Weg van Lawaai app (freely) available in Apple app store
The Weg van Lawaai app can be downloaded for free here. It offers audio stories about the history of noise from, in and around the car, using GPS. You hear the voice of Rik van de Westelaken.
The app was created under the supervision of Karin Bijsterveld by Maastricht University (text), Beeld en Geluid (historical audio fragments) and Q42 (app) and is co-financed by the ArchiScienza Foundation (Fund for Architecture and Science).
Continuation Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music
Zuyd University, philharmonie zuidnederland and Maastricht University will continue their collaboration in the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM) for the next four years.
Over the past four years, the three partners have already worked together in the MCICM. Financially supported by the Province of Limburg, the partners conducted research into innovations in classical music practice.
Edited Volume: Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage
In the series ‘Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market’, initiated by MACCH, the volume ‘Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration‘ edited by Christoph Rausch, Ruth Benschop, Emilie Sitzia and Vivian van Saaze, analyses participatory practices to determine what can be learned through and from collaboration across disciplinary borders.
Maarten Doorman speaks about canon of philosophy in NRC and Trouw
On 15 September, the Dutch newspaper NRC published a conversation between Carlo Ierna (VU) and Maarten Doorman (UM) about changes in the canon of philosophy.
The piece discussed the following questions: Which philosophers should everyone know? Or do we need to get rid of the canon?
Read the article here (in Dutch).
Previously, Doorman wrote an opinion piece (in Dutch) in the Dutch newspaper Trouw against the abolition of a philosophy canon.
Revised Beginner’s Guide to Dutch Academia available
The Young Academy has presented A Beginner’s Guide to Dutch Academia. It is a revised edition of a guide for foreign researchers who would like to work in the Netherlands that was originally published in 2018.
The guide discusses Dutch attitudes to work, employment contracts and the structure of academia in the Netherlands, with its universities and research organisations.
Access the guide here.
Be aware of phone scams
Many young people with an international background are being digitally scammed. They receive a call from “a government agency” and are told that they are on an international arrest warrant list, or that they have to pay a big fine.
This is a scam, no government agency will contact you by phone. If you receive a phone call like this, hang up immediately. Call your bank and report it to the police.
Read on for more information, or click here.
Charlemagne Prize Academy Fellowship Programme 2022/2023
The Charlemagne Prize Academy Fellowship programme is open to graduates of all fields with projects and disciplines that offer concrete, innovative and feasible approaches to address the complex and sometimes contradictory challenges on a European scale.
This year’s topic is ‘Europe’s Path to Strategic Sovereignty — How do we achieve an equitable and resilient reset?’.
You can apply here until 5 September.
For more information, click here.
Christin Hoene interviewed by BBC World Service
The BBC World Service interviewed Dr. Christin Hoene on the life and work of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose for their programme The Forum.
The episode on “Radio waves and plants: the life of JC Bose” was broadcast on Thursday, 30 June 2022, at 11.06 am local time.
Click here to listen to the programme.
Danai Petropoulou Ionescu receives Daniel Heinsius Thesis Prize
Danai Petropoulou Ionescu had received this years Daniel Heinsius Thesis Prize during the 2022 Politicologenetmaal, organised by the NKWP and the VWP.
Each year, the prize is awarded to the best thesis MA Thesis in Political Science written at a Dutch or Belgian University.
FASoS T&L Blog on games in PBL
One of the key characteristics of PBL is its emphasis on active student engagement. One way of activating students in such a context is the use of games.
On 7 June 2022, Patrick Bijsmans and Anna Harris hosted an interactive Continuing Professional Development workshop aimed at exploring the possibilities that games offer in a PBL context.
In this latest Teaching and Learning blog, they provide a synopsis of this workshop.
