Dear students and colleagues,   The Honours Community Day is approaching, and it’s shaping up to be a fascinating event! This is your chance to experience the honours community like never before, so don’t forget to save the date and keep an eye out for sign-ups!     What is the Honours Community Day?   …

Dear honours students,   On the 13th of April, you are cordially invited to visit the permanent Escher exhibition in Het Paleis, The Hague, together with a group of students. Escher is a cornerstone of Dutch art; he fused mathematics, Arabic mosaics and lithography into astonishing creations. Although he wasn’t very well-known during his lifetime,…

Dear students, During the Honours Community Day on May 10th, we will once again award the most inspiring honours teacher with the honours Teacher of the Year award! With this award we want to appreciate and stimulate the great work honours teachers are doing within our university. And the best part is: The candidates for the…

Limited spots available! Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/zZJiqN2ZMz March 23 2023, 19:30-21:00 The doors open at 19:15 Utrecht, Janskerkhof 2-3 0.21 Throughout history, colonists have looked upon lands inhabited by native peoples and declared it their own. Now, scholars are using new lenses to uncover previously suppressed histories of environmental damage during colonial times. As we find ourselves…

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…

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…

Beste HHP studenten en -docenten, Het mag dan wel the season to be jolly zijn, but fast away the old year passes. So ye lads and lasses, Save this Date! De eerste plenaire bijeenkomst van het nieuwe jaar zal plaatsvinden op dinsdag 24 januari (17:00 – 19:15), Parnassos café, Kruisstraat 201. Deze bijeenkomst is verplicht voor alle honoursstudenten. Het thema van de…

Hallo allemaal! Nu kerst steeds dichterbij komt, wordt het tijd om samen met je klasgenoten te genieten van cultuur. Dit jaar, tussen alle notenkrakers van internationale balletgezelschappen, heeft het Nederlandse Nationale Ballet een neoklassieke voorstelling gemaakt, getiteld ‘Dawson’. Hoewel we een strijd tussen ratten en soldaten en een zoete streling van de suikertaartfee zeer waarderen,…

11 November is the day… that the history honours group left for Berlin! After a meetup at Utrecht Centraal in the early morning, we traveled to the Hauptbahnhof Meininger Hotel. There we dropped all the luggage before walking towards East Side Gallery. This walk, which lasted for about an hour and a half, allowed us…

See below for English Beste scriptanten,   Heb je het honourselement van je scriptie al uitgekristalliseerd, of zit je nog in een verkennende fase – met te veel doorgestreepte ideeën in je notebook? In beide (of andere) gevallen is het een goed idee om eens, onder het genot van een drankje, bij te praten met…