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.
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The First Critical Mass Session: a photo impression
The Fetish of Extreme Wealth
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 […]
Warmth, kindness, and support to keep yourself writing
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 […]
A history of genocide
When is it genocide, and who decides?
Call for board members SUBEST Delft – Surinamese Bèta Students in Delft
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!
Hesiodos Creative Magazine: Call for Content!
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.
Sacred Sessions at the Oude Kerk
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.
Do you trust what you feel?
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?
It makes your blood boil
What pissed students in Delft off in 1861, so much so that they started the first protest on campus?