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Alle locaties SPUI25 Online Rialto Posthoornkerk Paradiso Odeonzaal Amsterdamse Academische Club (AAC) Doelenzaal Nationale Opera & Ballet De Brug (Roeterseiland) De Duif De Brakke Grond Binnengasthuisstraat 9 Aula Roeterseiland Nationale Opera & Ballet, Odeonzaal Singelkerk OBA Theater Vondelkerk Agnietenkapel

10 03 26

How the EU learned to stop worrying and love the hyperscaler

The AI Gigafactory

The EU is increasingly directing attention and funds into building AI infrastructure through the announced AI (Giga)Factories as alternatives to hyperscalers and leading means to strengthen its digital sovereignty. This event will explore the critical questions that these AI infrastructures raise regarding their governance, environmental burden, and overall impact. Because why is (digital) sovereignty considered to be contingent on AI?

10 03 26

Synthetic Genders: How Generative AI Reimagines Gender in Visual Culture

How does Generative AI reshape visual ideas of gender? Three talks explore sexualized and emotional coding in AI characters, the reproduction of gendered art-historical styles, and AI analyses of gender in visualart and movies. How do AI models learn gendered pasts and how does this shape what becomes visible?

13 03 26

The Languages of Opera: No Problem?

Opera is a very complex artform. It tells its stories not just theatrically, but also musically. Music has long been seen as a universal language, but where does that leave opera? Can it too be seen as a universal artform? How do the different ‘languages’ of the stage create meaning? And how accessible can this ‘universal’ language of opera be?

16 03 26

A Talk from the “Cloud is a Factory” Series

Cloud Capitalism

Owned and controlled by a handful of mega-corporations, clouds and mobile devices in our pockets have become the taken-for-granted foundations of contemporary society. What are the consequences of this far-reaching influence of ‘tech’? How did it become embedded in a broader capitalist logic? Devika Narayan, a leading scholar in the social study of cloud computing, gives a talk and engages in a debate.

25 03 26

Shaping Real Lives into Narratives: Heather Clark on Truth and Fiction

How close can storytelling come to historical truth? Where do fact and imagination diverge? And what are the challenges faced by writers tasked with interweaving both? An interview and discussion with distinguished biographer, literary critic, and novelist Heather Clark.

26 03 26

A lecture by the bestselling author Naoko Abe

Sakura. About the Flowering of Cherry Blossoms

Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. During this lecture, Naoko Abe, the London-based writer of the bestseller Sakura, will talk about the history of this iconic blossom.

30 03 26

Film Screening & Conversation

The Weight of the Wild

In 2014, the Romanian town of Armeniș became a site for rewilding Europe’s largest land mammal, the European bison. A decade later, the project lead by WeWilder Campus and WWF Romania, has done more than bring the bison back: it revived the land. A proposed highway route puts a decade of work at risk. Join us for the screening of the short documentary film The Weight of the Wild, and a conversation on how lived ecological change can be translated into forms legible to institutions.

07 04 26

Voltaire-lecture 2026

The New Women of the Right: How the Far Right Has Waged the Gender War in France

Today in Europe, extreme and radical right-wing parties are enjoying electoral success. Their demands are visible in the media, while social networks give them unprecedented visibility. Women, who have long been resistant to these parties and their ideas, now vote like men, are actively involved and have become their figureheads. As leaders or influencers, they are revamping the party’s style and communication. In this year’s Voltaire-lecture, Magali Della Sudda shares her insights on this development.

17 04 26

‘Beyond Sanctuary’ with Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky

At a time of resurgent white nationalism, Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion foregrounds migrant movements and their abolitionist and decolonial imaginations and practices. Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky will present their book and have a dialogue with the audience.

27 05 26

Public Problematisations of AI

How do we publicly problematise the role Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays in society to challenge its inevitability and imagine other ways of living with AI? This panel explores this question, as it invites leading researchers who critically engage with AI and its relation to the public to discuss their ongoing work.