Dear student, The Honours Community Day on May 16th is approaching, and an integral part of this event will be the student exhibition. This exhibition is the perfect moment for you to share an honours achievement that you are proud of! Do you have something that you would like to showcase to the UU honours community? This…

Dear students, On the 6th and 7th of June the University of Twente will be celebrating 15 years of Honours Education. They will be organizing an international conference aimed at students and educators alike about unleashing the potential of students in honours education. The event will contribute to the honours community by connecting educational innovators,…

Dear students, While some of you are most likely working on your projects for the HHP Research Seminar, we would like to highlight some of the projects from last year. In a series of upcoming blog posts we will share the experiences of students working on their projects. These stories will hopefully motivate and inspire…

Dear HHP students, We are kindly inviting you to join the presentation of the mini documentaries that the students in the Energy Transition in Historical Perspective course have produced.  The viewing takes place at Filmtheater Slachtstraat on 8 February between 19.00 and 20.00, followed by drinks. There is a limited number of seats available so please…

Dear student of the Programme, Maybe you’ve been made aware already, but if you haven’t: the honours student journal has changed its name from Ongehoord to Echo. Some international students within the programme thought the name “Ongehoord” indicated that the journal was for submissions in Dutch only. This is, of course, not the case; we…

Richard Calis has been working at Utrecht University since 2022 and has been HHP domain coordinator of History and Art History since this academic year, taking over from our current Honours director, Frans Willem Lantink. Richard has studied and worked in several places all over the world and is excited about the opportunity to introduce…

SAVE THE DATE: 26 JAN 10:00 to 18:00To all Honours students and -lecturers,  On the 26th of January, the students of the Good at Humanities-course: The End of Evolution are organizing a workshop centered around Biodiversity and the Anthropocene. The workshop will be held in a lecture room at the Drift and then Matthias Glaubrecht, author of the book…

Bonjour! As part of our portfolio, we (Michelle, JJ, Jill, Akke, Domien, and Floor) are organising a trip to PARIS🇫🇷. Join us on Friday 12 April as we board the train to Paris, on our way to three days full of interesting museums, walks through the gorgeous French capital, and, of course, ‘gezelligheid’. Some practicalities:…

Two weeks ago it was time for the annual Berlin trip of the HHP. On Friday the 10th of November the train to Berlin left at the early hour of 7 O’clock. At half past one our train arrived and we soon went to the “Three Little Pigs Hostel”, close to Checkpoint Charlie. Since the…

Writing letters is out of vogue; a shame, since writing letters is a beautiful way to communicate. Whereas writing Whatsapp and email is mostly pragmatic and superficial, writing a letter invites one to make a well-structured, thoughtful message.  During the Eureka penpal-activity, I will tell you about the use of writing letters, and how the…