Corona Care Package #21 | Staying connected with StayDelft

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Monday’s post: Staying connected with StayDelft

Monday April 27 | Staying connected with StayDelft

Do you also miss hanging out with your friends in Delft? Or do you miss meeting new people? StayDelft is here to help you stay connected!

Set up by students who were also missing the student life, StayDelft aims to provide fun events to keep you entertained and connected with your fellow students, without leaving your couch. Think of an online pub quiz, pictionary night, or workshops. There’s something fun for everyone! Does this sound interesting to you? You can join the Slack group via this link.

Events take place on Zoom, and this week’s offerings include meditation, sports, cooking, games (from chess to Cards Against Humanity) and literature. Check out the weekly schedule!

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, The World After Corona, Arts & Culture and other online events.

Corona Care Package #20 | I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!

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Friday’s post: A Message to the Government by Ticked Off Vic
Friday’s post: When anger from coronavirus is displaced
Thursday’s post: Podcast with Marli Huijer by SG Erasmus (Dutch)
Thursday’s post: Pandemic webinars by SG Utrecht
Wednesday’s post: The Shows Must Go On
Wednesday’s post: The Nation by Dutch National Theatre (Dutch)
Tuesday’s post: How the truth became whatever makes you click
Tuesday’s post: Profile of Evgeny Morozov
Monday’s post: Meme Therapy

Friday April 24 | I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!

Sound familiar? It’s a classic line from the movie Network (highly recommended) but it’s also how some of us feel about the corona crisis and the restrictions we’re under right now. Frustrated, irritated, angry.

It can escalate into full blown righteous indignation, as comedian Ticked Off Vic from New York demonstrates as he vents his anger at the US government’s handling of the corona crisis (warning: lots and lots of swearwords). Is it healthy behavior? Sure, venting can be healthy; but it can also hurt you or the people around you. Check out this short article on Psychology Today for tips on how to recognise and manage your coronavirus anger before it goes too far.

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #19 | Shout out to our SG Colleagues!

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Thursday’s post: Podcast with Marli Huijer by SG Erasmus (Dutch)
Thursday’s post: Pandemic webinars by SG Utrecht
Wednesday’s post: The Shows Must Go On
Wednesday’s post: The Nation by Dutch National Theatre (Dutch)
Tuesday’s post: How the truth became whatever makes you click
Tuesday’s post: Profile of Evgeny Morozov
Monday’s post: Meme Therapy

Thursday April 23 | Shout out to our SG colleagues!

Did you know that every university has a Studium Generale (or an equivalent) bureau?

Like us, they have been sharing ánd creating thought-provoking online content. Take, for example, the podcast with philosopher Marli Huijer from our colleagues at SG Erasmus (in Dutch). Or the pandemic webinars brought to you by SG Utrecht (in English).

Stay tuned for more interesting content by us and our SG comrades!

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #18 | Broadway & Dutch National Theatre

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Wednesday’s post: The Shows Must Go On
Wednesday’s post: The Nation by Dutch National Theatre (Dutch)
Tuesday’s post: How the truth became whatever makes you click
Tuesday’s post: Profile of Evgeny Morozov
Monday’s post: Meme Therapy

Wednesday April 22 | Broadway & Dutch National Theatre

Of course there’s little that can replace the genuine theatre experience of red plush seats, heavy velvet drapings and spotlights on a stage. Still, check out today’s tips and set up your own theatre from home.

The coming weeks renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber releases his famous #musicals for free on his Youtube channel The Shows Must Go On. Every Friday evening from 20.00 there is new one available for 48 hours, after which it is gone. #Broadway from your couch.

The Nation

Have you seen all there is to see on Netflix? Feel like something different? Het Nationale Theater presents the #theatre play The Nation on their website. It’s like watching a Netflix series but on stage. In six episodes the audience can bingewatch the play online, which is about a little boy from the Schilderswijk in The Hague who suddenly disappears. Theatre meets crime series in this beautifully recorded cross over. Worthwhile to have a look. It is in Dutch.

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #17 | Whatever makes you click…

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Tuesday’s post: How the truth became whatever makes you click
Tuesday’s post: Profile of Evgeny Morozov
Monday’s post: Meme Therapy

Tuesday April 21 | How the truth became whatever makes you click

Just like our education and healthcare systems, our information supply has been heavily commercialised in the past decades. Truth has become a product, aimed at satisfying a need. The advent of digital capitalism turned truth into whatever makes you click.

Read this article by Rob Wijnberg from The Correspondent, and for a deeper dive, check out this profile of Evgeny Morozov by Maurits Martijn. For Dutch readers we recommend Morozov’s recent contribution about Big Tech and the current pandemic.

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #stayingin as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus area’s: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #16 | Meme Therapy

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Monday’s post: Meme Therapy

Monday April 20 | Meme therapy

Humor can be a great coping strategy in hard times. And there’s some great internet humor out there poking fun at the COVID-19 crisis. The added bonus for the socially-minded thinker are the jokes that convey thinly-veiled criticisms of our society. Which of these jokes gets you laughing, cringing, and thinking in new ways?

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #stayingin as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus area’s: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Hesiodos Magazine | Call for Content

These are confusing times… how do you cope? A lot of people feel like expressing themselves artistically. The editors of TU Delft’s creative magazine Hesiodos are looking for contributions for the fourth edition that is to be published later this year. Feel like ventilating your thoughts and emotions on the corona virus? Then send your poems, illustrations, stories, photos or paintings: virtually anything that can be printed. Deadline is 16 May 2020. Check the details at https://hesiodos.nl/

Corona Care Package #15 | Mental Health & Wellbeing

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Friday’s post: SG Archive | Swami at the Uni (English)
Thursday’s post: A turning point in history? (English)
Wednesday’s post: Spitfree Comedy live by Comedy Club Haug (Dutch)
Wednesday’s post: A Closer Look by Seth Meyers (English)
Tuesday’s post: The world after Coronavirus according to Harari
Tuesday’s post: Post-corona manifesto by 170 Dutch scientists
Monday’s post: We are all global citizens

Friday April 17 | Swami at the Uni

From our video archives: in 2016 Swami Jyothirmayah visited the TU Delft and gave a lecture on yoga, meditation, silence, breathing, and more.

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #14 | A turning point in history?

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Thursday’s post: A turning point in history? (English)
Wednesday’s post: Spitfree Comedy live by Comedy Club Haug (Dutch)
Wednesday’s post: A Closer Look by Seth Meyers (English)
Tuesday’s post: The world after Coronavirus according to Harari
Tuesday’s post: Post-corona manifesto by 170 Dutch scientists
Monday’s post: We are all global citizens

Thursday April 16 | A turning point in history?

Last Tuesday we shared Yuval Noah Harari’s perspective on the world after the corona crisis. Today we refer to John Gray’s essay in  the New Statesman: Is this crisis a turning point in history?

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.

Corona Care Package #13 | Comedy & Call for Content

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Wednesday’s post: Spitfree Comedy live by Comedy Club Haug (Dutch)
Wednesday’s post: A Closer Look by Seth Meyers (English)
Tuesday’s post: The world after Coronavirus according to Harari
Tuesday’s post: Post-corona manifesto by 170 Dutch scientists
Monday’s post: We are all global citizens

Wednesday April 15 | Comedy & Call for Content

Spitfree Comedy live by Comedy Club Haug

The Rotterdam-based comedy club Club Haug live streams ‘Spitfree Comedy’ three times a week on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 21:00. A talkshow without an audience, but with the club’s own comedians, a special guest and a moderator who varies every show. It is in Dutch and you can support the comedy club by ‘buying a ticket’ (donation are voluntarily). All shows are recorded and available online for a week on the club’s YouTube channel.

A Closer Look by Seth Meyers

The corona virus hits hard in the USA and there’s a lot to say about the sitting government and how it handles the outbreak. Feel like some Trump-bashing? Comedian Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Trump essentially abdicating his responsibility to handle the coronavirus pandemic in A Closer Look, an item in his talkshow in which he reflects on the daily news. Meyers has set up a stage in his own home, where he started in the hallway and gradually moved to the attic.

Hesiodos Magazine | Call for Content

These are confusing times, how do you cope? A lot of people feel like expressing themselves artistically. The editors of TU Delft’s creative magazine Hesiodos are looking for contributions for the fourth edition that is to be published later this year. Feel like ventilating your thoughts and emotions on the corona virus? Then send your poems, illustrations, stories, photos or paintings: virtually anything that can be printed. Deadline is 16 May 2020. Check the details at https://hesiodos.nl/

Studium Generale created a Corona Care Package to make #StayingIn as pleasant as possible. In the following weeks we will share videos, blogs, articles and podcasts within four focus areas: Mental Health, Fake News, Arts & Culture and Philosophy.