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Monthly Archives: February 2023

Symposium “Underexposed Perspectives on Climate Change”

Climate change is happening right here and right now.  You can look at climate change through a lot of different lenses. Common ones are the economic perspective and the environment perspective, but there are also perspectives that don’t get a lot of attention. The underexposed perspectives.   On the 6th of March, Tom Middendorp, Raki Ap…

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The Graduate Inequality Review Call For Papers!

Do you have a paper lying around that you are proud of, a paper to be read by more than just you and your teacher? Now might just be the time to dust off that PDF file and send it over to The Graduate Inequality Review. The Graduate Inequality Review, a student-led journal from the…

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Honours Yearbook Survey

This post is only meant for the Humanities Honours Studens who started in the academic year 2021-2022. If you started earlier or later with the HHP, we kindly ask you to ignore this message.   Dear Humanities Honours Students who started in the academic year 2021-2022,   We, Lisa Pais, Naomi Livius, and Anne Jaegers,…

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De Logica Van Magie

Van Game of Thrones tot Harry Potter: magie is al lang niet meer alleen voor nerds. De boeken en films staan in een lange traditie van magisch denken. Waar komt onze fascinatie voor spreuken, spoken en fantasiedieren vandaan? Volgens wetenschapshistoricus dr. Daan Wegener (UU) is magie zeker geen onzin. In het verleden was het een…

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