Europe up for Grabs?
How to reclaim a continent
- Date
- 9 May 2025
- Time
- 20:00
- Location
- SPUI25
Seventy-five years after the Schuman Declaration of 1950, Europe is seriously challenged. Hostile geopolitical powers, tech oligarchs and anti-democratic politics pose huge threats to European togetherness and stability.
Can we seize this moment to come together around shared values and principles, and speak with one voice? What would that new European story look like? And whose voices do we need to hear? During this evening, we ask what’s there to celebrate on May 9, as we explore if and how we may reclaim ownership of Europe, whether that’s through storytelling, citizen engagement or the arts.
SPUI25 is the academic-cultural podium of Amsterdam. Since 2007, we have been giving scientists, authors, artists and other thinkers the opportunity to shine a light on issues that occupy, inspire or concern them. In cooperation with a large number of academic and cultural partners, we organize between 250 and 300 freely accessible programs per year. These are enriching, often interdisciplinary programs that move between science and culture, fact and fiction.
SPUI25 is one of the UvA podia in the University Quarter.
