Programme
The theme for TEDxRadboudU 2013 is Rebuilding Trust. To address this theme, the programme is comprised of four tracks. Each session will address a specific track.
Session 1:
- Video: Desmont Tutu – Welcome message
- Marc Slors - Trust, vulnerability, freedom
- Klaasjan Boon - Trust in animals
- Alan Sanfey – Trust and the relevance of guilt
- Tazuko van Berkel – Pay it forward!
- Video: Trust Fall and
- Video:
- Video: TEDTalk
- Enny Das – Trust & communication
- Ybo Buruma – Trust and the judiciary
Session 2:
- Tilman Andris - Distrust or bust
- Bart Jacobs - Fat, dumb, happy & under surveillance
- Ian Buruma – Rebuilding trust in China
- Video: TEDtalk ShaoLan Hsueh – Learn to read Chinese … with ease!
- Malou van Hintum – Facing the distrust of the government
- Paul Dekker - Political trust as public opinion
- Video: TEDtalk Hans Rosling – Stats that reshape your world-view
- Daniël Wigboldus - The dark side of trust
- Gabriëlle van Geffen – Shake hands with strangers
- SCuared - intermezzo
Session 3:
- the TIMSHEL trio – Trust & the art of improvising
- James S. Henry – The bizarre economics of tax havens and pirate banking
- Marc Lewis - Addiction and trust
- Kimberly Schelle – Transparency in science
- Video:
- Roshan Cools- Trusting science
- Jan Lavrijsen – Coma patients
- Step Vaessen – Hello stranger!
- SCuared - intermezzo
Session 4:
- SCuared - intermezzo
- Pauline Voortman,- Trust in organizations
- Video: TEDtalk Derek Sivers – How to start a movement
- Niek Janssen – Truth, beauty, love
- Pim Haselager – Can I trust my robot?
- Video: TEDtalk Michael Sandel – The lost art of democratic debate
- Robbert Dijkgraaf – Trust: looking back, looking forward
Moderator: Malou van Hintum
Drawings:
Tilman Andris
The magician lies – trusting him would be foolish. If we did, we would soon be led down the garden path. But distrust is no remedy for our predicament. Recognising the trickster for what he is, we still fall for his deceit – as long as our distrust does not extend to ourselves and our cognition. Luckily, for the trickster, it seldom does. Whoever thinks that he knows what he sees and that things are as they seem, should watch a performance by Tilman Andris. Tilman Andris studied philosophy at the University of Leiden and at the University of Oxford before becoming a professional magician.
Tazuko van Berkel
Wannabe fiction writer. Would-be singer-songwriter. Should-not-be politician.” That’s how Tazuko van Berkel characterizes herself on her account. Tazuko has analyzed the relation between friendship and economics in the Greek world of the 5th and 4th century B.C. Her present project focuses on numbers and calculations in ancient Greek democracy. The enormous presence of numerical data in ancient and modern society raises the question whether counting is “the religion of the current generation”. Tazuko van Berkel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Classical languages and cultures at .
Klaasjan Boon
As a biology student, Klaasjan Boon developed a passion for life in the broadest sense of the word. Whether it is animal behaviour, plant diversity or discussing the implications of biotechnology in society, Klaasjan is always interested in learning more, and enthousiastically spreads his knowledge, ideas and in general, his passion.
Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a cosmopolitan pur sang. Raised by an English mother and a Dutch father, he received his education both in Holland and in Japan, where he studied history, Chinese literature, and Japanese cinema. He lives in the United States. Ian writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects, most frequently for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times,and NRC Handelsblad. Ian is a journalist and a columnist and Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York.
Ybo Buruma
Ybo Buruma has always had a great interest in social and political questions. He has been engaged widely in public debates on trust in the judiciary, on crime as well as on law and politics. Ybo is Justice in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. Until 2011, Ybo was a professor of Criminal Law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He was Chair of the Commissie Posthumus II, the Committee for the Assessment of Closed Cases, that evaluated cases in order to find out about judicial errors.
Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools studies how our brain enables us to motivate ourselves and to direct our behavior at our goals. She investigates effects of drugs on motivation and goal-directed behaviour to assess the roles of brain chemicals, such as dopamine and serotonin. Her ultimate aim is to advance our understanding of what goes wrong in psychiatric disorders, and how such disorders can be treated. Roshan Cools is professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the department of psychiatry of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and principal investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.
Enny Das
Enny Das has a background in social psychology and communication science. Her research expertise lies in the domains of health communication and persuasion. She is interested in the impact of self-threatening information in medical decision making and public responses to risk. She also published on the influence of terrorism news reports on prejudice against outgroups. Enny Das is a professor of Communication and Persuasion at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Paul Dekker
Paul Dekker is a researcher in the field of social and political participation, including studies of voluntary associations, religious involvement and the non-profit sector in comparative perspective. Besides, public opinion has been a main topic in Paul’s recent work, focussing particularly on the negative public mood in the Netherlands and attitudes towards government and the European Union. Paul is a professor of Civil Society at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Head of the Participation and Government research unit of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research | SCP.
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Robbert Dijkgraaf is a leading mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. Many of his activities – which have included frequent appearances on Dutch television, a monthly newspaper column in NRC Handelsblad, several books for general audiences, and the launch of the science education website Proefjes.nl – are at the interface between science and society. He is a distinguished advocate for science and the arts. Robbert Dijkgraaf is currently Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Gabriëlle van Geffen
Gabriëlle van Geffen received her master’s diploma last April. She studied clinical psychology and loved her time as trainee when she started treating clients. She was an active student, who part in the Radboud Honours Academy and participated in the student board. Currently Gabriëlle’s main works is as a research assistant in a research project about a non-medical treatment for children with ADHD. Gabriëlle will talk about her experience with a buddy project and the link between prejudice and trust.
Pim Haselager
Pim Haselager has been fascinated by the possibilities of developing intelligent, socially interactive robots. Pim studied psychology and philosophy and is a principal investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His main research line is Theoretical Cognitive Science. He also teaches at the Universitade Estadual de São Paulo, Brazil, and at the Università degli studi di Trento, Italy. Pim is also a miserable but dedicated chess and guitar player.
James S. Henry
James S. Henry is the author of The price of Offshore revisited, in which he calculates that income revenue to governments is lost on more than ten percent of global wealth, that is 20 to 31 trillion dollars. He is chairman of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global development, economic, technology, and tax issues. He has served as Director of Economic Research (chief economist), McKinsey & Co.
As an investigative journalist, Henry’s articles have numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, US News, Manhattan Inc., Harpers, The Washington Monthly, Fortune, Business Week, Newsweek, Time, The Conference Board, The Tax Lawyer, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, El Financiero, and Slate. James Henry also wrote Blood Bankers and Pirate Bankers.
Malou van Hintum
Malou van Hintum is a political scientist and a journalist. She publishes in several papers and magazines (f.e. de Volkskrant, Psychologie Magazine, MGv, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Vraagstukken, Women’s Health). Every Wednesday you can find her column on volkskrant.nl. Her main topics are psychiatry, politics and gender issues.
Recently she wrote ‘Doe eens normaal. Over zin en onzin van psychiatrische diagnoses’, about psychiatry and the DSM-5. Together with Jakop Rigter she wrote ‘Ontwikkelingspsychopathologie bij kinderen en jeugdigen. Een inleiding’ that will be in the bookshop in May. She also wrote books in collaboration with others: ‘De Opvoedingscanon’, ‘Liefde à la carte. Trends in moderne relaties’ and ‘Werken na kanker’.
Besides speaking, Malou van Hintum is also the moderator of TEDxRadboudU.
Bart Jacobs
Bart Jacobs is an expert in computer security and its associated societal issues. His expertise concerns chip cards, and especially their use in privacy-friendly scenarios. He is best known for his group’s work on the national chip card for public transport in the Netherlands. Together with his students, he discovered a serious security flaw in the Dutch OV-chip card,which allowed it to be easily copied. Bart is a government advisor on the future of electronic voting in the Netherlands. Bart Jacobs is a Professor of Software Security and Correctness at Radboud University. He is also a member of the Cyber Security Council of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.
Niek Janssen
What makes a good story? And why can stories have such a lasting effect on us? These are the questions that keep Niek Janssen up at night. By studying and retelling ancient stories, he hopes to provide the modern audience with illuminating, entertaining, and inspiring new perspectives.
Niek Janssen is a research master’s student of Classical Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on ancient and early modern satirical and humorous literature. During his university education, Niek has played an active role in numerous student organizations and other projects.
Jan Lavrijsen
Photo: Wim Roefs
Jan Lavrijsen found his passion and mission as a physician in Nursing Home Medicine, nowadays called Elderly Care Medicine. His expertise is on the long-term care, dilemmas and decision making at the end of someone’s life, especially concerning young patients who never regain consciousness after an acute brain injury. In this long-term care setting, trust in medical technology shifts to trusting physicians to make the right, though difficult, decisions.
Jan Lavrijsen is a lecturer and senior researcher at the Department of Primary and Community Care, at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. He leads the research programme ‘Complex and Palliative Care’, in particular the group ‘Niemand tussen Wal en Schip’, dedicated to the severest outcomes of acquired brain injury. Jan Lavrijsen is a member of the European Task Force on Disorders of Consciousness, of the FORUM Centre for Ethics and Health and of several steering committees.
Marc Lewis
As a neuroscientist and one-time addict, Marc Lewis can draw on personal experience as well as scientific knowledge when it comes to understanding addiction. Years of drug abuse led him to a criminal conviction and dismissal from graduate school at the age of 27. Marc then kicked the habit, returned to school, and earned a PhD in developmental psychology (1989). After working as a professor at the University of Toronto for 21 years, he and his family recently moved to the Netherlands, where he now teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen. Marc Lewis conducts research on the neuroscience of addiction between his commitments as a pop-science writer, blogger, and speaker in the addiction community.
Alan Sanfrey
Alan Sanfey’s work focuses on how people make decisions in social settings. Factors such as trust and reciprocity are vital for the successful functioning of society, not only at interpersonal levels such as opening a door for someone else, but these influences also underlie complex agreements between companies and countries. Research by Alan’s group demonstrates that emotional factors such as guilt are important motivations behind these kinds of cooperative situations. Alan Sanfey is Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Kimberley Schelle
Photo: Tobias van Stijn
Kimberly’s main research interest is the interplay between humans and technology. She strives for a career that will shed light on this rapidly developing field, both from an ethical as well as an empirical perspective. During her studies Kimberly completed the disciplinary and the interdisciplinary Radboud Honours Programmes and was a founder and active member of several student organizations, for which she received the title of ‘most inspiring student of Nijmegen’ in 2012.
SCuared
SCuared is a singer-songwriter duo that is specialized in writing and performing custom made songs for lectures, congresses and debates. SCuared consists of Sanne Groen and Coen Bumann.
SCuared will, in a musical way, spicen up the announcement of the speakers of TEDxRadboudU.
Marc Slors
What can neuroscience really teach us about free will and who we are? Marc Slors recently intervened in the national debate about free will and the brain with his book Dat had je gedacht!. His position: neuroscience tells us next to nothing about free will, but it does provide us with the materials for a sophisticated view on who we are. In such a view consciousness plays a more indirect role. Marc is a professor of Philosophy of mind and cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen.
The TIMSHEL trio
The TIMSHEL trio – currently located in the Netherlands – started as a working band in 2010. With influences in jazz, improvised music and everything near by, the three young musicians merge their voices to develop their own approach and ideas with original compositions ever since. Piano, drums, cello – this rather unconventional setting opens the way for slightly different choices of interplay and improvisation, but still the familiar sound of a piano trio remains. The TIMSHEL trio shows that mutual trust is a crucial condition for sparkling and fragile improvisations. The Timshel trio consists of Malte Bogner, Jonathan Reiter and Veit Steinmann.
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Step Vaessen
Step Vaessen is an author and journalist with more than 15 years of experience in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her work at Dutch television NOS and Al Jazeera English has taken her across the archipelago and into areas that few get a glimpse of, including most Indonesians. Her book “Jihad With Sambal” has sold thousands of copies in her native country Holland, where she has spoken to sold-out crowds about what she has learned about tolerance, religion and the fragility of life in Indonesia.
Pauline Voortman
Pauline M. Voortman is a ‘reflective practitioner’. She works as a trainer and consultant and received her Ph.D. from the Erasmus University. Her research focuses on trust in organisations: what is trust, what is the function of trust in organisations, what are the determining conditions for creating trust? What are the effects of trust and how can we influence these conditions and effects? How can we create a culture of trust? While doing research she noticed that trust involves both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ topics of organising, which are typically treated separately, depending on the researcher’s background. She applies a multi-disciplinary approach, linking practice and science. The title of her book is ‘Vertrouwen werkt, over werken aan vertrouwen in organisaties’. Creating or restoring trust in organisations is her passion and her core business.
Daniël Wigboldus
Daniël’s research interests are many – among them: stereotyping and prejudice, impulsive versus reflective behavior, and language and communication. With his research he aims to answer questions concerning person perception. How do we form impressions of others? Daniël is a professor of Social and Cultural Psychology and Director of the School of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud Universiteit. He is one of the initiators of the Radboud Faces Database and of the Radboud Immersive Virtual Environment Research lab.
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