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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 06 25

A Twentieth-Century European History

The Quest for Individual Freedom

In his new book, Moritz Föllmer studies the yearning for freedom as experienced by ordinary Europeans in the twentieth century. It is published in a world in which freedom is once again at stake. Looking back at past experiences of and debates on freedom enables us to put current developments in perspective. This afternoon, Hanco Jürgens will discuss the book with the author and historians Willemijn Ruberg and Josephine Hoegaerts.

12 06 25

In cooperation with BC and Open Science Community Amsterdam

Celebrating Open Science: The 2025 OSCAWARDS

In recent years, the Netherlands has taken significant steps toward embracing Open Science. However, as this movement gains momentum, concerns about protecting scientific output and growing skepticism toward science are also on the rise. The third annual OSCAWARDS aims to strengthen the Open Science Community in Amsterdam by recognizing and celebrating the outstanding contributions of its members in advancing Open Science.

12 06 25

Bipolar Transitions: Situated Worlds, Uneven Futures

Energy transitions don’t simply replace one system with another — they transform how territories breathe, how bodies absorb, and how futures fragment. Today we introduce “bipolar transitions” as a name for tracing the unstable humors — manic and melancholic — that transform our planet unevenly. What persists amid all this movement? And how do we stay with what endures — quietly, unevenly?

16 06 25

Questions of Justice and Democracy

Bringing Climate Change to Court

Climate change affects everyone, everywhere. But the way we deal with it—especially in court—is mostly local. Lawsuits over climate issues usually happen in national or regional courts, using local laws. Meanwhile, climate change is a global problem, with impacts that cross borders and generations. This creates a big challenge: how do we balance the need for global justice with the limits of local democracy?

17 06 25

Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics

In this second talk of ACES’s “Diagonalism” series, Robert Topinka engages with the idea of “ambient extremism.” This type of contemporary digital reactionary politics entails a dissolution of distinctions between democracy and authoritarianism, information and misinformation, legitimacy and illegibility. How does this phenomenon reshape the terrain of democratic discourse and, thus, democratic public life generally speaking?

18 06 25

How graphic novels strengthen historical understanding of witnesses’ experiences

Visualizing Survivors’ Voices

Mass violence and genocide are a frequent topic in the daily news coverage. Mass media confront audiences with almost countless images of the physical destruction of cities, dead bodies of victims and the unfathomable grief of bereaved relatives – most of whom remain anonymous. A growing number of graphic novels chooses a different approach. Providing a platform for survivors to share their personal testimonies, these graphic novels focus on individual fates, offering coherent and intimate portrayals in an accessible way. How can these stories help us to understand the past?

20 06 25

Annual Wertheim-Lecture

Can universities be antiracist? Liberal scholarship in genocidal times

The Moving Matters research group has invited Arun Kundnani to deliver this year’s Wertheim lecture on the urgent topic of how universities can become antiracist institutions in our current political context. After the lecture, the floor will be open for debate.

25 06 25

Infrastructures of Solidarity and Struggle

Resistant Energy

This panel examines the shifting infrastructures of resistance and repression that define solidarity from Palestine to South Africa, focusing on legal and institutional frameworks, social and material infrastructures, and social justice archives.