University associate professor Mark Dingemanse was a guest as a sidekick in the programme De Nieuws BV on Radio 1, entirely dedicated to language. Mark was interviewed about his Vici project ‘Future of language’. Listen to the broadcast now via bit.ly/4bqlTB7! (in Dutch)

Publishing soon: Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe by associate professor Anna Geurts. This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers. Pre-order now via: bit.ly/4e38ErW.

From 1 September, Laura Manko will take up the position of Management Director of the Faculty of Arts! 🙌 Laura Manko succeeds Jolle Landman, who transferred to the Nijmegen School of Management on 1 February 2024. Read more via: bit.ly/4bTLd2B.

Assistant Professor in Psycholinguistics Susanne Brouwer was interviewed by De Gelderlander about how music affects your attention span in traffic. Her research showed that an unfamiliar language hinders you less from focusing on other things. Read more bit.ly/4civzgV

'Municipalities did not profit on a large scale from stolen Jewish property'. So says new research by a research group led by historians Wim van Meurs and Marieke Oprel into expropriated Jewish property. Read the whole Trouw article via: bit.ly/3KRaJtz

Congratulations to our PhD students Floris Cos, Wieke Metzlar and Marije van Lankveld! They will receive funding from the Doctorates in Humanities (NWO) programme that will allow them to conduct their own research over the next four years. Read more via: bit.ly/3VLeLKd

A recent article by Archeology Postdoc Janzic van Rookhuijzen and Merle Langdon (University of Tennessee) on an architectural graffito from Attica has been published in the American Journal of Archaeology 🏛️   Read the full article here: bit.ly/4euhuiy!

Hanneke Stuit (UvA) has written a praising review on the book that appeared on the occasion of Anneke Smelik's retirement, called Materials of Culture: Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies. Read more via: bit.ly/3KWNBK9

Professor Edwin van Meerkerk was honoured with the Best Practice Award #SustainaBUL, instituted by Students for Tomorrow, a national organisation for sustainability in higher education. ♻️ The award motivates van Meerkerk to continue with his mission. 💚👉 bit.ly/3Vy8VdS

Today is Keti Koti, the commemoration of the abolition of slavery. For this, historian Dries Lyna, in collaboration with forensic artist Kathryn Smith, has created a portrait of an Indonesian "former serf" who lived in Nijmegen 200 years ago. Read more: bit.ly/45I3Mog

Professor by special appointment Matthias van Rossum was interviewed by Het Financieele Dagblad about colonial history and what impact the king's apology had on the national slavery history commemoration year. Read the article via: bit.ly/4coZOn2 (for subscribers only).

What is the history of Dutch slavery? And where can we see the impacts of Dutch slavery today? 🎙️  The latest episode of the podcast 'In a Nutshell' explores Dutch slavery's history and its present-day impact with Dr Coen van Galen. Listen now: bit.ly/3La9Uwa 🎧

The Holocaust is a compulsory topic in secondary school curricula, but Professor of Holocaust Education Marc Van Berkel argues for a different approach. 'The topic is currently too politically sensitive to be effective against anti-Semitism'. Read more: bit.ly/4bJiBsc

Using computer-driven text-analyses of large-scale corpora, this project aims to reveal the extent to which fiction precedes or follows shifts in society. 📚👩 👉Read more: bit.ly/3SCIwuz Roel Smeets @radboud_uni NWO Nieuws #NWOVeni #Fiction #Emancipation

It will enable the study of how and why health disparities emerged. By shedding light on the past, it will offer new insights into why some health inequalities persist today 📚  👉Read more: bit.ly/3SCIwuz @timriswick, @radboud_uni @nwonieuws #NWOVeni #Research #Health

👏 #Recensie in Trouw van Filosofen te koop, vertaald door dr. Vincent Hunink van RICH: "Die vertaler heeft van deze tekst een pareltje gemaakt. Zijn Nederlands is speels, vrolijk en creatief. Voor grapjes en fratsen in het Grieks verzint Hunink slimme oplossingen." 💬