Humanities
Discover the world at the Faculty of Humanities.
Humanities reflect how people understand the world, how they interact with it and ‘create’ it. We do this by asking fundamental questions that sometimes seem far removed from current problems, but in fact form the basis of our contemporary experiences; for example, we research how people dealt with changes in the past and how they can guide them in the present. This enables us to determine the kind of future we can or should imagine for ourselves, or must work to bring about.
Research and education range from languages, cultures, area studies to history, philosophy, arts, and religious studies. We are driven by passion and curiosity about the world around us.
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Humanities in the media
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Maghiel van Crevel in New York Times: ‘Depictions of hardship are acceptable in Chinese poetry’
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Clodagh Murphy in Smithsonian magazine: ‘Emotion in Elizabeth I’s correspondence often carefully constructed by her secretaries’ -
Andrew Gawthorpe on France24: ‘Discussions with the CIA director may be more discreet’
Upcoming events
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Survival at Treblinka
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Composing alternative questions without disjunctions: Insights from Mandarin Chinese
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Governance Technologies and the Performative Reproduction of Delegated Imperial Authority: Multi-Actor Making, Enacting, Contesting, and Reproducing of VOC Rule in the Cape, Formosa and Ceylon, 1620s-1660s