News
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’ 22 March 2023
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manusc...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens 21 March 2023
It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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Successful On-Campus Master’s Experience Day: ‘It will help me to make a good choice’ 20 March 2023
The Faculty of Humanities’ On-Campus Master’s Experience Day was a pleasantly busy event. The information sessions and corresponding information marke...
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Food destruction and depopulation. How the Dutch East India Company gained a clove monopoly on the Ambon islands 17 March 2023
Nutmeg, mace and cloves: spices the Dutch East India Company (VOC) wanted to get its hands on. PhD candidate Tristan Mostert conducted research into t...
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Home magazines of yesteryear: Upholsterers were the interior designers of the eighteenth century' 17 March 2023
Today, anyone wanting a new look for their living room watches a home decorating programme or buys an interior design magazine. In the eighteenth cent...
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'The use of online translation machines in healthcare settings may involve certain risks' 16 March 2023
Researcher and lecturer Susana Valdez investigates how migrants make use of online translation technology in medical situations. Her research suggests...
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' 16 March 2023
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight ye...
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China? 14 March 2023
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence...
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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored' 13 March 2023
What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lec...
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Digital Winter School: Time to brush up on those digital skills! 09 March 2023
The 2023 Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium and Digital Winter School took place, 30 Jan – 2 Feb 2023.
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Student Mitchell takes part in water council elections: 'Young people don't know how important their vote is' 08 March 2023
History student Mitchell Wiegand Bruss is taking part in the water council elections. Whereas until recently he had no idea what the governing body st...
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Lauren Antonides wins Roggeveen thesis prize 07 March 2023
Alumna Lauren Antonides has won the Roggeveen Prize for her thesis on the regional identity of Zeelandic Flanders. She will receive a sum of 1,000 euros.
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Ammodo Science Award 07 March 2023
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel is one of this year's laureates of the Ammodo Science Award. The award includes a sum of 350,000 euros that she ...
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Successful Open Day for Humanities: ‘Here you feel how it really works’ 06 March 2023
Full lecture halls, a crowded information fair and a queue for coffee in the basement: during the Open Day, the Faculty of Humanities was inundated wi...
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field' 02 March 2023
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in...