ART SCIENCE dialogue | Finance, systems and activism 17 October 2024 16:00 - 18:00

Artist Rob Voerman is often inspired by modernist architecture and the utopian ideas about society on which they are based. His work questions the way in which societies function and might function in the future. Often it is possible for the viewer to interact with the works; they can enter it and sleep, work and drink inside the installations.

Foundation Kaikoesie is committed to protecting and preserving the indigenous cultures of Suriname. Victor Bottenbley is a self-taught actor, director, autonomous artist, performer. Identifying as a member of the T’reweyu Kalina society of the Guyana region of Aryada (presently known as South America). As an artist, he aims to forwarding universal Abyalala indigenous ethical values and philosophical principles from conviction they provide a path to a less destructive anthropocene.

Xuan Wang is assistant professor at the department of Finance of the VU Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD (D.Phil) in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School in 2020. His research interests include monetary policy, financial regulations, and bankruptcy. He is a macro lecturer at Tinbergen Institute.

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach is professor of Ancient, Patristic and Medieval Philiphy at the Faculty of Humanities of VU Amsterdam. She engages with normative issues which are crucial to modern, pluralistic societies in her work on immigration ethics, cultural pluralism, structural injustice, etc. She seeks to relate her work in this field with her research on the new, burgeoning field of intercultural and comparative philosophy. Here, her main focus lies on how the plurality of standpoints driving this discipline of philosophy can be buttressed. In this regard, she also examines the role of intercultural and comparative philosophy in developing (societal) narratives which facilitate cross-cultural understanding.