Conference
Nexus Conference 2025 -
Saturday 22 November 2025, 11 AM – 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time
Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time
The Nexus Conference is sold out! There are no more tickets available. Would you like to experience the Nexus Conference but weren’t able to secure tickets? English Nexus memberships give access to the livestream and recordings of the conference. Members will find the livestream on the Nexus website on November 22nd between 11 AM and 5PM. The full recording of the conference will be available in the Nexus Treasury at the beginning of December. Join our membership!
A world order based on international rules and universal human rights: this was the aim with which the world came together after the Second World War. But 75 years later, we see how rules are being changed to suit one’s own interest everywhere around us, and how human rights increasingly make way for the right of the strongest. Whether this is at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent victims, or even of the entire planet. The world is no longer wavering, but is being tossed around by a thousand storms. How will these storms end? Will a new world rise from the ruins they caused? This is the subject of the Nexus Conference 2025, ‘Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time’, taking place on 22 November in Amsterdam and online.
For anyone following the news today, the apocalyptic prophecies hardly seem to belong to the imagination anymore. Do the global wars, famines and natural disasters herald an Armageddon? Who are the horsemen, beasts and false prophets of our current time? And how can we overcome them, in order to create the new heaven and earth that follow the end-time in the Bible too? We’ll ask these questions on 22 November to an international group of leading intellectuals, diplomats, politicians and activists.
Practical details
The Nexus Conference 2025 will take place on Saturday 22 November in the theater of the National Opera & Ballet, Amstel 3 in Amsterdam. The opera is easily accessible by public transport (metro stop Waterlooplein). Parking is available in the Stadhuis – Muziektheater parking garage or in the Waterlooplein parking garage.
The doors of the theater will open on 22 November at 10.15 AM. The doors to the auditorium open at 10.45 AM. and close at 11.00 AM., after which the lights in the auditorium will be turned off. If you arrive after the program has started, we will wait for a suitable time to guide you either to a place in the auditorium or to a place where you can watch the livestream so that you can follow the program. Anyone who leaves the auditorium during the program and wants to return to the program, will also be assisted by a theater employee. This way, we will be able to guarantee a calm and safe visitor experience.
If you received your entrance ticket as a QR code by email of if you received a red ticket by post, you can take a seat at any place at hall level. If you received blue tickets as an invitee, you will be welcomed on the first balcony. If you received a yellow ticket, please find a seat on the second balcony.
During the conference, the Nexus Institute will have an information and sales counter, and Athenaeum Boekhandel will be there with an appealing selection of books related to the conference theme. Several speakers will be pleased to sign your books during the break or afterward during the reception.
A vegetarian lunch and a bottle of water are included with your entrance ticket. If you have dietary restrictions, please inform us no later than 7 November with a mail to info@nexus-instituut.nl .
Program
- 11:00
- Welcome
- 11:10
- ‘What have you seen? What is?’ (Book of Revelation 1:19)
- 13:30
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Lunch with complimentary refreshments
- 14:30
- ‘I will show you what must take place after this.’ (Book of Revelation 4:1)
- 17:00
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Book signing
Read the introductory essay
Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time
Tickets
Speakers
Khalifa AlQama
Josep Borrell Fontelles
Javier Cercas
Patrick J. Deneen
William Fallon
Gaya Herrington
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Sigrid Kaag
Dmytro Kuleba
Connor Leahy
Vice President Mike Pence
Mamphela Ramphele
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
Carissa Véliz
Leon Wieseltier
President Salome Zourabichvili
This event is made possible with the support of