December stories 2019

How do you prevent a fight at Christmas dinner? Does theology go together with ‘earthly’ issues such as economics? What are students doing to help others? In the run-up to Christmas, EM wrote a few december stories.

To get in the Christmas mood, we set off with students doing something good for the world. In the first part: Alex feels obliged to help people. Episode two is about Tessa who helps eight hours a week in a care home. IBA-student Denise goes to Albania to help survivors of the earthquake and tells about this in the third piece. For the fourth and final story we spoke with Karel, Dico and Sander. Every year around Christmas they spend an evening with homeless people.

Peaceful Christmas dinner

How do you prevent a heated discussion with your uncle during Christmas dinner? Cultural sociologist Willem de Koster explains how you can safely navigate between the cliffs in these times of polarisation.

Christ and economics

Lans Bovenberg and Paul van Geest did something very unusual: a few weeks ago, they presented a joint inaugural lecture. An economist and a theologian discuss why the two disciplines need each other.

From RSM to EUC

After twenty years at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Professor Gabriele Jacobs is moving to Erasmus University College, where she is succeeding Wim Hafkamp as dean. In the EUC building, she talks about her drives, the conflict between societal impact and top science, her introduction to the Netherlands from a boat and the painfulness of diversity.

How to juggle studying for exams and raising a child

Gvantsa Kikalishvili and Kimberly Walden are parents, and students at the same time.