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Lecture
Nexus Lecture Wim Wenders -
Sunday 25 October 2026
3 PM – 5 PM
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Future of Kindness
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Conference
Nexus Conference 2026
What Can Cure a Civilization in Crisis?
Saturday 21 November 2026
11 AM - 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Symposium
Nexus Symposium with Robert Malley and Sigrid Kaag
Middle East Diplomacy: The Inevitability of Tragedy?
Thursday 7 May 2026
7.30 PM - 9.30 PM
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Theil Building
Wynton Marsalis
A Life in Jazz
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Cultura Animi VIII
The Quest for Vision in a Confused World
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Symposium
Nexus 100. A Celebratory Symposium
A New Song of the Earth
Saturday 3 October 2026
3 PM - 5 PM
DeLaMar, Amsterdam
History, Philosophy, Society
Humberto Beck
Meaning and modernity
Perhaps the main consequence of disenchantment has been this fragmentation of our image of the world. The effects of this disintegration have been immense: it has uprooted human experience.
Literature, Philosophy
Josep Maria Esquirol’s Philosophy of Proximity
Intimate Resistance in an Age of Saturation
His philosophy shifts attention away from logics of domination, self-realisation, and expansion, toward vulnerability, care, and inward gathering as the fundamental ways of sustaining life and recovering meaning.
Agenda
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25 October
- Activity
- The Future of Kindness
- Nexus Lecture 2026
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21 November
- Activity
- What Can Cure a Civilization in Crisis?
- Nexus Conference 2026
Science
Søren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety
What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
Science
Søren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety
What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
Science
Søren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety
What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
Science
Søren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety
What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
Masters
Thomas Mann
What can we learn from the great European humanist?
Masters
Thomas Mann
What can we learn from the great European humanist?
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