In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL). ARCNL represents a unique form of public-private collaboration in science, aligned with a political climate that actively encouraged partnerships between academia and industry. How did this collaboration come into being, and ho...

De van oorsprong zestiende-eeuwse Bibliotheca Enchusana of Librije van

Enkhuizen is een van de oudste institutionele bibliotheken in Nederland die nog

steeds in situ wordt bewaard. Sinds het begin van de zeventiende eeuw bevindt

de collectie zich in de Westerkerk in Enkhuizen. De Librije is een belangrijk

boekwetenschappelijk monument, maar biedt ook een uniek venster op het

verleden van de stad.

Daphne Wouts reconstrueert de eeuwenlange geschiedenis

van de bibliotheek aan de hand van histor...

In een vroeg zelfportret uit 1628 heeft Rembrandt een Wolf-Cut kapsel en een gouden oorbel in zijn linkeroor. Tegenwoordig zou deze jonge schilder zich wellicht als queer of ‘questioning’ identificeren, en hij was zeker niet de enige. Seks, Drugs en Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandts Tijd beschrijft hoe welvarende jonge mannen, zoals Rembrandt, volwassen werden tijdens de economische bloei van de vroege zeventiende eeuw. Op basis van nieuw onderzoek illustreert historicus Benjamin Roberts in dez...

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country’s long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945. With freedom reclaimed, a wave of joy and hope swept through the nation, finding its most powerful expression in the stirring liberation songs that resonated across the land. These songs, an evocative transatlantic soundtrack of freedom, captured the spirit of the time through music, lyrics, and dance, c...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

De bloederige oorlog in Gaza tussen de Israëliërs en de Palestijnen gaf Hans

Luiten en Sven de Graaf aanleiding om hun boek Begrijp jij het Midden-Oosten

nog? van een grondige update te voorzien. In deze geheel vernieuwde editie

maken de schrijvers het Gaza-con¿ict, de oorlog in Syrië en andere twisten in

het Midden-Oosten begrijpelijk voor iedereen. Met eenvoudig taalgebruik

voorzien Luiten en De Graaf de vaak onnavolgbare actualiteit van een

verhelderende historische context. Begrijp ji...

Qualitative analysis resembles a puzzle; you are confronted with a heap of data and you find yourself wondering: what should I do next? Ideally, you have already started the analysis before the amount of data becomes overwhelming. However, realistically, qualitative research inevitably generates a large amount of data that requires thorough organization, interpretation, combination and manipulation.

A Companion to Qualitative Analysis introduces the concept of Thick analysis, a triangulation ...

In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a ...

The yearbook offers an international, interdisciplinary, innovative platform for scholarly research in the field of contextual Biblical interpretation. Embracing contextuality as a catalyst for interpretation, the Yearbook is dedicated to fostering interpretations of Biblical texts.

In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, writers have vividly captured the tensions and possibilities of this encounter—where tongues are “murderous” and words become feasts. Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory offers an analysis of speaking, writing, and performing with an accented tongue. Through an evocative blend of ...