Past events

In this lecture, Halleh Ghorashi will discuss our changing attitude to diversity. First, she will go into the dominant way we deal with diversity in the Netherlands, placing it in a historical context. 

Studium Generale | Film & Talk

Studium Generale | Lecture
Prof. Mark Sanders, Professor of International Economics, UM

Studium Generale | Tans Lecture
Philomena Essed, Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies, Antioch University

In this lecture Mona Seif will talk about the current human rights situation in Egypt and her work as a human rights defender. She will go into the role of the authorities in suppressing critical voices and the role of civil society and human rights defenders in standing up and denouncing human...

Studium Generale | InScience/Maastricht 
By the Throat

In close collaboration with Lumière Cinema we have curated 2 films from this year’s festival selection of InScience International Science Film Festival in Nijmegen. Staff members of Maastricht University will introduce the films, and afterwards give a brief response to them and answer your questions...

The Maastricht UMC+ Health University is an initiative by students who would like to share their knowledge and skills with interested parties. Studium Generale wholeheartedly supports this initiative and has therefore included it in the programme of the lecture series.

Studium Generale | Joan Muysken Lecture
Prof. Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Warwick University

This series aims to combine several international relations theories with topical and current world events. Questions are raised about democracy, conflicts, climate change, foreign policy and more. How have things changed for better or for worse, and how will they change in the future?