Podcast · UvA European Studies · 🎓 What if it’s not teachers, but students, who have the best feeling for what the most important research is? Well, we’ve put the idea to the test. For this podcast,...

What is free of speech, and who is allowed to make use of it? In his book What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea, Fara Dabhoiwala traces the origins of free speech, examining for whom it...

Why do we like listening to some people more than others? In a world suffused by speech – of politicians, influencers, salespeople and pundits alike – that question seems more relevant than ever. Join...

Een ‘goede stem’ heb je niet zomaar, je moet je aan een heleboel ongeschreven regels houden. Wil je bijvoorbeeld rationeel overkomen? Praat dan iets monotoner. Deze en meer huidige standaarden zijn vo...

Ever wondered how images shape our reality? Join us in unraveling the transformative power of visuals – from protest imagery to social media memes – in mobilizing movements, influencing debates, and r...

This monograph examines the interrelationship between politics and modernist architecture in interwar Belgium, focusing on political, architectural, and administrative elites as propagators of new ide...

This article examines the reasons for Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s failure to become unanimously successful as a parliamentary orator in the nineteenth century. Bulwer-Lytton’s speeches were often praise...