Winners & Losers
Winners and losers: an evolutionary perspective
Lee Dugatkin
Date: Monday 4 February 2013
Audio recording lecture Lee Dugatkin
‘Winners will be winners’ and ‘losers will be losers’. But why did this evolve and how does it affect the group?
Humor Doesn't Travel?
Jewish comedy: Zelig
Introduction by Stefan van der Poel
Directed by Woody Allen, 1983, 79 min.
Date: Thursday 14 March 2013
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him.
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Humor Doesn't Travel?
English comedy: The Meaning of Life
Introduction by Elena Gualtieri
Directed by Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1983, 107 min.
Date: Thursday 25 April 2013
Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth.
Humor Doesn't Travel?
French comedy: Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis
Introduction by Jeanette den Toonder
Directed by Dany Boon, 2008, 106 min.
Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
A man from the beautiful South of France has to move to the far North. He expects to find a dreadful cold place full of strange rednecks speaking an incomprehensible dialect. But the reality turns out to be different than the prejudice.
Debt
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Film premiere and discussion with Dirk Bezemer
Organized by the Faculty of Economics and Business, in cooperation with EBF (Risk, Marug, Vesting) and Studium Generale.
Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Time & Location: 4 - 6 p.m. | Aletta Jacobs Hall, Blauwborgje 4, Groningen
Admission: free
Money is nothing more than debt created by banks. On the one hand this has led to our enormous wealth but on the other hand it is responsible for the recent mortgage bubbles and financial crisis. How does a debt crisis work? And how can we prevent crises and get out of our current one?
