Programme Archive
On this page we provide an overview of recent activities of Studium Generale.
Studium Generale challenges me to look critically at everything. Moreover, my interests are broad and I want to learn about multiple topics.
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SG - Subversive Humour in Film
- Movies challenging dictatorships, (bourgeois) hypocrisy and/or good taste are plentiful. Join film critic Kevin Toma in this exploration of the... -
SG - Creating Subversive Humour
- How is subversive humour created? Are there boundaries, when addressing sensitive topics in comedy? Stand-up comedian Djoni de Vos will lift a tip of... -
SG - The Politics and Ethics of Provocative Humour
- Mocking the powers that be seems joyful, or at least satisfying. Until you meet some of the caveats. Can subversive humour free us from oppressive... -
SG – Bye Bye Tiberias
- Storytelling as an antidote for erasure and oblivion as four generations of women revisit vanished places, scattered memories. -
SG - Designing Education for Empowering Minds, Hearts and Bodies
- How can education play a role in empowering us to cope with a world in crisis? Let's explore how we could shape our learning processes in such a way... -
SG - The Role of Higher Education in the Face of Crises
- Tonight, we start with a provocative question: Is the way our higher education is organised suitable for learning to deal with contemporary... -
SG – Aida Returns
- The urgency to remember and certainly not forget is at the heart of this personal documentary about a journey home. -
SG - Genocide (an urgent key-concept)
- Genocide as a concept emerged from the horrors of the Holocaust and is a precisely and narrowly defined term in international law. In history and... -
SG - Race (an evanescing key-concept)
- In much everyday parlance, ‘race’ is a very loaded term, when applied to humans and especially when a set of values surrounds it. -
SG - Do it Yourself: More-than-Human Decision-Making
- After all the discussions about adopting a more-than-human perspective, you may be curious about what that experience would feel like. How do you go...