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In Nieuwsuur van 19 juli belichtte hoogleraar Turkse talen en culturen Erik-Jan Zürcher de maatregelen die president Erdogan na de mislukte coup heeft genomen.

A freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650) has been published by the Viabundus project.

On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…

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During the summer, we organize a summer school for researchers who want to learn about communicating science to diverse audiences. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, postdocs and other early career researchers. The Summer School is open for all disciplines in science, including social sciences,…

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Prof. dr. Wim Willems van het Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS) doet samen met Anne van Mourik onderzoek naar het leven van Ru Paré, de vrouw die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog 52 Joodse kinderen redde.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

Op 2 juni heeft Mariana Gkliati deelgenomen aan het debat ‘Europe on Trial' in De Balie.

While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

The International Conference "Her Book: Women and Book Ownership in Early Modern Europe" will take place at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) on 17-18 June 2022. For more information: aurelie.griffin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr.

On the 21st and 22nd of June, the students of the Research Master Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Groningen organise an online conference on the topic of otherness.

The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Premodern Otherness: Encounters with and Expressions of the Other in Classical Antiquity, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods, Autumn 2022. Deadline: 1 February 2022.

The Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university with a multi-disciplinary Medieval Department that offers MA and PhD programs in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies as well as in Cultural Heritage Studies. Deadline: 1 February 2023.

PhD Position in ERC-funded Project on Historical Future Expectations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (University of Antwerp) (deadline for submission: 26 April 2020).

The conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond" will take place on November 14 and November 15 2024 in Antwerp and online.

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

Naast het feit dat angstproblemen veelvoorkomend zijn en het daarom belangrijk is om hier effectieve preventieve programma’s en behandelingen voor te ontwikkelen, is dat in deze tijd extra relevant.

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

In 1968 werd Japan opgeschrikt door studentenprotesten. Precies vijftig jaar later zijn de effecten daarvan nog voelbaar. Een interdisciplinaire groep onderzoekers sprak erover op de Universiteit Leiden.

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In het NOS journaal op Radio 1 van dinsdag 6 februari spreekt Wil Roebroeks over de ontdekking van 171.000 jaar oude graafstokken. Het bestaan van dit gereedschap werd al langer vermoed, maar er waren nog niet eerder exemplaren van gevonden.

Britse en Australische onderzoekers hebben het tandsteen van een paar Spaanse Neanderthalers aan een DNA-analyse onderworpen en wat blijkt: de Neanderthaler eet groenten en bijna geen vlees.

Between the early thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries CE, the Sultanate of Cairo affected the balances of power elites across and beyond the regions of Egypt, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean. Modern historiography has for a long time been determined by the idea of this sultanate as a highly…

‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ is a European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that will support 13 PhD researchers undertaking projects on late medieval and early modern books. These PhD researchers will be spread across the following institutions: University of Galway (3 positions),…

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Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

Glycosidases (GHs) are enzymes responsible for the degradation of carbohydrates and play many roles in human health and pathophysiology. Often, abnormal levels of glycosidase activity are markedly linked to human pathologies.

Promotor: M. Danhof Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

Lodi Nauta (RUG) organizes a workshop, titled "Humanist and Scholastic Roots of Early Modern Philosophy (1400-1700)" at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. It will take place from 19 until 24 April 2022 and it is open to maximum 15 students in philosophy or intellectual history at (R)MA or PhD-level.…

On Thursday, 30 September 2021 (14.00-17.00), Dr Linda Briggs, Staff Tutor in History at The Open University (UK) will organize a graduate workshop on interpreting royal entries in their European, national and local contexts at Utrecht University. This workshop is especially useful for research master…

This one-day conference, organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), invites you to share your research ideas and results in practices of comparative medievalism in arts and culture. We therefore invite contributions of papers that analyse cultural representations of the…

The Kent University Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies organizes its annual MEMS-Festival. The festival is held in Canterbury on June 14 and 15. It offers both postgraduate and final year undergraduate students the chance to present their research in a professional academic environment to…

On 19 November 2021 the 41th Erasmus Birthday Lecture will be delivered by Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge University). In the morning she will offer a masterclass, entitled 'Commonplacing as a map to early modern culture', for 15 MA students and PhD candidates. Deadline for application: 1 November…

A two-day workshop will be organized in Tilburg in December 2023, which has the goal to bring together scholars working on urban history, legal history and economic history of the later medieval and early modern period. The workshop focuses on the sovereignty of cities of trade. Deadline for abstracts:…

Spatial humanities are developing fast at the moment. This international expert meeting intends to bring together specialists from different disciplines in order to discuss possibilities, challenges, and next steps for spatial humanities that are concerned with late-medieval and early modern urban history…