Het systeem van wetenschappelijk publiceren stort nu wel heel snel in elkaar.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

These are the slides for my presentation Interventions in History Online, given at the sixt network conference of the International Network for Theory of History (INTH) that took place between 19-22 M...

(or: Why don’t we practice Carbon Reporting in Computational Humanities?) Oh, the debated question of whether personal or academic LLM use is environmentally problematic. Every once in a while, the…

This essay is a discussion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) 2016 working definition of antisemitism as a historical source on the politics of defining antisemitism in Europ...

The IHRA ‘working definition’ is confusing and divisive – forcing its adoption will not help protect Jewish students and staff, says David Feldman, director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Ant...

Het Duitse weekblad Die Zeit kwam een paar dagen geleden met een reportage over antisemitisme binnen Volt Europa, de moederpartij van Volt Nederland. Op Twitter circuleert een Nederlandstalige versie....

Politiek: In Den Haag zag Lamyae Aharouay hoe uiterst rechts normaal werd gemaakt door andere partijen. Ze was verbijsterd – maar bleef als journalist gefascineerd. Nu wil ze afstand: niet meer steeds...

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This is the book of abstracts of the workshop History of Digital History between East and West, which is held on 5-6 February 2026 at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the Univ...

Dit demissionair kabinet voert ingrijpende onderwijsbezuinigingen door, zonder benodigd mandaat. Dat moet stoppen, zeggen Rens Bod, Remco Breuker en Ingrid Robeyns.

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

AI assistants are increasingly used for navigating and analysing the contents of major archives. Applying Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to existing

António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by US The UN secretary general, António Guterres has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a near 18-month siege. Some of its soldiers have posted videos of civilians being shot, including in the town’s maternity hospital. Continue reading...

Dr Suleiman Qaoud at the Rantisi Specialist Hospital after Israeli attacks on the facility on 6 November 2023 (Photo: Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera) The doctors assumed that a well-marked hospita…

This workshop will address the history of digital history by enlarging the scope outside of the United States and Western Europe, taking into account crucial developments elsewhere which have often be...

Het Stadsarchief van Amsterdam, essentieel voor onderzoekers én burgers, staat op het punt een nieuw, ondoorgrondelijk zoeksysteem in te voeren. Dat zou grote gevolgen hebben, schrijven hoogleraren Ju...