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…

Dit bericht is alleen bedoeld voor de Humanities Honours Studenten die hun programma zijn begonnen in het academische jaar 2021-2022. Ben je eerder of later gestart met het HHP? Dan vragen we je vriendelijk om deze mail te negeren.   Beste Humanities Honours Studenten die hun programma zijn begonnen in het academische jaar 2021-2022,  …

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…

Why coaching? Everybody can be confronted with doubts, insecurities, lack of motivation, stress, etc. You don’t have to face these challenges alone. The trained coaches of the Online Coaching Centre are ready to talk to you and look for other ways to deal with things. They support you in your personal development and contribute to…