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Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny used one of the largest media platforms in the United States, the Super Bowl Halftime Show, to spread a message of Pan-American unity. His performance was filled with symbols of Latin American heritage and pride. The event took place amid a backdrop of rising tensions between the U.S. and Latin America: in recent months, the U.S. government has sent ICE on a surge of arrests, staged an assault on Venezuela, and threatened to invade Cuba.

Expert in Latine Politics Anne Martinez will be contextualizing the Super Bowl Halftime Show within the history of U.S.-Latin American relations. What has caused the disorderly relationship between the U.S. and Latin America? And how can a celebration of community and culture unite nations?

🇺🇸 Bad Bunny's América - Anne M. Martinez
📆 Tuesday 9 June
⏰ 8 pm
📍 Marie Loke Zaal, Harmoniecomplex
🎟 via sggroningen.nl, free for students!

Organized together with the Faculty of Arts and students of the American Studies Master's Program.

How can we understand q***r experiences, and to what extent can we use this understanding to move towards a more q***r-friendly world? Social environments, institutions, and language all affect the way people experience the world, but what is it like to research these topics through a q***r lens? Are there any obstacles that researchers face, and is there space for activism? Researchers and artists from various disciplines will explore how their work not only analyses LGBTQ+ experiences, but also contributes to the ways these lives are understood, represented, and changed.

With Stijn Zelhorst, Joanna Chojnicka, Ronja Eike & Ruby van Vliet, performances by Noor van der Monde & Kamil Teunissen

🦋 Q***r Science | Shaping the Narrative
📆 Tuesday 16 June
⏰ 8 pm
📍 Usva - Cultureel Studentencentrum, Munnekeholm 10
🎟 students free with ticket: https://sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement/shaping-narrative

🖊 Ze is al eens Dichter der Nederlanden geweest, nu wordt ze gastschrijver van de Rijksuniversiteit. Ze doet in haar werk 'iets met poëzie' en ze gaat tijdens haar gastschrijverschap op zoek naar taal. Hoe vinden we woorden voor wat soms onuitspreekbaar lijkt? En hoe zorgen we ervoor dat taal niet uitsluit en verdeelt, maar juist verbindt? Ben je nieuwsgierig wie de gastschrijver van 2026-2027 is? Wil je haar werkcolleges volgen? Kijk dan snel op sggroningen.nl!

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny used one of the largest media platforms in the United States, the Super Bowl Halftime Show, to spread a message of Pan-American unity. His performance was filled with symbols of Latin American heritage and pride. The event took place amid a backdrop of rising tensions between the U.S. and Latin America: in recent months, the U.S. government has sent ICE on a surge of arrests, staged an assault on Venezuela, and threatened to invade Cuba.

Expert in Latine Politics Anne Martinez will be contextualizing the Super Bowl Halftime Show within the history of U.S.-Latin American relations. What has caused the disorderly relationship between the U.S. and Latin America? And how can a celebration of community and culture unite nations?

🇺🇸 Bad Bunny's América - Anne M. Martinez
📆 Tuesday 9 June
⏰ 8 pm
📍 Marie Loke Zaal, Harmoniecomplex
🎟 https://sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement/bad-bunnys-america

How can we understand q***r experiences, and to what extent can we use this understanding to move towards a more q***r-friendly world? Social environments, institutions, and language all affect the way people experience the world, but what is it like to research these topics through a q***r lens? Are there any obstacles that researchers face, and is there space for activism? Researchers and artists from various disciplines will explore how their work not only analyses LGBTQ+ experiences, but also contributes to the ways these lives are understood, represented, and changed.

🦋 Q***r Science | Shaping the Narrative - Stijn Zelhorst in conversation with Joanna Chojnicka, Ronja Eike & Ruby van Vliet, performances by Noor van der Monde & Kamil Teunissen
📆 Tuesday 16 June
⏰ 8 pm
📍 Usva - Cultureel Studentencentrum, Munnekeholm 10
🎟 https://sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement/shaping-narrative

Zohran Mamdani is een democratisch socialist en immigrant van de eerste generatie. Hij is ook de nieuwe burgemeester van New York. Wat betekent zijn verkiezing voor een land dat wordt geregeerd door rechtspopulisten? En kunnen we spreken van een eiwithype? Of hebben we juist meer eiwitten nodig in ons dieet? Ontdek het deze week bij Studium Generale!

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Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist and first generation immigrant. He’s also the new mayor of New York. What does his election signify to a country governed by right-wing populists? And can we say that there's a proteinhype going on? Or do we need more proteins in our diet? Find it out, this week, at Studium Generale!

Tickets & info: sggroningen.nl

Moments after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts and mostly destroyed each other. Yet a small surplus of matter remained. This leftover matter forms the universe we know today, with its stars, planets, and galaxies. What caused this imbalance? That is one of the biggest mysteries in physics.

In search of an explanation, scientists carefully compare the properties of matter and antimatter, such as the mass and magnetic properties of electrons, protons, and their antiparticles. Using precision experiments with trapped and cooled ions, they study these differences in detail, searching for tiny asymmetries that could explain why matter still exists.

Physicist Klaus Blaum heads the Stored and Cooled Ions Division for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In this Hendrik de Waard lecture, he presents precision experiments with stored and cooled ions in so-called Penning traps and asks whether protons and antiprotons truly have identical mass. Could tiny differences explain why anything exists at all?

💫 The Cosmic Antimatter Puzzle - Hendrik de Waard Lecture with Klaus Blaum
📆 Wednesday 13 May
⏰ 8 pm
📍 Academy Building, Broerstraat 5

Organised together with the Professor Hendrik de Waard Foundation.

More info and tickets (free for students): https://sggroningen.nl/en/evenement/cosmic-antimatter-puzzle