Want to find new ways to think about matters of importance in society? Read here the reviews, watch the video of listen to the podcasts of the latest Radboud Reflects lectures. Learn, enjoy and think further.
The Water at Our Lips. Disasters Then and Now | Theatre Lecture by Lotte Jensen
Every household in the Netherlands received an emergency booklet from the government. Has yours already disappeared into the back of a kitchen drawer? Or do you have your canned beans and emergency kit ready to go? Should we be afraid of a disaster?
Los Domingos. On Calling and Doubt | Film and Conversation with theologian Annemarieke van der Woude
What if your child wants something completely different for their life than what you had imagined? Ainara feels a calling: she wants to spend her life in a monastery. An experience that turns her world upside down, and that of her family as well.
Sophie Straat: Music and Politics | Lecture and Conversation with Cultural Scientist Melanie Schiller and Musician Sophie Straat
What role does music play in social change? Musician Sophie Straat addresses major social issues through her activist songs. Learn from scholar of culture Melanie Schiller in conversation with Sophie Straat.
How Social Class Shapes Us | Lecture and conversation with philosopher Hanno Sauer
Why do we pay so little attention to class when we are looking to lessen inequality? How can your class in these days still be so important for who and what you can become in society?
An App for Everything: The Pitfalls of Technological Solutionism | Lecture and Conversation with philosophers Bouke van Balen and Liz Groen and social researcher Irma Arts
What are the social and political implications of information technology? Learn from philosophers Bouke van Balen and Liz Groen and social researcher Irma Arts about complex problems and the illusion of control.
Radboud Reflects Book Club on Ken jezelf | With philosopher Cees Leijenhorst and moderator Noortje Schonck
Read Ken jezelf by philosopher Tinneke Beeckman and learn from philosopher Cees Leijenhorst and moderator Noortje Schonck about the search for who we are.
The Reflector – Solidariteit. Een kleine filosofie | Podcast with philosopher René ten Bos Radboud Reflects
DUTCH - Listen to René ten Bos about his new book 'Solidariteit. Een kleine filosofie', showing that true solidarity is not found in rules or policy, but in the awareness of our shared vulnerability.
High Sensitivity: Brain, Mental Health and Society | Lecture and conversation with psychologist Corina Greven and neuroscientist Judith Homberg
What happens in the brain of a highly sensitive person? How does high sensitivity affect mental health? And if there’s an increase, what does that say about our society?
Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz: Developments in the War on Iran | Current Affairs lecture with political scientist Nora Stel and American Studies scholar Peter van der Heiden
What is the nature of the relationship between the United States and Israel, and who has which interests in this increasingly complex war? What is Lebanon’s role in all of this?
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer on Democracy. Where Did It Go Wrong? | Conversation with author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer and students of Radboud University
In his new book Absolute Democracy, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer examines the mechanisms shaping our time. Where did things go wrong? And what might the path toward a better future look like?
Course | Hannah Arendt: Politics and the Individual
COURSE IN DUTCH - Five-part course with philosopher Tim Miechels on the life and work of Hannah Arendt.
Imagine! How Dystopian and Utopian Stories Shape Our Future | Film and conversation with scholar of religion Seth Bledsoe and scholar of culture Christopher Cusack
Can utopian movies help us to imagine alternative futures, or do we overestimate how much our imagination can shape our future?