Dear students and staff, The Honours Community Day is approaching, and we would hereby like to warmly and officially invite you to join us on this special day! Please find below an invitation with more information on the day itself, the exciting programme and a link where you can sign up at the end.  …

Door Robert Snitselaar   Op 31 januari 2023, een kille, regenachtige dag, betrad een delegatie van studenten van het Humanities Honourse Programme van de Universiteit Utrecht het terrein van Huis Doorn, de laatste rustplaats van de laatste Duitse keizer, Wilhelm II van Hohenzollern. In dit landhuis sleet hij de laatste 21 jaar van zijn leven….

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?   …

Door Eva Luberti. Tweedejaars Honoursstudent van het Humanities Honours Programme.   Toen velen van jullie het eeuwenlange volksfeest aan het vieren waren, genaamd carnaval, kon ik het niet vanuit Italië missen, dus besloot ik mij te wagen aan Carnevale di Venezia. Maar hoe is carnaval in Venetië ontstaan? Carnevale valt te ontleden als carnem levare….

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 student, Do you love to travel? Are you a motivated and curious student? Well, then the NWIB Summer School is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. The NWIB Summer School Facilitated by UU Honours College, this summer you can conduct engaging interdisciplinary research in Athens, Rome, or Florence. Exploring questions of cultural heritage, art…

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…

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…

Lily is a 20 year old Swiss/Swedish student of media and culture and a first year student at the HHP. What do you study? I study media and culture. Well, I’ve always had very broad interests, so I’ve always been interested in a variety of different fields and I could never really figure out how…

During the first plenary meeting of this academic year, Tessel Janse gave an inspiring talk about collaboration, which was also the theme of this introductory meeting. Discussing what collaboration means, not just for her, but also what it can and and should mean for (us) students, our universities and academia as a whole. You can…