ROB RIEMEN. Curriculum Vitae 2016

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1 ROB RIEMEN Writer and cultural philosopher Founder, President & CEO of the Nexus Institute Founder & Editor of Nexus, essayistic journal for cultural philosophy Curriculum Vitae 2016 Personal details Place of birth Netherlands, 18 February 1962 Education Master s Degree in Theology, Cum Laude. Tilburg University, 1992 Married to Eveline Riemen - Van der Ham Address Nexus Institute, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, the Netherlands Websites & (English & Dutch) Advisory Boards Office of Global Affairs, Occidental College, The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles, USA; Center for Democracy and Social Peace Studies (CDSPS) in Alexandria, Egypt Honours Officer s Cross, Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria Writer and cultural philosopher Publications Books The University of Life, Tilburg: Nexus Institute, Second edition. Released in Catalonia and Croatia. The Eternal Return of Fascism, Amsterdam: Atlas, In the Netherlands over copies have been sold. The essay has also been released in Croatia, France, Greece, Indonesia, Poland and Portugal. Nobility of Spirit. A Forgotten Ideal, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, With an introduction by George Steiner (2 nd edition). Published in Brasil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Israel, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands ( copies sold, 8 th edition), Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United States. Selected Essays published in the Nexus journal (in Dutch) The Return of Europe Nexus 70, 2016 The Triumph of Science (available in English) Nexus 66, 2014 How to Change the World? (available in English) Nexus 63, 2013 Superman meets Beethoven (available in English) Nexus 57, 2011 A Passion for Faith, Death, and Freedom Nexus 54, 2009 The Genesis of Nexus (available in English) Nexus 50, 2008 What Is an Educated Man? Nexus 49, 2007 The Paradox of Democracy Nexus 43, 2005

2 Published Essays Some Notes on How We Should Imagine Human Beings in an Inhuman Age, Berkowitz, R. (editor). The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. Dinner in River Café. Pils, H., Kühn, K. (editors): Elisabeth Mann Borgese und das Drama der Meere, De geboorte van de gemaksmens en het verraad van de elite. In Reijngoud, T. (editor): Weten is meer dan meten. Spraakmakende opinieleiders over de economisering van de samenleving, Vorwort. Shmueli, I. Zeitläufe. Ein Brief, Selected Lectures 2015 Maison du Future, Beirut, Lebanon Across the Mediterranean: European Fascism on the Resurgence? Universidad Anahuac, Mexico City The Spirit of Resistance, on the occasion of the Opening of the Academic Year Literary Festival, Athens, Greece Mass Democracy and Fascism 2014 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. Notes on Art and Culture in the 21 st Century 2013 Distinguished Lecture Series at the Center for Democracy and Social Peace Studies, Library of Alexandria, Egypt Europe s Dark Secret. Tired of Democracy, in Love with Fascism 2012 Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden What Gives Life to Life? Critical Thinkers, Concert Hall Amsterdam, Music Hall Eindhoven, Netherlands The Secret of Life, followed by a Shostakovich concert, Calefax Reed Quintet Mário Soares Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal The Spirit of Resistance Concert Hall, Bruges, Belgium Doctor Faustus, followed by a Webern and Schönberg concert, Goeyvaerts String Trio 2011 Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands Over a young people listened to Why Have We Forgotten What Is Important in Life? Liberation Day Commemoration Lecture, Utrecht University, Netherlands The Spirit of Resistance L Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici da Benedetto Croce, Naples, Italy True Greatness Barlaeus, Vossius, Ignatius and 4 th Gymnasium, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Ethics of Difference

3 University of Zagreb, Croatia The Eternal Denial of Fascism Tilburg University Society, The Hague, Netherlands The Ethics of Politics. Also with Ruud Lubbers, Prime Minister Conaculta. The National Council for Culture and the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico Keynote lecture Literature as a Means to Create the Nobility of Spirit 2010 OECD, Mexican Government, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Building the Future Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center, USA How Should We Imagine Human Beings in an Inhuman Age? Washington University, Danforth University Centre, USA The Ethics of Literature UNAM Symposium What Can Non-Believers Believe In? Ethics for Contemporary Society, Mexico Keynote lecture A Knowlegde of the Heart. An Ethics for Non-Believers 2009 Book Fair Forum, Oaxaca, Mexico The Function of Literature University of California, Center for Ideas and Society, USA Therapy or Thinking? About Education and Society University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, USA Faith, Art, and Truth in the Twenty-First Century 2009 University of Bloomington, Yale University, University of Texas, USA Faith, Art, and Truth in the Twenty-First Century 2008 The Aspens Institute s Festival of Ideas, USA The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2007 The Aspen Institute s Festival of Ideas, USA The Philosopher for President. The Intellectual and the Good Society 2006 The Aspen Institute s Festival of Ideas, USA Kitsch and the Crisis of the West 2005 Juilliard School of Music, New York, USA, series of three lectures Nietzsche Contra Wagner; Thomas Mann s Doctor Faustus and the Ethics of the Artist; The Unanswered Question: Kitsch or Sacrifice?

4 Symposia and Public Debates 2014 Bard College Berlin, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Hannah Arendt Center, German Association for East European Research, Germany. What Europe? Ideals to Fight for Today Birbeck, University of London, UK The Challenge of Extreme Right in Europe: Past, Present, Future 2013 Center for Democracy and Social Peace Studies, Library of Alexandria, Egypt - Seeing Meaning is Seeing Connections. Some Notes Towards Books and the Quest for True Knowledge - Freedom and Democracy 2012 House of Lords, Westminster, London, UK Moral Foundations of Commercial Society Battle of Ideas Festival, London, UK Building an Intellectual Legacy the Battle for Which Ideas? STUK Theatre, Leuven, Belgium Unheard, on the Relation between High Art and Society Mind the Book Festival, Antwerp, Belgium The Eternal Return of Fascism 2011 Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France Un cri pour la culture Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands The New Elite Incubate, Festival for Independent Culture, Tilburg, Netherlands Why Deny Fascism? Founder, President & CEO of the Nexus Institute Professional Accomplishments 1994 present Nexus Institute The Nexus Institute, founded by Rob Riemen, brings together the world s foremost intellectuals, artists, politicians and other decision makers, and has them think and talk about the questions that really matter. How are we to live? How can we shape our future? Can we learn from our past? Which values and ideas are important, and what are their premises? In doing so, the Nexus Institute places itself at the very centre of the Western cultural and philosophical debate. In the best European humanist tradition, its annual Conferences, Lectures, Symposia and Masterclasses, open to all and visited by over a 1000 people, have become a prestigious European platform for informed intellectual debate on the most

5 pressing contemporary issues. The same spirit of tolerance and erudition is upheld in the journal Nexus and the Nexus Library Series. The Nexus Institute has hosted speakers such as Garry Kasparov, Daniel Barenboim, Sonia Gandhi, Jürgen Habermas, Amartya Sen, Mario Vargas Llosa, Elisabeth Mann Borghese, George Steiner, Antonio Damasio, Slavoj Žižek, John Coetzee, Leszek Kolakowski, Simon Schama, Claudio Magris, Simon Rattle, A.S. Byatt, Carlo Ginzburg, Richard von Weizsäcker, Robert Hughes, Ismail Serageldin, Salam Fayyad, and many others present Journal Nexus The journal Nexus is an essayistic journal for cultural philosophy, printed in Dutch, in book form. Nexus is issued three times a year. Authors from all over the world are invited to write on cultural and philosophical themes. All Nexus issues have their own theme, as do the issues published after a Nexus Conference (the proceedings). The journal has over 2500 subscribers.