Writer in Residence
Every year, a Writer in Residence is appointed by VU Amsterdam to reflect on current issues facing the university as a social institution. The Writer-in-Residence Programme is concluded with a publication.
Interested in Désanne van Brederode’s publication? Then visit this year’s Abraham Kuyper Lecture. Would you like to read the works of other Writers in Residence? These publications aren’t for sale but only gifted as collector’s items in limited quantities. If you are interested in these publications, please send an e-mail with your motivation to info@vuuniversitypress.nl.
Bas Heijne
New technology promises us greater freedom, but also ensures that we can be controlled and manipulated more and more effectively. And at the same time, biology increasingly confronts us with the limits of our freedom. Man, as a product of evolution, appears to be ill-equipped for the enlightened view of humanity that I cherish so much. Progress in science unmistakably goes hand in hand with the reduction of man as an independent individual. So what is left of our freedom? Our striving for equality? Our desire for brotherhood? Is it possible to maintain some of the ideals that shaped me and promised me a better world in a world in which they are being undermined and denied from all sides — by politics, by science and by biology? In other words: is there an answer to the discontent?
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Désanne Van Brederode
Geen woorden voor -
Gustaaf Peek
Kiemen -
Babs Gons
Ik draag mijn tong in mijn borst -
Maxim Februari
Campusroman -
Arnon Grunberg
Blinde gehoorzaamheid -
Annelies Verbeke
De taal van de wereld -
Ernest van der Kwast
Jouw toekomst is mijn toekomst -
Nina Weijers
Hoe het licht binnenvalt -
Joost de Vries
Geometrie -
P.F. Thomése
De werkelijkheidsverbeteraar -
Kristien Hemmerechts
Uitgespuwd -
Ronald Giphart
De wake -
Renate Dorrestein
Pas goed op jezelf -
Christine Otten
Een echt verhaal -
Marcel Möring
Een lange weg -
Abdelkader Benali
De soefi