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Nexus Symposium with Robert Malley and Sigrid Kaag -

Thursday 7 May 2026
7.30 PM – 9.30 PM
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Theil Building

Middle East Diplomacy: The Inevitability of Tragedy?

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Cultura Animi IX

Present at the Re-Creation

History, Politics, War

Sean Wilentz

America, the War, Two Speeches, and Two Stories

There are two stories to be told about America and Putin's war on Ukraine, one encouraging, the other frightening.

Cultura Animi VIII

The Quest for Vision in a Confused World

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Culture, Society

Alain Badiou

How to Change the World?

To ‘change the world’, as an infinite process, is always, under pressure from a local event, an active fidelity to the new real that was revealed as the possibility of the impossible.

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Europa, History, Politics

Allan Janik

Wake Up Europe!

With that we come to the crux of the problem: the European Union is totally asleep as far as it ability to perceive the will of ordinary citizens.

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Climate, Politics

Bill McKibben

From the ashes of the climate crisis

Global warming is a time test – if we don’t solve it soon, we don’t ever solve it, because we will have passed impossible tipping points. Winning slowly is just a different way of losing. And if we’d started in 1990 it would have been hard, but doable – forty years isn’t much, but it’s a hell of a lot better than seven, which is where we are now.

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Culture, Humanism, Science

Marilynne Robinson

In Praise of the Human Soul

A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader’s store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. As with scientific hypotheses even failure is meaningful, a test of the boundaries of credibility. So many voices, so many worlds, we can weary of them.

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Agenda

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- Publication
- Present at the Re-Creation
- Cultura Animi IX
7 May
- Activity
- Middle East Diplomacy: The Inevitability of Tragedy?
- Nexus Symposium 2026
21 November
- Activity
- Nexus Conference 2026