Archief voor November, 2007
David Weinberger explains the VeerStichting
Monday, November 12th, 2007David Weinberger, een van de sprekers van afgelopen symposium geeft hieronder zijn visie op het symposium:
VeerStichting Explained
I’m just back from the Veerstichting symposium in Leiden, the Netherlands. I know I’ve made several references to it without explaining what it is. Now that I’ve been there, I have some idea.It’s an annual two-day conference, by the Dutch and for the Dutch, that’s been around for about 25 years. About 600 people attend, half of them students. They emphasize the presence of students. For example, at one of the dinners, you’re seated carefully at the long tables in a student-nonstudent sequence. And each speaker is assigned a student host who stays with you throughout the two days.The program itself consists of a series of thirty-minute presentations (20 mins of talk, ten of Q and A) by an eclectic set of speakers. This year, they included a former high official of the UN who talked about the nature of Indian identity, the coach of the winning Dutch women’s hockey team, a guy who writes about why management sucks, a leading biologist explaining the evolutionary basis of herd behavior, Naomi Klein on “shock therapy economics,” the head of the Rwandan courts punishing those who participated in genocide, and the star of a popular sex-and-drugs interview show on TV. The attendees seemed to favor senior business folks, government officials, and the occasional Queen of the Netherlands. (The Queen brushed by me on her way to talk with one of the speakers. I was this close to the back of her head!) Unlike most American conferences, Veerstichting incorporates cultural events. For example, to kick off the afternoon session, there was a ten-minute modern dance routine, and there was a longer dance about freedom or something
De Gacaca tribunalen van Rwanda
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Dit artikel geeft achtergrond informatie over de Gacaca Tribunalen die zijn ingesteld om de verdachten van de Rwandese Genocide te berechten.
bron: Trouw/Afrikanews.nl
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