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  • Tech Talk # 3: AI Companions as ‘Significant Others’

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    Adrienne de Ruiter is assistant professor in Humanism and Philosophy at the University of Humanistic Studies. Alba van de Weem is MA student in Humanistic Studies. Together they will discuss the research they conducted for the NWO-XS grant Meet My Virtual Better Half: Exploring the meaning of ‘significant others’ on Replika.

  • PhD defence Iris Wierstra

    Event PhD Defence

    On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, Iris Wierstra will defend her thesis entitled Healthcare chaplaincy's professionalism: Navigating the ambiguous and contested role of worldview.

  • PhD Defence Maritza Gerritsen-Ververs

    Event PhD Defence

    Op 24 February 2026 Maritza Gerritsen-Ververs defends her thesis ”Hoe kan ik naar mijn werk als het regent?”

  • PhD Defence Vera van den Berg

    Event PhD Defence

    Vera van den Berg defends her thesis Is this it? The lived experience of older adults with a wish to die who are not severely ill.

  • Training Deep Listening and Existential Concerns

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    This three-day course in Deep Listening an Existential Concerns is for anyone who has completed 4 days of our Deep Listening training. This training course is a collaboration between the University of Humanistic Studies and Dominicanenklooster Huissen. Description Existential concerns arise in the following five human life situations: Identified…

  • PhD Defence Cobi Wattez

    Event PhD Defence

    On March 19, Cobi Wattez will defend her thesis 'Waarnemen wat ongezien blijft. Emergente masculiene en feminiene patronen in leiderschapsgedrag.'

  • Training Deep Listening Intensive

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    Deep Listening is a complete practical training using the transformational method of Awareness Centred Deep Listening Training ACDLT® designed by Rosamund Oliver.

  • PhD Defence Chloé Rogiers Mayeux

    Event PhD Defence

    On 23 April, Chloé Rogiers Mayeux will defend her thesis Fragmented Solidarities: on Female Survivors of Domestic Violence with a Migration Background in the Netherlands.

  • Conference on Education for Transformation: Perspectives on Flourishing in the Anthropocene

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    The conference will explore how education shapes our sense of place in the world, our relationships with human and more-than-human life and our capacity to face the uncertainties of the Anthropocene.