TEDx UtrechtUniversity

Thank you all for buying your tickets to TEDxUtrechtUniversity 2016! We are now sold out. For those of you attending the event, please have your ticket ready (in print or on your phone). We will be scanning the barcodes at the entrance. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 06 in the Academiegebouw (http://tedxutrechtuniversity.org/venue). Registration starts at 19:00.

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Following the event, at 23:00, we will be hosting an after-party (http://facebook.com/events/478064345730796) at the UCSA College Bar (Maupertuusplein 1, 3584 EE Utrecht). This after-party is open to everyone, whether you managed to purchase a TEDxUtrechtUniversity ticket or not. We look forward to seeing you there!

More information about the event can be found on our website, including the full list of speakers and performers. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us here: http://tedxutrechtuniversity.org/contact

Next up in our TEDxUtrechtUniversity speaker announcements, we have Dirk-Jan Koch!

Dirk-Jan is a diplomat, writer and social scientist. He is highly committed to a world in which natural resources are used in a sustainable way. Before re-joining the Ministry of Foreign affairs, he served as Search for Common Ground’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He oversaw more than 200 staff and conflict resolution programs in Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, the DRC, and Angola. He supervised a diverse array of programs ranging from the amnesty program in the oil-rich Niger Delta program to the demilitarization of the tin-mines in the DRC. He started his career as a diplomat and policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was based in the Hague and in the DRC, where he focused on the linkages between conflict and the exploitation of gold and diamonds. Being an author of several books, articles, and working papers, focusing on natural resources, international development, and diplomacy, his work has appeared in French, English, Catalan, German, and Dutch. He is a much-invited public speaker and gave public lectures at the Brookings Institute in Washington and the OECD Development Centre, amongst others. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences (cum laude) from Radboud University, a Masters’ from the London School of Economics (merit), and a Bachelor’s from the University of Utrecht (cum laude). He has been a part-time professor at the Catholic University of Kinshasa.

It's time to introduce our final TEDxUtrechtUniversity 2016 team member, Carlijn Huesken! Thank you all for buying your tickets over the past month. We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Carlijn is our head of sponsors. She's a third-year social science student, majoring in Psychology and Geography. Carlijn has always been fascinated by the captivating and high-calibre clips that TED is known for. One of her all-time favourite talks is Emilie Wapnick’s ‘Why some of us don’t have one true calling' (http://ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling). Carlijn can fully relate to Wapnick's talk as she is interested in a vast range of subjects herself, which is likely a result of her international background, where she grew up living across three different continents. During her three years at UCU she's been interested in almost all possible fields of study and has changed her mind regarding her major more times than she can count. To Carlijn's relief, Wapnick explains that there is nothing wrong with having a broad range of interests. In fact, this simply makes you a 'multipotentialite'.

To continue our TEDxUtrechtUniversity speaker announcements, we are excited to introduce you to Hinze Hogendoorn!

Hinze is an assistant professor at the department of Experimental Psychology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at Utrecht University. His research interests lie in the temporal aspects of perception, particularly vision. How does the brain generate a coherent stream of visual awareness, when different visual features are processed separately in different places in the brain and at different times? And how does it generate the illusion that we live in the present, when the neural processes underlying visual perception necessarily take time (thereby incurring delays that are long enough that we should notice them)? These are some of the questions that his research seeks to address.

You can register for your ticket to TEDxUtrechtUniversity at http://tedxutrechtuniversity.org
April 06, 2016 (19:00) Academiegebouw