Anna Harris interviewed in Creative Language Technologies podcast
Anna Harris was interviewed by Roxana Girju for her podcast Creative Language Technologies recently. They spoke about health humanities, diagnostic technologies, artificial intelligence and collaborative ethnography.
Listen to the podcast episode here.
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.
Simone Schleper interviewed by UM
The UM website has interviewed Simone Schleper, environmental historian and science scholar. This interview has resulted in an article titled “Researching the Anthropocene: the age of human impact on earth“.
Schleper’s research looks at the history of science-based nature conservation in the period post-WWII, a period of rapid international development and economic growth that we call the age of the Anthropocene.
Lies Wesseling features on De Nieuwe Wereld Youtube channel
Lies Wesseling discussed the ins and outs, ups and downs of the internationalisation of university education on the Youtube channel De Nieuwe Wereld, episode 1003.
This video includes Wesseling’s conversation with Felix Huygen, chair Beter Onderwijs Nederland, and Ad Verbrugge, associate professor of philosophy at the Free University Amsterdam.
Lies Wesseling publishes Op-ed in Dutch newspaper Trouw
Lies Wesseling has publishes an op-ed on the internationalisation of university education in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, published on 7 September.
Access the article, written in Dutch, here.
Michiel Bron writes opinion piece in NRC
Michiel Bron wrote an opinion piece in the Dutch newspaper NRC on the pollution generated by uranium mining.
Read the entire article, published on 19 July and written in Dutch, here.
Mareike Smolka in Science & Belief in Society Podcast
Mareike Smolka was interviewed by Dr. Will Mason Wilkes and Dr. James Riley, Research Fellows at the University of Birmingham, for the Science & Belief in Society Podcast.
The podcast features scientists and scholars whose various disciplinary backgrounds contribute to understanding the social and cultural aspects of the relation between science and religion.
Listen to the episode here.
Joey Tang featured in Financieel Dagblad
Following the Dutch publication in Economische Statistiche Berichten by Joey Tang, Isabella Grabner, Sofie DeBroe and Hans Schmeets, Financieel Dagblad discussed the research in an article.
Read the FD article here (in Dutch).
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.
Michiel Bron interviewed by RTL Nieuws
For their daily news broadcast, EditieNL (part of RTL Nieuws) interviewed Michiel Bron, PhD Candidate in energy history, on the rescaling of Dutch coal-fired power plants in response to limited gas deliveries to Europe from Russia, the rising coal prices, and the possible similarities between the debates over the closure of coal mines during the oil crises in the 1970s and the closure of gas fields in Groningen today.
