The Freedom Lectures
i.s.m. Vfonds
Freedom is something that we in the Netherlands often take for granted. Four times a year, De Balie invites someone who knows from personal experience what it means not to be free. We want to share their stories, spread their message, and learn from their struggle. In the series, De Balie has welcomed freedom fighters like Egyptian writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi, Ugandan LGBT activist Frank Mugisha, and Hungarian journalist Veronika Munk. The Freedom Lecture is made possible by vfonds.
I.s.m. Vfonds
Look back at former Freedom Lectures
Novelist Sulaiman Addonia spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan; his adolescence in Saudi-Arabia; received asylum in the UK, and currently lives in Brussels. In his Freedom Lecture he asks the question: how to love while being dislocated? Afterwards Arnon Grunberg will enage in conversation with Addonia.
Freedom Lecture by Jewher Ilham
Jewher Ilham advocates for the end of Uyghur forced labour, carried out in camps like the one where her father is detained. How to encourage governments, companies and individuals to be aware of the origin of their products?
