De mens als komische klungel | Gesprek met improvisatietheater met filosofen Ype de Boer en Tim Miechels en theatersportgroep Binnenste Buiten
De mens als komische klungel | Gesprek met improvisatietheater met filosofen Ype de Boer en Tim Miechels en theatersportgroep Binnenste Buiten

Life as Comedy | Conversation with Improv Theatre featuring Philosophers Ype de Boer and Tim Miechels and Improv Group Binnenste Buiten | Denkwerk 2026

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What if we imagine humans not as tragic heroes, but as comical blundering fools? Tragedy, with its heroes, gravity, and superhuman obstacles, has inspired many a thinker. But what about comedy? What if we acknowledge that humans are just fumbling around? Listen to philosophers Ype de Boer and Tim Miechels and learn to see life as comedy.

Improv group Binnenste Buiten will intersperse the conversation with short improvised scenes based on input from the audience.

Saturday, 7 March 2026 | 22.30 - 23.15 hrs | Lindenbergzaal (330 p.), De Lindenberg, Nijmegen

The language of discussion is Dutch. 

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This program is part of Denkwerk Festival of Radboud Reflects at Radboud University, on Saturday, 7 March 2026 at De Lindenberg in Nijmegen. Through (silent) interviews, lectures, music, films, and more, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion from Radboud University will encourage you to think more deeply about the major questions of our time.

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Organizational unit
Radboud Reflects
About person
Dr Y.M. de Boer (Ype) , Dr T. Miechels (Tim)
Theme
Philosophy

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