What is the difference between a journal and a gazette? And what is a hornbook? The new online Glossary of Early Modern Popular Print Genres offers answers.
Vernacular Books and Their Readers, edited by Andrea van Leerdam et al., explores approaches to study European vernacular books and reading practices in the 15th-16th centuries.
It is up to the government to keep AI in check, researchers Fabian Ferrari, Antal van den Bosch, and José van Dijck advise the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
This handbook, edited by, among others, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, places objects and bodies at the centre of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.
A post-revisionist approach on European imperialism: Ozan Ozavci on his research into European interventions in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant’s ability to invest in land.
On The Conversation, Assistant Professor Frank Gerits writes about the five recent coups in Africa and how the French president Macron comes into play.
Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity Rosemarie Buikema will deliver her farewell lecture on 10 October. We meet her in her study, between boxes and piles of books.
Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about Utrecht University's long history. This time: the hazing.
Emeritus Professor Bob Becking recently published this new examination of the 33rd book of the Hebrew Bible, which offers a new theory of its composition history.
Available in open access, this work edited by Professor Ann Rigney and researcher Thomas Smits, zooms in on the role of photography in the memory-activism nexus.
In The Conversation, lecturer Morten Byskov, Assistant Professor Jeroen Hopster and Júlia Isern Bennassar write about the recently passed climate law on the Balearic Islands.
Teachers from the Faculty of Humanities and the School of Law teach together in the new interdisciplinary minor Language, Law and Culture at Utrecht University.