Start of the year 2024-2024: message from SSP
Dear students, dear staff,
We hope you all feel rested and ready for the new academic year.
Last year was eventful, stressful and hurtful. The explosion of violence in Palestine, and the question of how to relate to it - as a society and as a university - highlighted differences in our community that sometimes appeared unbridgeable.
Staff Students Platform (SSP) emerged out of a shared desire to keep trying to bridge those differences: to reach out to each other and explore, and to some extent find, some common understanding.
As you can read here, we organized a brain storm session, in total seven movie nights + discussions, walkshops, and finally, a debate between several external speakers.
Many of the people who carried SSP last year have moved on (due to the unfortunate reality that students graduate), but luckily, many of us still remain.
Those of us who are still here, feel that the urgency to meet up, learn from each other, exchange ideas has not diminished.
The basic goal remains: to organize and facilitate events, for ourselves and for others, that help us get the conversation going that we feel needs to be had.
To start things up again, we would like to invite everyone to our first movie screening of the year.
- When: Tuesday 10 Sept 18:00h
- Where: AB Common Room
- What: The movie Innocence:
- “Innocence” tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the haunting diaries of soldiers who died in uniform and rare home video they left behind; the film depicts their inner turmoil…"
- How: The plan is to watch the movie, and have a small, open discussion afterwards.
Also, we would like to use this opportunity to highlight some events that people have pointed out to us, brought together in this calendar. We will keep updating it, so make sure to regularly check it out.
Finally, we would like to again extend an explicit invitation to everyone (students of all years, teaching staff, support staff) to join us, either for the events themselves, or (also) for the small core that helps to organize/facilitate the events.
We are explicitly searching for a wide range of positions and ideas, so if you feel that your position is not getting the attention you feel it deserves, please let us know and/or join us.
Kind regards,
Staff Students Platform