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Passing on the Flag
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Conference
Nexus Conference 2024
The Quest for Vision
Saturday 16 November 2024, 11 AM - 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
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
History, Politics, Society
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
The Mere Absence of War is Not Enough
Have we reached the end of days? War has been a part of the human condition since the beginning of time. But another world war in the age of nuclear weapons would spell the end of humanity as we know it.
History, Philosophy, Science, Society
Ray Monk
Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer on War and the Bomb
What are the lessons we have to learn from thinkers like Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer for our time? As it happens, all three of these thinkers have grappled, in fascinatingly contrasting ways, with questions of war and peace, and much could be learned from investigating how they did so.
Agenda
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- Passing on the Flag
- Cultura Animi VII
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spring 2025
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22 November
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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