Bishop Anton Hurkmans has in his mission created a strong and exceptional social climate in the region. He has opened the church to contemporary society and offered it to his community as a site for hospitality and curiosity. Bishop Hurkmans will focus his talk on how the church is a place for different learning experiences and a prolific site for knowledge production.

Bishop Hurkmans brings vision to his church and has over the last few years engaged in new modes of communication and engaging the community. The church is not an entitity that shall operate outside society but on the contrary be part of our everyday life. The church must as any other public institution upgrade its methods of communication and find the audience in an active way.

Jos de Kroon is Netherlands foremost authority on psychoanalyst with his own practice in Eindhoven. An expert in family therapy, a psychiatrist and with a thorough background both as practitioner and academic in psychoanalysis Jos de Kroon is an exceptional resource in Eindhoven. De Kroon will lead the audience into the wrinnkes of our minds and examine the arts relation to psychoanalysis.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

It is that truth, let us note, which makes the very existence of fiction possible. And in that case, a fable is as appropriate as any other narrative for bringing it to light-at the risk of having the fable's coherence put to the test in the process.

Frank Schipper the fourt guesst to International Festival Universtity took the audience on a journey from road movies to Highway to Hell, from safe paths to way out, from street wise to cruising. Four touch downs offered an adventurous journey from Kamikaze-like early racing, via 30s utopian Italian autostrada with excellent roadside service and to venture for the checkered flag with a flavour of activism and the possible pro's and con's referrencing European net-works. The roads mights seem innocent, but hey hey hey its not a crash now and then that matters - roads are major for how we live our lives. Are you driving on the right or wrong side...

Hans Schalkwijk has through his work in Eindhoven reinvented law enforcement’s proce-dures to create a safe environment for sex workers. Through consistent and pro active efforts Hans Schalkwijk and his colleagues at the Eindhoven police has created an exam-ple that is revolutionary in Europe in respect of how society relates to prostitution.

Addressing prostitution require strong partnerships, involving a wide range of enforcement and support agencies. Success in delivering safer communities through a significant reduction in street prostitution and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation will depend on the will and commitment of local partnerships to address prostitution with confidence and energy – confidence that it really is possible to make a difference, and energy to tackle the many challenges involved. Many individuals and communities already pay a significant price for the
existence of a sex market – in those communities we simply cannot afford to ignore the many
problems associated with prostitution.

Powerplant is formed by Krista Burger and Nina Thibo and situated in Berlin (Germany), Belfeld (The Netherlands), and Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Working between performativity, film and installation Powerplant regards itself as a temporary product of this western consumer society. In their ‘expanded cinema’ series instant movies are being made from scenes that take place in various miniature models, forming an installation on it’s own. While each scene is filmed live, it is simultaneously projected onto two large screens, so that all details of the models can be seen as a large projection. For yourspace Powerplant is presenting: ‘Fortune Cookie Fancy Fucking, an ‘expanded cinema’ installation in the centre part of the space, so that the audience is able to witness the artists performing the developing process of these ‘live-films’. A detailed soundtrack supports the instant movies. ‘Fortune Cookie Fancy Fucking’ will be presented live on the 23rd of November as well as during Museum Night on the 25th of November.

Kim Veltman the second guest at International Festival University plays deep down in history to find the roots to creativity and the starting point of the alphabet. Check out the powerpoint: the tempo is amazing.

Km Veltman is strongly engaged in Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institutet

Marshall McLuhan explored historical effects of new media on the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) - or the arts and sciences - and implications for those effects on knowledge and culture then and today. VMMI proposes to continue these explorations, with a new focus: Knowledge Organization and Cultural Computing.