Dear students, Our honours community is facing a lot of uncertainty this year, which is why it’s more important than ever to come together, connect, and inspire one another. Save the date: May 22, 2025 📅 for the annual Honours Community Day! Here’s what to look forward to: ✨ Student exhibition showcasing the exciting work honours education makes possible….

By Titia Janssen – Honours student Art History Have you ever wondered what it would be like to intern at a museum? Let me take you through my experience over the past three months at Museum de Lakenhal. As a student of art history, this internship offered a unique opportunity to closely experience the life…

A few weeks ago, Bo Davids went to visit the archives in Bruges to glean more information and materials for their Honours Thesis. Her thesis concerns the multifaceted relationship between the Belgian city of Bruges and the Burgundian Valois duke Charles the Bold (r. 1419-1467). She explores the diplomatic and symbolic relationship between these actors…

Dr. Natalia Petrovskaia has been working at Utrecht University for several years and has been HHP domain coordinator of History and Art History since 2022. Here, she is constantly developing the programme, the students and herself. Natalia is a true medievalist and is working on several projects to further immerse herself in that era. Her…

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…

Dear Honours students, In less than two weeks, the biodiversity workshop with a lecture by Matthias Glaubrecht will take place! We cordially invite all of you to join. The biodiversity workshop will take place from 10:15AM at Drift 21, room 032 and the day will end with a lecture by Matthias Glaubrecht on The End of…

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…