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Wednesday 20 November 19:45 live music: Downtime 20:15 speakers Café Loburg, Wageningen Freedom, we all know the word and have our own perception of what freedom means to us and perhaps also to others. But did you ever wonder how the concept of freedom was perceived and how the meaning of freedom changed over the last 25 centuries in Europe and the United States? For centuries people in the West identified freedom not with being left alone by the state but with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. They had what might best be described as a democratic conception of liberty. The dominant conception of freedom today is a deliberate and enormous rupture with those ideas. Understanding the long history of thinking about freedom shows how recent our current perspective actually is. In this Science café we explore the history and current state of the concept freedom. Our speaker, Prof. Annelien De Dijn, will explain how the very nature of freedom can be interpreted in different ways by different people at different times. She will do so by providing a historic perspective and explaining the past and current (mis)usage of freedom for ideological, or individual rather than collective, purposes. https://lnkd.in/eZgnNkBy

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