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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

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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.
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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
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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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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.

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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?

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