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Room for Discussion is the discussion platform of the University of Amsterdam. Weekly interviews are organized with influential people from the economic and political world. Previous guests include; Christine Lagarde, Mario Draghi, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Larry Summers & Thomas Piketty.

Don’t miss our final🍻info-borrel!Meet our members, ask questions, and grab a free beer!📅 Thursday, March 13th at .amster...
11/03/2025

Don’t miss our final🍻info-borrel!

Meet our members, ask questions, and grab a free beer!
📅 Thursday, March 13th at .amsterdam

🚨 Applications close this Sunday on March 16th at 23:59.

💬 Connect with our committee, make a great first impression, and get all your questions answered. Can’t make it? Our DMs are always open!

Looking Back: Sustainability & Business with Nespresso’s Reineke Riemsdijk ☕Yesterday: Room for Discussion x ACD hosted ...
08/03/2025

Looking Back: Sustainability & Business with Nespresso’s Reineke Riemsdijk ☕

Yesterday: Room for Discussion x ACD hosted Reineke Riemsdijk, Nespresso’s Sustainability Lead, for a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities of sustainable business.

A big thank you to Reineke and everyone who joined!

How can the UN uphold its humanitarian mission in an increasingly polarized world? Has it ever truly fulfilled its purpo...
04/03/2025

How can the UN uphold its humanitarian mission in an increasingly polarized world? Has it ever truly fulfilled its purpose of protecting human rights, and what role does diplomacy play as global tensions rise?

Join us for a hybrid conversation with Jan Eliasson, former UN Deputy Secretary-General and President of the General Assembly, drawing on a lifetime of diplomacy and mediation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the defining debates of our time!

🗓️ Tuesday, March 11, 13:00 - 14:00
📍Roeterseiland campus, E-Hall

🤔 Want to learn more about Room for Discussion from our members themselves, ask questions, or have a free beer?Join us f...
21/02/2025

🤔 Want to learn more about Room for Discussion from our members themselves, ask questions, or have a free beer?

Join us for our info borrels next Wednesday (26th) and March 13th at .amsterdam

🚨 Applications close on March 16th at 23:59!

💬 This is your chance to make a great first impression and connect with our committee members. Can’t make it? Our DMs are always open!

📨 Applications Now Open!Join the Room for Discussion team and take part in one of the most exciting student-run intervie...
19/02/2025

📨 Applications Now Open!

Join the Room for Discussion team and take part in one of the most exciting student-run interview platforms! 🤩

We are looking for:
🎙 Interviewers – Conduct interviews with high-profile guests, invite speakers, prepare discussions, and collaborate with fellow interviewers.

📢 Marketing Officers – Shape our brand, manage social media, promote events, and expand our audience.

Deadline: March 16th, 23:59

Want to learn more? Join our 🍻 Borrels or DM us with any questions. 📄 Get your CV & Motivational Letter ready and apply now!

In our new episode 🎙️ of ‘The Ivory Tower,’ we speak to Erik Swyngedouw, professor of geography 🗺️ at the in the School...
14/02/2025

In our new episode 🎙️ of ‘The Ivory Tower,’ we speak to Erik Swyngedouw, professor of geography 🗺️ at the in the School of Environment, Education and Development and a member of the Manchester Urban Institute.

🧐 In the past decades, our knowledge about climate change has grown considerably. Why are we still not doing enough? Erik Swyngedouw says that we, in one way or another, enjoy climate change. Sounds weird?

Let´s see if, throughout this conversation, we can come to understand 🧠.

🎧Search for The Ivory Tower on and start listening today!

Room for Discussion is pleased to welcome to our stage Marietje Schaake, a leading advocate for internet freedom, cybers...
11/02/2025

Room for Discussion is pleased to welcome to our stage Marietje Schaake, a leading advocate for internet freedom, cybersecurity, and human rights in the digital age, who has been dubbed “Europe’s most wired politician.” Schaake was an MEP for D66 between 2009-19, and is currently the International Director of Policy at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. At a time when Big Tech and social media are rewriting the fabric of our societies and institutions, Schaake’s knowledge and experience are invaluable.

In this interview, we will be covering tech’s broken promise as a democratising force, now undermining democratic institutions; Silicon Valley’s ideological shift and Europe’s dilemma in balancing innovation and regulation.

Join us at the E-Hall on Wednesday, February 19th between 13:00 - 14:00

Our full interview with is now live on our YouTube channel!🔗Watch now — link in bio.
06/02/2025

Our full interview with is now live on our YouTube channel!

🔗Watch now — link in bio.

Martin Wolf is one of the most prominent voices in the world of politics and economics of our times. In an era of inequa...
06/02/2025

Martin Wolf is one of the most prominent voices in the world of politics and economics of our times.

In an era of inequality, political polarisation, and global power shifts, he asks the uncomfortable questions: Has capitalism betrayed democracy? Is rising authoritarianism a failure of the market—or the system itself? And most importantly, can we turn the tide before it’s too late?

We will explore those and other issues in our interview on Room for Discussion stage.

🗓️ Wednesday, February 12, 13:00 - 14:00
📍Roeterseiland campus, E-Hall

In our new episode 🎙️ of ‘The Ivory Tower,’ we speak to Dr. Olga Burlyuk, assistant professor of Europe’s external relat...
21/01/2025

In our new episode 🎙️ of ‘The Ivory Tower,’ we speak to Dr. Olga Burlyuk, assistant professor of Europe’s external relations at the .

📚We dive into one of Olga’s recent publications on how the EU’s internal rule of law crisis affects its legitimacy in the European neighborhood.

We also discuss her widely-praised article on epistemic imperialism, and Olga tells us about how curiosity and intuition have shaped her academic career.

🎧Search for The Ivory Tower on Spotify & Apple Podcasts and start listening today!

Room for Discussion continues itsIsrael-Palestine interview series, fostering open dialogue on the ongoing Gaza crisis a...
18/01/2025

Room for Discussion continues its
Israel-Palestine interview series, fostering open dialogue on the ongoing Gaza crisis and the broader conflict.

The first interviews featured Palestinian journalist Taghreed El-Khodary and Israeli writer Yossi Klein Halevi, offering on-the-ground insights. Upcoming talks will provide broader context, with Palestinian conflict researcher Nadim Rouhana and Israeli historian Hillel Cohen.

On the 24th of January, we will discuss the roots of the conflict and the relevance of a new narration of history with the Israeli historian Hillel Cohen.

Reserve your free tickets through the link in our bio and you will get notified about the location.

Room for Discussion continues its Israel-Palestine interview series, fostering open dialogue on the ongoing Gaza crisis ...
17/01/2025

Room for Discussion continues its Israel-Palestine interview series, fostering open dialogue on the ongoing Gaza crisis and the broader conflict.

The first interviews featured Palestinian journalist Taghreed El-Khodary and Israeli writer Yossi Klein Halevi, offering on-the-ground insights. Upcoming talks will provide broader context, with Palestinian conflict researcher Nadim Rouhana and Israeli historian Hillel Cohen.

On the 24th of January, we will discuss the roots of the conflict and the relevance of a new narration of history with the Israeli historian Hillel Cohen.

Reserve your free tickets through the link in our bio and you will get notified about the location.

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Who we are

Room for Discussion is the interview platform of the University of Amsterdam. We organise weekly interviews with professors, entrepreneurs, economists, politicians, philosophers, CEOs and journalists to talk and discuss relevant economic topics and recent events. Our goal? To help students close the gap between the world of academia and the world of economic and political reality.

Our ‘living room’ with its characteristic Chesterfields is situated in the central hall of the main building of the Faculty Economics and Business. This is in the E-building at the Roeterseilandcampus of the University of Amsterdam. The weekly interviews are open to all students from all universities. During the interview, the audience also gets the opportunity to ask questions to the guests on stage.

If you cannot make it to our living room for the interviews, you don’t have to miss a thing. Watch the interviews at home via the live stream or read the best bits in real-time by following us on Twitter. Please like us on Facebook as well, so we can keep you up to date on upcoming interviews and check out our website!

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