How does design—of streets, campuses, digital platforms, or lecture halls—shape who belongs and who does not? And what happens when we use these spaces to speak out, resist and make ourselves seen? When presence turns into protest, these spaces become political. In this series, we explore how political spaces come into being.
Throughout the spring of 2025, Studium Generale events were mainly centered around War & Entropy and Language & Power. And even beyond those two themes, we organized interactive programs with surprising perspectives and meaningful encounters.
What’s really wrong with extreme wealth? Haven’t men—since it’s nearly always men—like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos earned their fortune through hard work and smart business strategies? Who are we, the average people, to criticize them? Isn’t our disdain rooted in jealousy because we secretly wish to be like them? It’s curious that we even […]
Wednesday morning in my home office in the attic. I start up my laptop, get myself a cup of coffee, and put on an extra jumper so I will not be interrupted mid-sentence by the freezing of my fingers. I am rested and ready to edit the manuscript of my second novel. Wait, before I […]
When is it genocide, and who decides?
One of our favorite organizations to collaborate with is looking for new board members. Are you Surinamese, or of Surinamese descent, or otherwise affiliated with or even deeply interested in Suriname? We need your help!
Are you bound by incomprehensible laws of the universe to find avenues of expression, through poetry, sketching, dance, music, or whatever, for no other reason than the joy and suffering of existence?
This is a humble suggestion and invitation: share your work with the student-run magazine Hesiodos.
Madelaine Ley recited a poem at Studium Generale’s For Love of the World: Philosophy, Art and Technology conference and found herself surrounded by others delighted to have the soul and spirit included in intellectual conversations.
Intuitions, gut feelings, emotional intelligence, instinct: stuff we don’t usually learn about in school, perhaps because of our culture’s focus on the rational and the objective. But in a post-truth world, shouldn’t we be better educated on how the non-rational affects our lives?
