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Nexus Conference 2025 -
Saturday 22 November 2025, 11 AM – 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time
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Cultura Animi VIII
The Quest for Vision in a Confused World
History, Politics, Society
Elif Shafak
An Appeal to Cosmopolitanism
Contemporary politics — with its populist demagogues, illiberal democracies and nationalist or tribalist movements — more and more resembles the beginning to an Anatolian folk tale. Just like the listeners of those ancient folk tales, we, global citizens of today, have entered a messy, disorderly universe.
History, Politics, Society
Nicolas Baverez
Freedom is a Fight
More than ever, war is not about economics but about power and ideology. Authoritarian empires, as Vladimir Putin shows, will do anything, including war, to prohibit freedom in what they define as their sphere of influence.
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Lecture
Nexus Lecture Orhan Pamuk
Novels, Museums and the Idea of Europe
Saturday 28 September 2024
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wynton Marsalis
A Life in Jazz
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
Anand Patwardhan
The flag of democracy
If one cannot safeguard the interests of the planet or the human race through dictatorships and money-controlled democracies, then the only answer is to work to create an alert and effective civil society that fights not necessarily for electoral power alone but sees itself as an ever vigilant watchdog no matter who comes to power.
Agenda
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Published
- Publication
- The Quest for Vision in a Confused World
- Cultura Animi VIII
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24 September
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11 November
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22 November
- Activity
- Apocalypse Now. The Revelation of our Time
- Nexus Conference 2025
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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