Dear HHP Students, Since we are  already in may, the end of the academic year is approaching fast  and for many of you, that means completing your bachelor’s thesis. Congratulations on reaching this milestone! To celebrate the end of your honours journey, we are once again organising a closing ceremony. This year’s ceremony will take…

HHP visit to the Textile Museum in Tilburg  Dear HHP students, On the 9th of April we visited the Textile Museum in Tilburg, situated in the old textile factory of the city. We were with a group of seven women, and most of us travelled together from Utrecht central station to the museum. On arrival our shared interest in crafting immediately came to the surface as we were collectively intrigued by the yarn cones that were used as…

By Julia Vissers,   Dear HHP Students, On Monday, March 23, we attended the Shorts: The Present & A Lien program at the Movies That Matter festival in The Hague. We went as a group of five, which made it more intimate to reflect on the films together afterward. The program featured two short films…

  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….

By Elena Lamprou and Sophie Lammers Dear HHP members, On the 19th of June, we —alongside eight more HHP History students— visited the exhibition “Lebensborn: Birth Politics of the Third Reich” at Kunsthal Rotterdam. The exhibition is based on Angeniet Berkers’ homonymous book, which she compiled over a five-year period of research on archival material…

By Alya Khairunnisa, Sven Nome, Anna Ratkovich and Sonny Ngo   On Monday, 11th of November, HHP students from the department of Media and Culture studies received an invitation from its coordinator Rick Dolphijn to attend the opening of the More-than-Human Studies Lab Programme of the Centre for Sustainable Development, a collaboration between the University…

In the early morning of Sunday the 8th of December, I boarded the train to Paris to see the opera Dialogues des Carmélites that played at the Thêatre des Champs-Elysées at 5 o’clock that afternoon. At this moment, I am writing my Honours thesis on this opera by Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963), because I…

Little more than a month ago Titia Janssen, an Art History Honours student, told us all about her internship at Museum de Lakenhal and the exciting project she got to work on for her Masters thesis there: redesigning the Bakker Korff Room. An especially interesting task she got was getting to redesign the way in…

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…

Throwback to January, 26: The Biodiversity Workshop by the Humanities Honours ‘ The End of Evolution”? Biodiversity in the Historical Perspective of the “Anthropocene” course members.

Featuring two discussion panels by five biodiversity experts from our own Utrecht University and beyond, as well as the lecture by Matthias Glaubrecht, the workshop united Honours students, professors and researchers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. To get more insight on the details of the day, read up on the article about it in the Honours Community blog