Posted on: February 12, 2019 Posted by: Shuzhao Xue Comments: 26

UvA Green Office Hosts its First Independent Lecture Event of 2019

Last Wednesday, February 6, more than 30 students attended the UvA Green Office event ‘Sustainable Transport: Innovations in Amsterdam’ at CREA’s theatre. The event was the office’s first independently-produced event of the year. Addressing the audience were Cornelia Dinca, founder of the consultancy Sustainable Amsterdam and delegation lead of the municipal organization Amsterdam Smart City, and Luca Bertolini, urban and regional planning professor at the UvA. The two speakers talked…

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Posted on: February 12, 2019 Posted by: Flo McQuibban Comments: 1

Supporting YouTube’s Humanity in Pewdiepie versus T-Series

Though YouTube is primarily a video sharing website where content can be uploaded both by individuals and by media corporations, it has also been an important platform to share news, promote change, and engage in competitions. YouTube’s intellectual side has even contributed to the digital presence of humanities and academia through educational channels such as Easy Languages and ASAPScience. But the channel with the most subscribers since 2013 – at…

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Posted on: February 11, 2019 Posted by: Isabel Bonnet Comments: 0

UNICEF and Enactus Gala: A Ball with a Point

UNICEF and Enactus Gala: A Ball with a Point February 11, 2019 By ISABEL BONNET Around 100 merrymakers attended the Winter Charity Gala hosted by the UNICEF Student Team Amsterdam and Enactus VU at CREA Café on Saturday, February 9.   The donations given for the event will be sent directly to a school in Aleppo, Syria. With CREA’s music hall successfully filled for the event, the event raised up…

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Posted on: February 8, 2019 Posted by: Sarah Iacobacci Comments: 4

Dress to Impact : A discussion on sustainable fashion

A mutual consensus was acknowledged at CREA on Tuesday night, as Merunisha Moonilal  proclaimed “Let’s face it girls, we all want to have something nice”, words that resonated with humbling notes of shameless indulgence. Flooded with a constant stream of ‘influencers’ spotting the latest trends provided by fast-growing retail markets, it’s easy to lose sight of the realities facing the people behind the production of such garments. Six years ago…

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Posted on: February 8, 2019 Posted by: Cara Raker Comments: 0

Chinese New Year in Amsterdam: What Is It and Where to Celebrate It

Chinese New Year in Amsterdam: What Is It and Where to Celebrate It February 08, 2019 By CARA RAKER The annual Chinese New Year Celebrations officially began this week on Tuesday and will last until February 19. According to the Chinese zodiac, each year is represented by a different animal and 2019 marks the beginning of the year of the pig. As one of the Chinese community’s most important holidays,…

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Posted on: February 8, 2019 Posted by: Ivy Wade Comments: 1

Female Genital Mutilation: a Borderless Issue, and a Call for Compassion

Female genital mutilation is not an easy thing to read and discuss, and it shouldn’t be. FGM and other dangerous body modifications are practices the Western world often imagines happening elsewhere. They are seen as something of another land, another culture, another neighborhood – but that is not the reality. FGM happens in front of our communal faces and we turn our eyes to shield our gaze because of culture,…

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