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Cultura Animi IX
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Conference
Nexus Conference 2025
Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time
Saturday 22 November 2025, 11 AM - 5 PM
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Europa, History, Politics
Allan Janik
Wake Up Europe!
With that we come to the crux of the problem: the European Union is totally asleep as far as it ability to perceive the will of ordinary citizens.
Masterclass
Nexus Masterclass Rory Stewart
Politics: Who Cares?
Wednesday 24 September 2025
8 PM - 9.30 PM
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Theil Building
Culture, Society
Alain Badiou
How to Change the World?
To ‘change the world’, as an infinite process, is always, under pressure from a local event, an active fidelity to the new real that was revealed as the possibility of the impossible.
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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.
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.
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
History, Politics, War
Sean Wilentz
America, the War, Two Speeches, and Two Stories
There are two stories to be told about America and Putin's war on Ukraine, one encouraging, the other frightening.
Cultura Animi VIII
The Quest for Vision in a Confused World
Culture, Religion
Leszek Kolakowski
On Happiness
If we experience the excellence, goodness and beauty of the entire Universe, are we not happy? The answer is: no, we are not.
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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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