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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard' 08 December 2022
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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Independent research into House of Orange-Nassau and Dutch colonial history 06 December 2022
King Willem-Alexander has commissioned independent research into the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The research will t...
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated 06 December 2022
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing ...
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' 06 December 2022
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversit...
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds' 05 December 2022
We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration t...
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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues 05 December 2022
That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body) 05 December 2022
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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Publication: Engaging with Everyday Sounds by Marcel Cobussen 01 December 2022
'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, e...
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’ 28 November 2022
As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey,...
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Theatre as scientific experiment at OverActing festival: 'Practice can help you further in your historical understanding' 25 November 2022
What did plays look like in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries? With the new OverActing theatre festival, university lecturer Jed Wen...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa 25 November 2022
‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia 25 November 2022
A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...
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Alumnus Simone participating in National ThinkTank: ‘A good imagination is essential’ 25 November 2022
Say biodiversity loss, and then say humanities. These two terms may not seem an obvious combination, but alumnus Simone Scholte explains that her Film...
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database 25 November 2022
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Facu...
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023 24 November 2022
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for su...