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This workshop aims to explore the diversity of temporalities of the ancient city through the lens of religion.

The submission deadline is 13 December.

Historian Jelte Olthof is interested in the origins, workings, and influence of the US Constitution. How does the 1787 Constitution function in present-day America? An America that is rapidly changing and where, in 2024, a female president may be elected for the first time.

Our aim is to explore the topic of cultural interaction through the lens of inscriptions. The conference focuses on language and on how the choice of language functioned in its original context as a way to manage the common ground, and thereby the mutual relations, of the parties involved.

The submission deadline is 21 October 2024.

How do you archive the internet? What are you going to keep and what are you not going to keep? And who decides this? These are questions that Susan Aasman thinks about on a daily basis. The media historian and Professor of Digital Humanities at the UG is a strong advocate of preserving the digital cultural heritage. ‘Eighty percent of the history of the internet is already gone.’

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Lars de Wildt, to fund his project 'Reorienting global gaming: how Western games adapt to Chinese worldviews.'

This workshop will shed light on the discussions, and will seek to understand the main dynamics that will shape the future energy policy, regional cooperation and sustainable development. We will contribute to the scholarship on renewable energy security, climate change and energy transition both empirically and theoretically.

The submission deadline is 25 August 2024.

We invite you to participate in a day of exchange and reflection about the ways digital ethnography can be used in research that is oriented towards public engagement and societal impact.

The submission deadline is 30 September 2024.

Sixteen thousand years ago, people already made art for their enjoyment, had advanced technologies, cared for one another, and adored their dogs, who they kept as their companions. ‘They were civilized human beings like you and me,’ says Inanna Hamati-Ataya, Professor of Global International Relations at the Faculty of Arts.

Dr Marc Esteve Del Valle, Dr Rachel Johnston-White, and Dr Jelte Olthof from the Faculty of Arts have each been awarded a research grant from NWO. The grant is part of the Open Competition XS program and is worth up to 50,000 euros.

Recruiting, retaining, and promoting women is a problem for the Ministry of Defence. With her research, PhD student Kim Bootsma shows that this has been going on for decades and that, initially, the Ministry of Defence sustained this problem.

Musicologist and music philosopher Chris Tonelli is fascinated by unusual music genres and their influence on people. ‘I love music that encourages people to create something themselves.’

Suzanne Manizza-Roszak, Assistent Professor English at the Faculty of Arts has received an Impact Explorer grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her postcolonial literary research and the project to translate the results into social impact.

UG researchers Ritumbra Manuvie, Pieter de Wilde, and Lisa Gaufman look ahead to the elections in India, Europe, and the United States, respectively. This week: Lisa Gaufman.

UG researchers Ritumbra Manuvie, Pieter de Wilde, and Lisa Gaufman look ahead to the elections in India, Europe, and the United States, respectively. This week: Pieter de Wilde. He predicts that the European elections will be as boring as always.

Professor of Health and Humanities Rina Knoeff and assistant professor of Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Early Modern History Karen Hollewand make a case for gender health equality between men and women in medical sciences. ‘I believe we need to add some nuance to the huge tirades against the patriarchal society.’

Since ancient times, connections between Iran and China have flourished through trade and literature. Today a large amount of extant tangible and intangible cultural heritage exists in both Iran and China attesting to this shared history. Given its historical significance and contemporary relevance, the goal of this conference is to bring together scholars considering these common ties of cultural heritage, as well as how they are situated in contemporary academic, political, or cultural debates.

The submission deadline is 15 May 2024.

Millions of women worldwide use apps that provide insight into their monthly cycles. The makers of these apps promote their products as tools for women to better understand their bodies and gain a sense of control. But do the actual users of these apps feel the same way? That is what Lisa Stuifzand investigated in her Master's thesis. She, along with her thesis supervisor, Dr Rik Smit, a lecturer in Media Studies, then turned the thesis into a scientific publication.

Karène Sanchez-Summerer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies, has been awarded a grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, the French equivalent of NWO), for the research project PredicMo, which will study preaching. The project, which starts this year and will last until 2028, is a collaboration with the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille.

The terminology used by newspapers in reporting on climate change has undergone significant changes from 1995 to 2019. Newspapers from different parts of the world are employing terms that convey a growing sense of urgency. However, much of the reporting on this global phenomenon remains focused on the causes and solutions within national borders. This is revealed by research conducted by Stijn Eikelboom, MSc, Dr Marc Esteve Del Valle, and Prof Malvina Nissim from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, which they are publishing in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Carole Hillenbrand’s seminal work, The Crusades Islamic Perspectives was published 25 years ago. In the time since its publication, Islamic experiences of the crusading phenomenon have been repositioned as a central element of crusader studies. Yet questions remain about how the field moves onwards from here. The workshop will highlight and further develop the latest advances in the study of materiality, objects and artefacts, art history, intellectual history, historiography, translation studies, the history of emotions, digital humanities, memory and remembrance, and medievalism.

The deadline for abstracts is 11 April 2024.

What are the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and the implemented measures for citizens’ trust in politics and science? What lessons can policymakers in Europe and elsewhere draw from this to tackle a potential next pandemic? Benjamin Leruth, researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, researched these questions in five European countries. He uses so-called citizens’ juries, small groups of engaged citizens that hold discussions and make recommendations to national and European political bodies. ‘Policymakers should have structural discussions with citizens about important political themes.’

Lars de Wildt researches the similarities between gaming and religion. In the article, he discusses factors such as music, social community and aesthetics.

Dr Saskia Peels-Matthey, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, has been appointed as a member of The Young Academy.

Karène Sanchez-Summerer, Professor of Middle Eastern History at the Faculty of Arts is organising the sold-out Studium Generale lecture: 'Gaza in Context' on 14 December, together with Pieter Nanninga, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and Karim El Taki, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Politics.

This two-day research workshop will explore new global intellectual histories of geopolitical thought, with a special focus on figures outside the traditional canon and crises of environmental, technological, and international orders from the 1890s to 1960s.

The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2024.

They keep piling up – legal cases involving comedians, cartoonists or social media users who are taken to court for an inappropriate joke, meme or cartoon. Cultural scholar Alberto Godioli is working on a toolkit for (and with) judges to help them adopt a balanced, systematic approach in legal cases.