UNE in the News

Nederlandse universiteiten zouden veel meer kunnen doen ter bevordering van de academische vrijheid wereldwijd, zeggen onderzoekers Ellen Rutten en Dorine Schellens. ‘Dit land dat zich beroept op tradities van gastvrijheid en tolerantie, loopt ver achter in het ondersteunen van onderzoekers en studenten in nood.’

The Gratama Foundation Geven accepted the award on Thursday 22 June at the Academy Building. The Gratama prize for young scientific talent is awarded annually; in odd years to a researcher from Leiden and in even years to a researcher from Groningen. The prize is provided by the Gratama Foundation, a family fund that has … Gratama Science Award 2023 – Leiden University

The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten. Dorine Schellens has been tirelessly active during the past year in helping and supporting refugee colleagues from Ukraine, Russia and … Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023

As pastoral idylls become sites of war, gardens evoke political memories for Ukrainians and Russians alike.

Für 36 Stunden hat sich Russlands Präsident sehr schwach gezeigt, als er Söldner-Führer Jewgeni Prigoschin gewähren ließ. Wie konnte es dazu kommen, und wie geht Wladimir Putin inzwischen mit dem Aufstand um?

By starting the war in Ukraine, Putin triggered a feedback loop of political nemesis. Every action he takes now contributes to his own destruction.

“The erection of statues of Horthy demonstrates that a paradigm shift is taking place without recourse to original ideas and yet is nonetheless successfully reshaping memory discourse,” our Research Affiliate Andrea Peto writes in her chapter in Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory.

Der Beinahe-Angriff der Söldnergruppe Wagner auf Moskau wird von Experten weltweit als starke Schwächung Putins gewertet. Ähnlich sieht es auch Prof. Jan Claas Behrends vom Potsdamer Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung im Gespräch bei SWR2.

The Hungarian historian Andrea Peto was forced into exile following the rise of the Orban regime. There’s a method, she says, by which illiberal forces seize control of a democratic country.

Oekraïners die met Russen samenwerken riskeren reputatieschade, en dat merken ze ook op de universiteiten in Nederland.

The optimism of my colleagues working in higher education that illiberalism will not impact tenured academics, their academic freedom and the status of higher education in the global higher education landscape – or rather their sleepwalking approach to illiberalism – seems to be unfounded.

Cunning strategies for gender studies: What can you do when nothing can be done? Can the hangman be an ally of gender studies?

The first episode of the podcast De Goede Gesprekken explores the impact of the Russian war in Ukraine on scholars in need and highlights the contributions of academics at the University of Amsterdam in supporting them. The first segment features a conversation between Dean Marieke de Goede and UNE’s Ellen Rutten, discussing UNE and the mentor program.

A new European university is being founded to help students, academics, artists and dissidents in need. One of the founders is Ellen Rutten, an Amsterdam-based specialist in Slavic studies. “When the war in Ukraine broke out, it was clear that we had to do something.”

Een nieuwe Europese universiteit helpt studenten, academici, kunstenaars en dissidenten in nood. Een van de oprichters is de Amsterdamse slavist Ellen Rutten. ‘Toen de Oekraïne-oorlog uitbrak moesten we echt iets doen.’

Ksenia Sobchak interviewed UNE’s Alexander Etkind, who mentions our university in the making and the importance of helping scholars in need from many different countries. From 01:03:50 onwards.