Cooking workshop for econometrics alumni

On Saturday 23 November, study association VESTING hosts an activity for former econometrics students in Amsterdam. The event will start with a creative cooking workshop during which the participants will get to work in the kitchen together. The cooking workshop will be followed by a dinner that will give everyone the opportunity to enjoy their self-prepared dishes. Accompanied by a fine glass of wine and seated at long tables, stories and anecdotes of the olden days can come to life again. More information will follow soon here.

Public Academy for Jurisprudence

The Public Academy for Jurisprudence takes place three times a year and is a collaboration between the Faculty of Law, the Public Prosecution Service, the District Court of the Northern Netherlands, and the newspaper Dagblad van het Noorden. Judges, public prosecutors, professors, and other experts talk about themes that are relevant to a lot of people. The lectures are suitable for a wide audience and no prior knowledge about the legal system is required. The theme of the upcoming edition will be ‘nightlife violence’ and it will be held on Thursday
7 November between 7.30 and 9 p.m. at the Röling Building. More information about the Public Academy for Jurisprudence

General Members Meeting of the Alumni Association English Language and Culture Groningen

The annual members meeting of the Alumni Association English Language and Culture Groningen will take place on Tuesday
5 November at 7 p.m. at the canteen of the Harmonie Building. Our Association is looking for a new board member. Are you interested? please take a look at alumniclubengelsgroningen.nl.

Wanted! Drawings made by Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga might be the greatest cultural historian the Netherlands has ever known. Author of Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen), Homo Ludens, and In the Shadow of Tomorrow (In de schaduwen van morgen), among other works. Books that are relevant to this day, also internationally. ‘We live in a possessed world. And we know it’ he writes in the latter book, published in 1935, in which he analyses the developments of his time, highlighting the rising populism and extremism.
Huizinga was also a talented illustrator and drew a large number of, often comical, drawings, sketches, and doodles.

At the initiative of Huizinga expert Anton van der Lem, on
1 February 2025 – eighty years after his passing – Huizinga will be given something that should have happened years ago: an exhibition of his most important drawings. The exhibition will be held at the University Museum in Groningen, the city where he was born, studied, and worked as a Professor of History for ten years.
Unfortunately, only copies are left of some drawings. But perhaps some of his work is as of yet unknown. Therefore, the exhibition organizers appeal to the public: ‘Do you own an original or a copy of a drawing by Johan Huizinga? We would love to show it at the first exhibition of Huizinga’s drawings.’ Visit the website for more details and examples of drawings.

Books & Booze, Alumni Association English Language and Culture Groningen

On Friday 11 October, the English alumni association organizes another Books & Booze event at Walter’s Bookshop in Groningen. This time, the group will read the classic The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. You are welcome to join from 5 p.m. onward. The final Books & Booze event of the year will be held on Friday 13 December. For more information and the latest edition of English alumni magazine Anglophile, please look here.

Work in progress. New online UG platform for alumni, UG staff, students, and businesses

RUGconnect is the new online platform of the UG. RUGconnect has been set up to connect the various members of our academic community: students and alumni but also UG staff, study associations, and businesses. Through RUGconnect, you can expand your network, look for interesting vacancies or internships, share and attend events, get in touch with other professionals from your field, explore collaborations in the professional world, or reminisce about the good old days with former students. This enables us to collaborate even better in the future and we are able to contribute to a valuable, life-long connection between students, alumni, and the labour market.
Alumni need to be patient for a little while longer before they are able to create a profile on the platform. RUGconnect will be open to them at the start of 2025. Part of the functionalities are already available to businesses, institutions, students, and UG staff.
Would you like to know what RUGconnect has to offer you?
Take a look

In the upcoming Broerstraat 5, we will go into more detail about RUGconnect.