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Nexus Conference 2024 -

Saturday 16 November 2024, 11 AM – 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

The Quest for Vision

The Quest for Vision in the Era of Confusion, Corruption and Foolishness

Where is humanity headed in these confusing and uncertain times? What are we to do, now that ‘the people’ are increasingly turning away from ‘the elite’, and even experienced politicians and supposed experts find themselves at a loss, not knowing where to go next? Where can we still find something to hold onto, when the distinction between truth and falsehood is becoming ever more blurred? As the road before us is growing increasingly foggy, as political extremism is on the rise everywhere and as a deep-seated sense of insecurity is taking hold, the need for a new vision of the future is becoming greater than ever. But who can still provide us with that vision, and what should that vision be? These and many more questions took center stage at the Nexus Conference 2024, ‘The Quest for Vision in the Era of Confusion, Corruption and Foolishness’.

Photos: Jan Reinier van der Vliet

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Full videos

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Culture, Politics, Society

Confusion, Corruption, Foolishness: Causes and Consequences

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Culture, Politics, Society

The Quest for Vision

Program

11:00
Welcome
13:30
Lunch with complimentary refreshments
17:00
Book signing

Photos

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Speakers

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Italy, 1979

Francesco Boldizzoni

historian and advocate of social democracy
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USA, 1985

Damien Chazelle

Oscar winner, director of La La Land and Babylon
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USA, 1967

Rod Dreher

American conservative and religious intellectual
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United States, 1962

Jeff Flake

A high ranked Republican politician and critic of Trump
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Hungary, 1952

László F. Földényi

brilliant essayist and main contributor to our journal Nexus
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China, 1962

Victor Gao

lawyer, businessman and academic
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India, 1958

Ramachandra Guha

public intellectual and biographer of Gandhi
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The Netherlands, 1980

Benjamín Labatut

Author of The MANIAC and When We Cease to Understand the World
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Ireland, 1977

Paul Lynch

novelist, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize
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France, 1976

Garance Pineau

general director MEDEF, former European advisor to president Macron
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United States, 1950

Gregory J. Polan

Abbot of the Benedictine Order
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UK, 1955

Maurizio Serra

European humanist, diplomat, writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt
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Egypt, 1962

Baroness Minouche Shafik

top economist and one of the most influential financial thinkers
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Italy, 1977

Nathalie Tocci

political scientist and director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali
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USA, 1961

Celeste Wallander

US Assistant Secretary of Defense
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USA, 1952

Leon Wieseltier

Jewish American liberal and editor of Liberties

Read the introductory essay

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Rob Riemen

The Quest for Vision in the Era of Confusion, Corruption and Foolishness

Introducing the topic of the Nexus Conference 2024

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