#ideeverbeelding — Public Fediverse posts
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Patrick Radden Keefe: How to Tell a Story
De Balie, Wednesday, September 30 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
The New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?
Few nonfiction writers have attained such stature that they appear as themselves in the HBO series Industry and serve as the face of a fashion brand. Patrick Radden Keefe is one of them. Keefe previously wrote groundbreaking accounts of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical empire made thousands of Americans addicted to prescription painkillers, as well as exposés of the Mafia underworld in New York’s Chinatown. In his reporting for The New Yorker, Keefe has profiled figures such as drug kingpin El Chapo and Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder. His research is so meticulous that he solved the murder of Jean McConville, a woman who was kidnapped and killed during the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland.
Patrick Radden Keefe weaves together deeply personal, often true-crime stories with broader social and political developments, using them to offer a diagnose of our times. A compelling example is his most recent book, London Falling. Following the mysterious death of a British teenager, it emerges that the boy had been leading a double life, posing as the heir to a Russian oligarch. Behind this personal tragedy lies a larger story: how London welcomed Russian billionaires with open arms, fundamentally reshaping the city and transforming it into what became known as ‘Londongrad.’
We’ll talk with Keefe about his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/patrick-radden-keefe-how-to-tell-a-story
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Patrick Radden Keefe: How to Tell a Story
De Balie, Wednesday, September 30 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
The New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?
Few nonfiction writers have attained such stature that they appear as themselves in the HBO series Industry and serve as the face of a fashion brand. Patrick Radden Keefe is one of them. Keefe previously wrote groundbreaking accounts of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical empire made thousands of Americans addicted to prescription painkillers, as well as exposés of the Mafia underworld in New York’s Chinatown. In his reporting for The New Yorker, Keefe has profiled figures such as drug kingpin El Chapo and Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder. His research is so meticulous that he solved the murder of Jean McConville, a woman who was kidnapped and killed during the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland.
Patrick Radden Keefe weaves together deeply personal, often true-crime stories with broader social and political developments, using them to offer a diagnose of our times. A compelling example is his most recent book, London Falling. Following the mysterious death of a British teenager, it emerges that the boy had been leading a double life, posing as the heir to a Russian oligarch. Behind this personal tragedy lies a larger story: how London welcomed Russian billionaires with open arms, fundamentally reshaping the city and transforming it into what became known as ‘Londongrad.’
We’ll talk with Keefe about his approach to reporting. What draws him to figures from the criminal underworld? How do you write journalistic true-crime stories without slipping into sensationalism? And how does he recognize a great story in the first place?
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/patrick-radden-keefe-how-to-tell-a-story
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Arnon Grunberg meets Ruth Franklin
De Balie, Wednesday, September 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Who was Anne Frank as a historical person, and how does her life relate to the global icon she has become? Ruth Franklin speaks with Arnon Grunberg on her book The Many Lives of Anne Frank.
Anne Frank’s diary has come to represent a universal message against hatred and prejudice. Meanwhile, her image has been drawn into widely differing and sometimes controversial political contexts, including comparisons between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in Gaza today. What is lost when Anne becomes a symbol for many causes at once? How do we balance the universal power of her words with the historical reality of her life as a Jewish girl targeted for extermination by the Nazis?
A conversation about how Anne Frank has been understood, misunderstood, and continually reinterpreted since the publication of her diary. How has her legacy been reshaped in an increasingly divided world, and what does it mean for a life to become a moral symbol?
About the speakersRuth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the year’s best nonfiction books by The New York Times, Time, and NPR, among others. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s. Franklin has received several major fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her earlier book, A Thousand Darknesses (2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arnon-grunberg-meets-ruth-franklin-1
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Arnon Grunberg meets Ruth Franklin
De Balie, Wednesday, September 2 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Who was Anne Frank as a historical person, and how does her life relate to the global icon she has become? Ruth Franklin speaks with Arnon Grunberg on her book The Many Lives of Anne Frank.
Anne Frank’s diary has come to represent a universal message against hatred and prejudice. Meanwhile, her image has been drawn into widely differing and sometimes controversial political contexts, including comparisons between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in Gaza today. What is lost when Anne becomes a symbol for many causes at once? How do we balance the universal power of her words with the historical reality of her life as a Jewish girl targeted for extermination by the Nazis?
A conversation about how Anne Frank has been understood, misunderstood, and continually reinterpreted since the publication of her diary. How has her legacy been reshaped in an increasingly divided world, and what does it mean for a life to become a moral symbol?
About the speakersRuth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the year’s best nonfiction books by The New York Times, Time, and NPR, among others. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s. Franklin has received several major fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her earlier book, A Thousand Darknesses (2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arnon-grunberg-meets-ruth-franklin-1
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How Wars End
De Balie, Thursday, June 25 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace,’ in which reconstruction appears to be approached primarily as a real-estate deal, we examine the politics of peace.
Linda Kinstler (journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) argues that in peace building, there should be space for ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’
How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented? And how is oblivion different from simply ignoring the past and start building a ‘riviera of the Middle East’, as Trump is intending?
Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book Come to This Court and Cry, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
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How Wars End
De Balie, Thursday, June 25 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace,’ in which reconstruction appears to be approached primarily as a real-estate deal, we examine the politics of peace.
Linda Kinstler (journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) argues that in peace building, there should be space for ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’
How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented? And how is oblivion different from simply ignoring the past and start building a ‘riviera of the Middle East’, as Trump is intending?
Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book Come to This Court and Cry, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
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Mohammad Rasoulof: The Aesthetics of Tyranny
De Balie, Friday, September 4 at 07:30 PM GMT+2
Mohammad Rasoulof is considered one of the most important modern-day Iranian filmmakers. In his films, he exposes the inner workings of the Iranian regime and shows how political oppression and corruption shape the everyday lives of Iranians.
Rasoulof’s films themselves have also been marked by repression. During this edition of The State of the World, Rasoulof uses excerpts from his own body of work to demonstrate how political repression not only determines what an artist can speak about, but also influences form, imagination, and artistic choices. Over more than twenty years of working under censorship, his cinematic language has evolved from allegorical and indirect to more direct, sharp, and confrontational.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s work has received widespread international acclaim. He won the Golden Bear for There Is No Evil (2020) and the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Seed of the Sacred Fig. That film directly engages with the protests and repression that followed the death of Mahsa Amini.
Shortly before the film’s premiere, Rasoulof fled Iran after once again being sentenced to imprisonment because of his work and his criticism of the regime.
Ticketsale via Nederlands Theater Festival, the event will be held in De Balie’s Grote Zaal.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/mohammad-rasoulof-the-aesthetics-of-tyranny
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After Atrocity
De Balie, Thursday, June 25 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Linda Kinstler (a journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) studies ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’
How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? And is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented?
Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book Come to This Court and Cry, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
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After Atrocity
De Balie, Thursday, June 25 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Linda Kinstler (a journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) studies ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’
How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? And is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented?
Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book Come to This Court and Cry, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
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Pavel Krisevich: Russian Activist Prison Art
De Balie, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
After initially being denied entry by the Dutch government, De Balie is pleased to welcome Pavel Krisevich. Artist Pavel Krisevich was held in Russia’s prison system for 3,5 years after staging performance art in support of political prisoners in Russia. Last year, Krisevich was released and will now speak at De Balie.
The performance art of Pavel Krisevich is as spectacular as it is fearless. He tied himself to a large cross like a Jesus figure in front of the headquarters of the FSB, Russia’s secret service, with a burning bonfire of files of political prisoners beneath him. In 2021, Krisevich staged a suicide on Red Square in Moscow to draw attention to the abominable situation of political prisoners in Russia. It earned him a five-year prison sentence. From his cell, Krisevich bravely continued making art; using his own blood as material, he portrayed the bleak life in prison. Work from this series was previously shown at De Balie during the exhibition Artists Against the Kremlin.
At De Balie, Krisevich will speak about the power of art as resistance against an all-dominating system. He is joined by journalist Paul Alexander, whose new book ‘Bloed, as en tandpasta’ portrays the life of political prisoners in Russia’s penal system through Krisevich’s prison art. How does the current prison system resemble the Soviet Camps? And what drives the political prisoners in their virtually hopeless struggle against an all-powerful regime?
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pavel-krisevich-russian-activist-prison-art
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Pavel Krisevich: Russian Activist Prison Art
De Balie, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
After initially being denied entry by the Dutch government, De Balie is pleased to welcome Pavel Krisevich. Artist Pavel Krisevich was held in Russia’s prison system for 3,5 years after staging performance art in support of political prisoners in Russia. Last year, Krisevich was released and will now speak at De Balie.
The performance art of Pavel Krisevich is as spectacular as it is fearless. He tied himself to a large cross like a Jesus figure in front of the headquarters of the FSB, Russia’s secret service, with a burning bonfire of files of political prisoners beneath him. In 2021, Krisevich staged a suicide on Red Square in Moscow to draw attention to the abominable situation of political prisoners in Russia. It earned him a five-year prison sentence. From his cell, Krisevich bravely continued making art; using his own blood as material, he portrayed the bleak life in prison. Work from this series was previously shown at De Balie during the exhibition Artists Against the Kremlin.
At De Balie, Krisevich will speak about the power of art as resistance against an all-dominating system. He is joined by journalist Paul Alexander, whose new book ‘Bloed, as en tandpasta’ portrays the life of political prisoners in Russia’s penal system through Krisevich’s prison art. How does the current prison system resemble the Soviet Camps? And what drives the political prisoners in their virtually hopeless struggle against an all-powerful regime?
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pavel-krisevich-russian-activist-prison-art
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Plein Publiek: Andy Pavlov
De Balie, Friday, June 5 at 05:30 PM GMT+2
Andrija Pavlović, also known as Andy Pavlov, is a pianist and composer. Blending piano, orchestral, and electronic music, he developed a style uniquely his own that traverses genres and boundaries.
With seventeen albums, a successful piano duo, LP Duo, and contributions to theatre, film, and television, Andy Pavlov’s oeuvre is remarkably wide-ranging. Yet experimentation has always remained at its core.
In 2015, together with LP Duo and a group of scientists at TU Delft, he developed the innovative musical instrument DUALITY Portable Hybrid Piano. In 2022, he was Artist in Residence at Delft University of Technology, where he researched the connections between quantum physics and music.
Stefan Malešević speaks with Pavlov about his rich and diverse body of work.
About Plein PubliekPlein Publiek is a series of in-depth interviews with leading creators, selected by our own programmers. Expect intimate conversations with exceptional voices that will make you think.
Start your weekend with a drink, a good conversation, and fresh insights in the welcoming atmosphere of our Pleinzaal, located on the vibrant Leidseplein.
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Was Freud Right All Along?
De Balie, Wednesday, June 10 at 05:00 PM GMT+2
Might psychoanalysis, so often dismissed as speculative or outdated, still offer one of the most profound ways of understanding mental suffering? What happens when Freud meets modern neuroscience? Can the unconscious be studied through the brain?
Who still lies on the couch? Once, psychoanalysis was a widely recognized and popular form of therapy. But this pioneering therapy developed by Sigmund Freud at the end of the nineteenth century, is now often regarded with suspicion by modern science, or even considered outdated: unproven, inefficient, and expensive. More solution-focused forms of treatment, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and medication, have displaced the talking sessions of psychoanalysis.
But did we perhaps dismiss psychoanalysis too quickly? According to South African neuropsychologist Mark Solms, the answer is yes. More than any other form of therapy, psychoanalysis approaches human experience as something greater than brain activity alone, and mental well-being as more than merely the chemistry of the brain that can be altered with a pill. At the same time, evidence from neuropsychology itself suggests that psychoanalysis can have positive and lasting effects, Solms argues in his new book, The Only Cure.
Psychiatrist Damian Denys will engage in conversation with Solms: was Freud right all along?
About the speakersMark Solms is an globally acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, known for the integration of contemporary neuroscience with psychoanalytic methods and theories, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is the Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, the Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
Damiaan Denys has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam UMC. He currently leads the Lemon Tree center, an interdicisplinary center for psychiatry, philosophy and psychotherapy at the UVA. He was Chair of the Senate at the University of Amsterdam from 2012 to 2018 and President of the Dutch Association for Psychiatry from 2016 to 2019.