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Déjà VU Festival

The summer event of the year for students, alumni and employees! 16 June 2022.

With spoken word, music, lectures, interviews, talk shows, food trucks, a festival market and more.

Watch the programmes 

Did you enjoy the festival? Or couldn't you be there? Then it's time to relive the festival. Check out the after movie! Or watch the Abraham Kuyper Lecture here. Also available: talkshow The War Room. 

Here you can watch the report of VU Campus radio.

Photo report

Check out some photos of the festival here

Line-up highlights
Babs Gons | S10 | Jaap Seidell | Kathleen Ferreir | Froukje | Kilian Wawoe | Gaidaa | Meike Bartels | Shishani | Gallowstreet | Serena Does | Bas Jacobs | Andrea Maier | Ester Gould | Andries Tunru | Mirte Hartland and many others.

Check out the programme here

Déjà VU Festival 2023

See you next year! 16 June 2023.

The Déjà VU festival is made possible by: VUvereniging | Cultuurcentrum Griffioen | Rialto | De Schrijverscentrale 

Déjà VU Festivalprogramme

  • Main stage | Campus square

    Host Andries Tunru

    17:00 - 17:45 Brotherhood Brassband

    18:00 - 18:15 Opening festival - Jeroen Geurts

    18:15 - 19:00 S10

    19:30 - 20:15 Gaidaa

    20:45 - 21:30 Froukje

    22:00 - 22:45 Gallowstreet

    22:45 - 23:00 Closure by Marcel Nollen & Uilenkatten

  • The War Room | NU-gebouw | Griffioen Theatre 2

    War and Peace

    Host Jacobine Geel

    19:00 - 19:30 Flash lectures

    Psychology and crises | Paul van Lange
    Crises, conspiracy and religion |Miranda Klaver
    Fake news and conspiracy in times of crises| Jan-Willem van Prooijen

    19:30 - 20:00 Pacs Talkshow

    The refugee does not exist | Mohammed Badran, Martijn Stronks & Paul van Lange

  • Campus Beach party silent disco | Beach volleyball area | Campus square

    Silent Disco DJ channel 1

    17:00 - 18:30 Merlijn

    18:30 - 20:00 Sherafatis

    20:00 - 21:30 Patico

    21:30 - 23:00 DJ-Navy

    Silent Disco DJ channel 2

    17:00 - 18:30 Jort Kroon

    18:30 - 20:00 Mats Kuhlman

    20:00 - 21:30 Stoffer & Blic

    21:30 - 23:00 Linote

  • Abraham Kuyper Lecture | NU Building Griffioen Theatre 2

    Host Kila van der Starre

    17:00 - 18:00 Ik draag mijn tong in mijn borst | Abraham Kuyper Lecture by writer in residence Babs Gons | Kathleen Ferrier, Wim Manuhutu, Onias Landveld, Rachel Rumai, Shishani, Mirte Hartland & Jeroen Geurts

  • The happy place | NU building | Theatre 1

    As long as you’re healthy

    Host Jeroen Geurts

    19.00 - 19.20 Flash lectures

    Healthy poison | Freek Vonk video lecture

    Prevention is better | Andrea Maier

    19.20 - 19.55 Talkshow 

    Personalised medicine | Marc Kaptein, Maaike Muntinga & Geert Kazemier

    The pursuit of happiness

    Host Ernest van der Kwast

    20:00 - 20:25 Flash lectures

    The scent of happiness Inger Leemans

    20:25 - 20:50 Talkshow

    Happily ever after | Brenda Penninx & Meike Bartels 

    20:50 - 21:15 Talkshow

    The euphoria of topsports Peter Beek & Shona Shukrula

  • Apocalypse now? | NU building | Theatre 3

    Host Hajar Yagkoubi

    19:00 - 19:20 Talkshow 

    Climate Change & Extreme weather events | Pier Vellinga

    19:20 - 19:45 Flash lecture

    Eating the planet | Jaap Seidell

    Recht op de toekomst | Erno Eskens

    19:45 - 20:30 Talkshow 

    Fundamental rights | Hiske Arts, Michel Scholte & Marjolein Dieperink

  • The War Room | NU Building | Griffioen Theatre 2

    War and peace

    Host Jacobine Geel

    19:00 - 19:20 Flash lecture

    Conspiracy busters | Jan-Willem van Prooijen & Miranda Klaver

    19:20 - 20:00 Pacs Talkshow

    The refugee does not exist | Mohammed Badran, Martijn Stronks & Paul van Lange


    The gap between rich and poor 

    Host Ester Gould

    20:00 - 20:20 Flash lecture

    Saving the world with math | Sandjai Bhulai

    20:20 - 21:00 Talkshow

    Inequality | Serena Does, Peter Lanjouw & Bas Jacobs

    21:00 - 21:15 Flash Lecture

    Working together after Covid | Kilian Wawoe

  • Spoken Word | Garden Theatre | Campus square

    Hosts Bas Gons & Mirte Hartland

    19:00 - 21:00 Jasper Albinus | Benzokarim | Youandi | Gershwin Bonevacia | Eugenie Boon | Danielle Zawadi | Shishani | Sjaan Flikweert | Rachel Rumai | Onias Landveld | Tasha Mhishi | Zaïre Krieger and more

  • BOOM VU got Talent | NU building | Griffioen Theatre 5

    Host Miranda van Holland

    19:00 - 20:15 Best Of Open Mic sessions 3D & Griffioen

  • Rialto movie | NU building

    21.00 - 22.45 Hit the road

    Iranian road movie in which a mother, father, eldest and youngest son are in a car on their way to the border. The eldest son wants to leave his homeland.

    Tickets via Rialto

  • Experience labs

    Human Performance Lab | Hein Daanen

    19.00 - 19.20 Excursion 1
    19.20 - 19.40 Excursion 2
    19.40 - 20.00 Excursion 3

    Led by professor of exercise physiology Hein Daanen, you can experience what it is like to stand in a climate chamber. In the climate chamber, research is carried out into the thermal management of humans. A temperature of -20 to +60 degrees Celsius can be simulated. It is also possible to adjust the humidity and simulate height by adjusting the oxygen concentration. This allows different climates to be simulated, for example to prepare athletes for the Olympic Games. Hein will also take you to various rooms where research is carried out into movement. Curious? Register here quickly because there is limited space!

  • Innovation Expo | Campus square at NU-building entrance

    17:00 - 20:00 Innovation Expo

    VU Start-ups present their latest innovations and applications. With VR experiences by MindReality and Magicleap, a new type of fire extinguisher by Flame Away, have your health and blood values checked by Fitsurance, the latest ergonomic insights by PreActive and Active Classroom, cups of coffees with supplements by Cupplement, information about start-ups and research at the VU by IXA & Demonstrator Lab

  • Mini exhibition: innovation in VU history  | NU-gebouw NU-building | Atrium

    18:00 - 19:00 Ab Flipse, university historian

    19:00 - 20:00 Willemien van Dijk, Curator of Old Printings: innovation in book printing

    20:00 - 21:00 Liselotte Neervoort, curator Academic Heritage

  • Meeting points | NU-gebouw

    Find your old fellow students and teachers and have a drink together at the faculty meeting point!

    Balcony (1st floor)

    19:00 - 19:30 Faculty of Social Sciences
    20:30 - 21:00 Faculty of Law

    Foyer (2nd floor)

    19:00 - 19:30 School of Business and Economics

    19:45- 20:15 Faculty of Science

    20:30 - 21:00 Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences

    The Loft (2nd floor)

    19:00 - 19:30 Faculty of Humanities| Faculty of Religion and Theology
    20:30 - 21:00 Faculty of Medicine| Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam

Line-up highlights

Music
Déjà VU proudly presents 3 strong musical women on the main stage: S10, who represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest. Gaidaa, the Sudanese-Dutch queen of neo-soul. And singer-songwriter Froukje, who made her breakthrough in the middle of the Corona crisis.
Spoken word
In the open-air theater we present a wonderful musical Spoken Word program that was specially composed for the festival by writer in residence Babs Gons. Babs Gons is an important spokeswoman within this rich oral tradition in the Netherlands. Nowadays, it is an indispensable literary genre in which protest voices are interpreted in rhythmic poetry that addresses your humanity.
The War Room
In the war room, we tackle serious issues: war and peace and inequality.
Apocalypse Now?
Forest fires in Siberia, severe floods, killer heatwaves, extreme storms, rising temperatures; for everyone who refuses to look away any longer and wants to think and act on the solutions, we offer the programme Apocalypse Now.
Healthy and Happy
We all want to be healthy and happy. But how do you get there? With healthy poison, good exercise, tailor-made treatments, enjoying (top) sport, a nice workplace and perhaps by not chasing happiness too literally.
Abraham Kuyper Lecture 2022
The Abraham Kuyper Lecture is the final chord of the Writers in Residence's tenure. During the programme the booklet will be presented with the text Writer in Residence Babs Gons has written for the university.