Upcoming events
In this section, you can find all about our upcoming workshops, gatherings, talks, and courses. We hope to see you there!
Digital Independence and You
Date: May 20
Time: 17:30- 19:30
Location: The Old Library at the Clockhouse
A workshop to empower YOU, the computer user!
Are you a computer user? Do you feel powerless towards your computer sometimes? Have you experienced being afraid of Windows updating during an exam? Or having to buy a new computer because Windows or macOS does not support your old computer anymore, even though it works perfectly fine? Do you want to become (a bit) independent of American Big Tech? Have you ever considered that you can change these tools to make them fit your needs, your device, and the world?
If you are silently thinking, “Oh, but I am not a computer nerd”; I don't know anything about computers, this is the workshop for you!
The program:
- basic terms and what an operating system does
- the differences in major operating systems
- open source and free software
- software use from a political perspective and sustainable software
- how to change your operating system and try out the alternatives
What to bring: We will try out stuff in the workshop, so if you have the possibility, bring a laptop and some empty storage media (for example, an USB stick: 4 GB is good, 8 GB is even better, and more is no problem :)).
PS: If you are a computer nerd, you are of course also welcome, but we will probably cover knowledge you already have :)
This workshop is facilitated by Xenia, who studies Ocean Engineering as an exchange student at WUR. Xenia is passionate about digital independence because it is essential to democratic and sustainable societies.
Experiential Thinking and Research: towards the fuzziness of science
Date: March 28, April 25 , May 23
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Location: The Old Library at the Clockhouse (37 General Foulkesweg)
Sign up at this link !
Through this three-part workshop series, we will look into thinking beyond abstract reasoning in the head. The workshop series is particularly aimed at WUR masters students who are currently thinking about and designing their thesis project. We will explore themes connected to your work as a young researcher; personal values and emotions and your positionality within academia. Through different embodied exercises, the workshops aim to provide spaces where you can develop the capability to remain connected to that which is deeply felt throughout your master's thesis journey.
The workshop series is inspired by Donna Haraway's tentacular thinking and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing. We will engage with Focusing as a philosophical and experiential practice that allows us to turn our attention inward, toward a bodily felt sense of a situation and allowing new meaning to emerge from it. Through this practice, rather than analyzing a problem with thought alone, Focusing will invite you to notice the unclear, bodily sense of an issue. This practice will be the basis as we look inwards while remaining always in relation to the world, attentive to our tentacular connections across beings and systems. We will look into the values that guide your research and your position as a student within higher education, through the student-supervisor dynamic.
This workshop is facilitated by Bernardo Couto Soares, Anke de Vrieze, Ania Ektate, and Isa Prieto.
Menstrual Health Day 2026
Film Screening & Discussion: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, Building Forum, Room: B0031 (ground floor)
How is gender based discrimination connected to practices of food and menstruation? Join for an evening screening of the Great Indian Kitchen, a film that dives into gender, menstruation, caste, and the repetitive invisibility of domestic labor. A group discussion will follow the movie, so stay around for some collective reflections!
Please note: This film addresses sensitive topics such as gender-based violence, domestic roles, and patriarchal structures, which may be uncomfortable or triggering for some viewers!
See you there!
For any questions, please send a message to otherwise@wur.nl
Date: May 28
Time: 12:00 - 13:30, 14:00 - 16:00, 19:00 - 21:30
Location: Gaia, Forum
Sign up here !
May 28th is Global Menstrual Health Day!
Join us for a day of collective learning, reflection, and creative expression as we explore Menstrual Justice from multiple perspectives. We have prepared a day full of activities for you that will take place in the buildings of Gaia and Forum on campus.
Lunch talk & trivia (with special prizes): 12:00-13:30, Building Gaia, Plateau (1st floor)
An interactive conversation unpacking menstrual myths and misinformation. Together we'll reflect on the less-discussed realities of menstruation in an open and inclusive space!
Zine-making & Collage: 2:00 PM 4:00 PM, Building Gaia, Room: Gaia 2 (ground floor)
Explore personal and collective menstrual narratives using prompts and mixed materials. Join this session and experiment with themes of language, bodies, and fluids through zine-making and collage.
Internet and Degrowth: rethinking our relationship with the internet
Date and Time: May 29 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
June 6 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Old Library at the Clockhouse
This two-part workshop series aims to explore how to apply degrowth principles to our relationship with the internet. We hope to address our intricate and ever-growing digital entanglement, and reimagine our relationships with digital technologies from a holistic perspective — addressing the political, ecological and social dimensions of the internet.
This program aims for participants to be reflexive and recognize how they as individual users are connected to the larger internet infrastructure, and then to degrow from it through their own creative interventions.
In the first part of the workshop, there will be a presentation of how we can understand degrowth principles in relation to the internet, followed by a discussion of the practical ways a minimized and altered internet use could look. Participants will then commit to a week-long experiment where they'll apply one of these practices to their lives.
In our second session, we will discuss the findings of our experiments, and investigate what it would mean to shape our internet use in a more conscious and collective way — and together write a manifesto outlining what the internet could look like if it were driven by different values.
The workshops will be facilitated by Ayusha Chalise, a scholar studying how the internet interacts with our lives and what we can do about it.
Sign up to the workshop series at this link
Capita Selecta Course: A Great Circle With No Rim
A Great Circle With No Rim is a
1 ECTS evening Capita Selecta that investigates how to think, design, and act across different structures of time.
During these seminars, we will look at the role of time, in which we understand or imagine ourselves to be living, plays in the worlds we inhabit and the worlds we build. Looking back at how algorithmic time got incorporated into every major city-scape and, by extension, into our daily lives, we will examine how to measure and inhabit other temporal landscapes and how this could influence the way we understand power, urgency, past, and future. We will look at examples of temporal scapes in sci-fi literature, cinema, art, and environmental humanities to establish how an understanding of time is related to faith, a sense of purpose, and the reality of interventions that are considered possible, necessary, or urgent.
Find the course guide here !
Register here !
If you have any questions feel free to message us at otherwise@wur.nl