BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29131@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:​​Who dares to dream? DTSTAMP:20261020T191815Z DTSTART:20261112T160000Z DESCRIPTION:Why must we take the future into our own hands and believe in u topias again\,\nespecially now\, in a time of multiple crises? An evening of hope with German\nbestselling author and thinker Kübra Gümüşay and jour nalist Lara Billie Rense.\n\nThe climate crisis\, authoritarian rulers\, i nequality\, wars and the unchecked\npower of Big Tech and AI: the multiple crises of our time leave us feeling\npessimistic and hopeless. Prediction s of an impending apocalypse are growing\never louder. Who still dares to dream of a better future?\n\nYet all great achievements once began as utop ian ideas — from democracy and\nhuman rights to the fight against disease. “What we cannot imagine cannot come\ninto being\,” said the American writ er\, thinker and feminist bell hooks. Isn’t it\nprecisely now that we need utopias again? Where can we find inspiration in\nhistorical utopian exper iments and today’s real utopias? How can we train our\n“muscle of imaginat ion”? And how can we ensure that visions of the future are\nnot left to a privileged few\, but that we can shape the future together?\n\nWe will exp lore these questions with the renowned German author and thinker\nKübra Gü müşay. For her forthcoming book Zukünfte (“Futures”)\, she is exploring\nj ust futures\, real utopias and the politics of imagination in depth. The\n conversation will be moderated by journalist\, author and podcaster Lara B illie\nRense.\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nKübra Gümüşay is author of the bestselling book Sprache und Sein (“Speaking and\nBeing”) and founder of several award winning campaigns and organisations. She is\nhost of the talk series Utop ia Talks\n[https://www.thalia-theater.de/stueck/utopia-talks-mit-kuebra-gu emuesay-2023]\nand Widerstand & Leben (Resistance & Life). Her current res earch focuses on just\nfutures\, real utopias and the politics of imaginat ion. At the end of 2026\, her\nnew book Zukünfte (“Futures”) will be publi shed at Ullstein.\n\nLara Billie Rense works as a journalist across a wide range of platforms. Among\nother things\, she hosts Wat Blijft (“What Rem ains”) on NPO Radio 1 and has\nproduced several podcasts. In 2024\, she wr ote the book Een zee van ruimte (“An\nOcean of Space”). Rense is also a bo ard member of the Dutch House for\nJournalism.\n\n URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/who-dares-to-dream GEO:52.3685931;4.8896879 LOCATION:SPUI25 - Spui 25-27\, 1012 WX Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,democracy,spui,talk X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

​Why must we take the future into our own h ands and believe in utopias again, especially now, in a time of multiple c rises? An evening of hope with German bestselling author and thinker Kübra Gümüşay and journalist Lara Billie Rense.

​The climate crisis, a uthoritarian rulers, inequality, wars and the unchecked power of Big Tech and AI: the multiple crises of our time leave us feeling pessimistic and h opeless. Predictions of an impending apocalypse are growing ever louder. W ho still dares to dream of a better future?

​Yet all great achieve ments once began as utopian ideas — from democracy and human rights to the fight against disease. “What we cannot imagine cannot come into being,” s aid the American writer, thinker and feminist bell hooks. Isn’t it precise ly now that we need utopias again? Where can we find inspiration in histor ical utopian experiments and today’s real utopias? How can we train our “m uscle of imagination”? And how can we ensure that visions of the future ar e not left to a privileged few, but that we can shape the future together?

​We will explore these questions with the renowned German author and thinker Kübra Gümüşay. For her forthcoming book Zukünfte (“Fu tures”), she is exploring just futures, real utopias and the politics of i magination in depth. The conversation will be moderated by journalist, aut hor and podcaster Lara Billie Rense.

​Speakers

​Kübra Gümüşay is author of the bestselling book Sprache und Sein (“Speaking and Being”) and foun der of several award winning campaigns and organisations. She is host of t he talk series Utopia Talks and Widerstand & Leben (Resistance & Life). Her current research focuses on just futures, real utopias and the politics of imagination. At the end of 2026 , her new book Zukünfte (“Futures”) will be published at Ullstein .

​Lara Billie Rens e works as a journalist across a wide range of platforms. Am ong other things, she hosts Wat Blijft (“What Remains”) on NPO Radio 1 and has produced several podcasts. In 2024, she wrote the book Een zee va n ruimte (“An Ocean of Space”). Rense is also a board member of the D utch House for Journalism.

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