issue of Palestine has hardly been addressed, although silently, a consensus seems to arise on how it should be dealt with.

For research project Remembering Activism, Marit van de Warenburg wrote a blog about Black Lives Matter protest music.

Last year, Philippe Roepstorff-Robiano published his book about credits fictions, for which he received praise in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Thijs Weststeijn reflects on the influence of climate change on the way we think about cultural heritage in De Groene Amsterdammer.

Rutger Claassen talks about his life and work as a scholar interested in many fields.

Christian Lange and Walter Immerzeel have both received an Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research 2021.

Lorena De Vita co-wrote an article for The Conversation about the legacy of the Gulf War.

An international research team has managed to read a sealed 17th-century letter using X-ray microtomography and algorithms.

Frank Kessler wrote an essay on 'mise en scène' in the book 'Montage, Découpage, Mise en Scène: Essays on Film Form'.

The Britney Spears that features in our media and minds is a persona, a result of media representations and a product of the culture industry.

A new edited collection by Christine Quinan and Kathrin Thiele, on the topic of biopolitics, necropolitics, and cosmopolitics, will come out next month.

The design of a uniform food label which makes it much easier for people with a food allergy or intolerance to identify the information they need.

All units of TNO have a Strategic Advisory Board with representatives from industry, government and science.

This month, Rachel Gillett's new book 'At Home in Our Sounds' was published.

Eighteen Utrecht-based researchers received a so-called ‘Unusual Collaborations Grant’. The grant has the goal to encourage collaboration between various disciplines.

The History of Economics Society has awarded the Digital Humanities Lab a grant for the project 'Ontraq-H'.

Utrecht University involved in the formation of the report on possible abuses in intercountry/foreign adoptions in the past.

The book is edited by Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma.