1.0Erasmus Magazinehttps://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/enThe gloomy Christmas of Erasmusrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="GQSqXcCY8c"><a href="https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2025/12/15/the-sombre-christmas-of-erasmus/">The gloomy Christmas of Erasmus</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2025/12/15/the-sombre-christmas-of-erasmus/embed/#?secret=GQSqXcCY8c" width="600" height="338" title="“The gloomy Christmas of Erasmus” — Erasmus Magazine" data-secret="GQSqXcCY8c" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/11/19164659/Ronald-van-Raak-column3-Levien-Pauline-scaled.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=176613926525601288War and peace, fact and fiction, good and evil. These are the kinds of oppositions that we humans use to understand the world around us. But the world itself is not so black and white at all. That is a message from Donna Haraway, who received the Erasmus Prize on 25 November from King Willem-Alexander, at the Royal Palace on Dam Square in Amsterdam.