Having fun, zoning out, seeking thrills, admiring beautiful things, learning, festivity, exercise, and Netflix are all contenders for ways to spend our free time. Sometimes we do a few at once. There’s hundreds of ways to spend our free time, but are some better than others?
In deze lezing neemt Bart Root u mee op een fascinerende reis, van de diepten van onze oceanen tot de verre uithoeken van het zonnestelsel. Hij laat zien welke ontdekkingen er, dankzij baanbrekend onderzoek van professor Meinesz, naar het zwaartekrachtsveld van onze planeet zijn gedaan.
Silicon Valley was not just a place, but it had its own ideologies, and they echo today in the halls of power, shaping the thoughts and decisions of policy makers. How much of our world is beholden to the views of figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk? How safe are democratic institutions?
What, to you, are the underlying reasons for (let’s be honest, mostly male) violence in society? How would you go about engineering and designing a safer society?
Liberalism. Conservatism. Marxism. Fascism. Populism. Learn how scholars define various political “-isms” and their many incarnations.
What is a campus for in the first place. Is it a public space, and if so, is it a safe environment to shape your opinion on collective matters in society or in the university and student life? Should it be? And how do we design it so that everyone feels invited to make use of it?
Can we have an equitable, democratic society if only some of us can claim their space? And is a society where everyone is heard equally necessarily better?
Why are the world’s biggest problems so hard to solve?
The shirt you wear right now was made by a child in a faraway country that was not paid fairly for their work. The phone in your pocket cannot be recycled and is barely repairable. Our planet keeps heating up with no end in sight.
Oftentimes, when you think somebody is an *sshole, they’re actually just emotionally immature. (How) Can we as individuals learn to be better than that, and become supremely chill in all situations?
Join us in reading and discussing this classic anti-war novel.
Bring your works in progress – your sketchbook, colored pencils, pastels, fiber art, poetry book, and more!
*note: the date for this event has changed* We all have opinions. Hot takes even. What can you convince an audience of in under 10 minutes? What could you be convinced of yourself? Join us for an evening of polemic and persuasion. Each speaker, armed with only a powerpoint and their passion will try to convince the audience of something perhaps unconventional.
What does being political look like today? In the most tangible sense, how do we “do it” and where do we meet each other to engage, to find our identity, and listen to others?
What counts as a real friendship? Do we have a rich enough vocabulary to describe types of friendships? What might other cultures and languages contribute to our understanding of friendship?
If you sit still too long without any distraction, you might get that nagging feeling that you really exist and that you have no idea why. What does it mean? Why does it happen? And how do you approach it?
