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About SPUI25
SPUI25 is an academic-cultural centre located on Amsterdam’s Spui square. It is a vibrant forum on the capital's book square that forges a link between the University of Amsterdam and the world of cultural practice in the broadest sense. The centre’s activities oscillate between science and the imagination, between fact and fiction.
The 80-seat hall at SPUI25 offers a forum for lectures, debates and interviews, but also book presentations, discussions and award ceremonies. SPUI25 targets both the academic community of researchers, lecturers, alumni and students, as well as a wide public with broad literary and cultural interests.
It acts as a living academic-cultural magazine that stands out from other forums in Amsterdam by virtue of its links to academia, its flexibility, and intimate scale. Ad-hoc programming enables a fast response to current affairs.
The cultural element in the programming is reflected by the delineation of the sphere of activities; the academic element finds expression in the mandate to always allow for reflection, scope and knowledge exchange as part of the activities.
The partners of SPUI25:
- Amsterdam University Association (AUV)
- Athenaeum Book Store
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Faculty of Humanities
- University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Communications Office)
- Amsterdam University Press (AUP)
- Publishing house De Bezige Bij
SPUI25’s media partner is the NRC Handelsblad national newspaper.
The patron of SPUI25 is the Dutch Central Bank (Nederlandsche Bank).
