Dear HHP Students, Mark your calendars! The annual Honours Community Day is happening on May 13th, 2026.   This year is special: for the first time ever, a team of your peers is taking the lead. They’re designing a day to highlight our community, the work we do, and give us all a chance to connect…

  Dear Honours Students,   The academic year 2025/2026 is already well underway, and we hope it has been full of knowledge, challenges and growth for all of you. We would love to hear about your experience in the Humanities Honours Programme.   This semester’s Onderwijsgesprek/Educational Talks will take place on february 11th, from 17:15-19:00. at Janskerkhof 2…

  Dear Humanities Honours students and lecturers,   The poster presentation and plenary meeting of Tuesday, January 20th, is fast-approaching! Our second plenary meeting of the year has the theme of Friendship throughout History, and will take place at the Playground, Vening Meinesz Building A (Princetonlaan 8a). This meeting is mandatory for all HPP students, not just first year students….

  Nostalgia: the magazine By Diede Mulder Group members: Jochem, Romee, Nove, Isis, Magda, Diede, Merel. For our Research Seminar project, we created a magazine together based on the theme of nostalgia. Everyone was free to follow their own interests within that theme, so the magazine ended up with a wide range of articles. It…

Location: Waseda University, Tokyo Field of study at home: Artificial Intelligence Courses in Japan: Business   Dear HHP students, Today, I’d like to talk about how I studied for a semester at Waseda University in Tokyo. At home, I study Artificial Intelligence, but in Japan I deliberately chose Business courses. At first, it felt a…

Dear HHP students, Would you like to contribute to an international conference for 3.5 days, help people find their way around, provide technical support, assist during excursions, and be part of a great team? From November 3 to 7, the 10th EMES International Research Conference will be held in Rotterdam and Utrecht. We are looking…

Dear Honours students, In the coming year we want HHP students and faculty to connect around finished and ongoing research projects. The first such event spotlights books that have recently been published by domain coordinators Natalia Petrovskaia (see: https://brill.com/display/title/64397) and Richard Calis (see: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674292734). If you’re interested in participating, continue reading! We are looking for…

Dear Honours students, To all of our new students, we heartily welcome you to your first year of the Humanities Honours Programme! And for all of our other students, welcome back! We hope you were all able to enjoy a wonderful summer and are ready to begin with what is doubtlessly going to be another…

By Aoife Buckley   To some people, a trip to Brussels is centered around the Atomium, EU buildings, or enjoying craft beers in a busy square of tourists buying overpriced magnets. I made a same day return journey to Brussels to visit the city archive, a carefully packed bag not for a weekend away, but…

By Wiebe de Groot Dear HHP members, As I am on the road to becoming a history teacher, I had the opportunity to take part in a very special project that I would like to share with you all: “Teaching controversial issues in History classrooms – a case study of student-teachers in South Africa and…