14 August 2026
Socires Professor Carmody Grey wrote last weekend in the Financial Daily. The AI industry flirts with the humanities, but she asks the wrong questions, writes the philosopher and theologian Carmody Grey in Nijmegen: "It is simply wrong that computers can think. People think, using computers."
10 August 2026
Family policy does not start with an integrated family package, but with being: It is a continuous process of humanization.
31 July 2026
Socires-Professor Carmody Grey wrote a great article in the Financial Times, about how AI companies use the term "intelligent" and other human characteristics for their products.
27 July 2026
On Thursday 18 June 2026, young entrepreneurs and professionals met at the Royal Industrial Groote Club to discuss the future of entrepreneurship and work.
8 July 2026
Becoming independent of Big Tech an impossible task? In a new essay in META, journal for library & archive, David Oldenhof-Boks and Hans-Dieter Hiep show that an audience and democratic alternative is possible. And the key is surprisingly close: the local library.
6 July 2026
The library is increasingly regarded as a success story: more visitors, more activities, more social significance. But when will that success story become a risk? In this episode, Irene Harmsen speaks to Ronald van Steden, administrative and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Together they investigate the silent revolution of the library: from collection to connection. A movement that has brought much, but also raises sharp questions.
19 June 2026
With four Master's students in Public Administration - graduation direction Boarding of Security - of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ronald van Steden conducts thesis research into the balance between hospitality and security in public libraries.
17 June 2026
Ward Huetink, Kees Buitendijk and Ellen Klaver reported on their special encounter with the German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han.
15 June 2026
In the run-up to the event 'Entrepreneurship for Tomorrow', colleague David van Overbeek at the Young Entrepreneurs Podcast talked about, among others, Rijnlands entrepreneurship, Rentmeesters Vereniging and Steward Ownership. Rijnlands onderneming, Rentmeesters Vereniging, Steward Ownership. What do they mean, how do they work and why should the new generation of entrepreneurs adopt these forms? Want to know more and/or to talk to us about this?
26 May 2026
