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Cultura Animi VIII

The Quest for Vision in a Confused World

Philosophy, Politics, Society

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

The Embodiment of Evil?

The Western world has now been engaged for almost two decades in a battle with the external forces of evil, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic state. Is that the battle of good and evil? Or is it a diversion that prevents us from looking within our societies, and eventually within ourselves to find the right battleground?

Masterclass

Nexus Masterclass Rory Stewart

Politics: Who Cares?

Wednesday 24 September 2025 8 PM - 9.30 PM Erasmus University Rotterdam, Theil Building

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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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.

Politics, Society

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Anxiety as Roleplaying?

If we are going to get out of this new age of anxiety, if such a turn of events is even possible given the limitless complexities of the contemporary human condition, we are going to have learn, all of us, to see through the veil of stereotype falling between us.

Lecture

Nexus Lecture Secretary Antony Blinken

Present at the Re-Creation: Restoring the Promise of America in the World

Tuesday 11 November 2025 Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam

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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.