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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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Masterclass
Nexus Masterclass Rory Stewart
Politics: Who Cares?
Wednesday 24 September 2025
8 PM - 9.30 PM
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Theil Building
Cultura Animi VIII
The Quest for Vision in a Confused World
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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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.
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
Wynton Marsalis
A Life in Jazz
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.
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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
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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