An Interview with Annika Iselhorst the winner of the 2023 IIS Create a Course Challenge

By Jasper Brown and Hannah Brunnschweiler If you could take any course at the UvA, what would you take? Every year, the IIS asks this question, and every year one student’s idea is chosen. The theme “Future Change” provided vast inspiration for the five finalists, as well as the editors at Inter. But only one course…

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Building Understanding – The role of Legos in supporting problem-based-learning

By Hannah Brunnschweiler On the 11th of April, my classmates and I walked into the room without knowing what the upcoming tutorial would be like. A mysterious bag, which we had just seen our tutor (impressively) carry down the stairs was sitting behind her chair. It was the second week of the honours course, and for…

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Remembering the Past: The Historical Legacy Behind the Dutch National Memory 

Written by Helge Moes Photograph by Hannah Brunnschweiler Our memory is defined by past events and by those that take place in what is history. History consists of different forms based on the heritage and nationalism of the individual’s country. In this essay, I consider my own historical background, which is Dutch. The Dutch celebrate…

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