Good vs. bad, us vs. them, man vs. woman. Can we live without getting stuck in false dichotomies?

Lumen and Studium Generale are joining forces and are starting a new monthly collaboration showcasing the best and freshest voices from cinema. Tickets are only €7,50 with a student card and include a free drink!

For anyone with a creative spirit – join a ‘gezellige’ evening of sketching & creativity with Hesiodos in a local pub.

Culture is your operating system. Can you step back from it and describe it?

Onze samenleving zit boordevol verhalen. In veel daarvan zijn wij mensen het vertrekpunt, en maken we van onze omgeving objecten die we kunnen claimen, bezitten, exploiteren en uitbuiten.

Join Katarina Petrović and library curators for an artist talk and conversation about ArtScience, algorithms, and what the negation of seminal texts like the Bible and Darwin offers us.

If you want your stories to feel alive, you need to learn to paint pictures with your words. This session, we’re focusing on bodies.

Three women working in a hospital in overcrowded Mumbai, India. On the way to the countryside, it suddenly becomes a lot quieter.

Building from the previous two sessions on stillness and listening, we’ll now find our voice. Playing with the acoustics in the Oude Kerk, we’ll explore how speaking is always a dance of attunement between our bodies and our surroundings.

To what extent can we trust our own minds?

How do you gain wisdom? Is it through a teacher, books, suffering, living in a cave? Through words, intelligence, intuition, or feeling?

Join us in reading and discussing this famed feminist essay by Virginia Woolf.

Philosophically speaking, everything we know could be a lie. How do skepticism and knowledge add up to a life in which things actually kind of make sense?

On what knowledge should we base our lives? What if we abolished bullshit and based all our truths on science instead?

Experienced debaters from the Debating club hold a debate with a humorous twist. Come watch various interesting and relatable motions get built and then meticulously destroyed by rival sides.