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A growing world population, the climate change and inflexible fisheries policy threaten our oceans. On World Ocean Day on June 8th all over the world people will get together to devote their attention to the largest body of water on our planet. The Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Technical University Delft organize a public event to discuss about this problem and to make an appeal for action against the disappearing underwater life.

Jan Willem Oosterwijk, chairman of the Executive Board, has to temporarily take distance from his occupations at Erasmus University, due to health problems. He wrote a letter to all employees and students of the EUR.

Mayor Aboutaleb of Rotterdam spent a successful afternoon on Woudestein campus on Wednesday 22 April 2009.

The Executive Board of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) has decided to extend the visiting professorship of prof.dr. Tariq Ramadan in the Citizenship and Identity chair, until 1 February 2011. Tariq Ramadan has fulfilled the duties of the chair well over the past two years, and students say they have been stimulated by his approach.

No thinker has had so great an influence on intellectual life as French philosopher, historian and sociologist Michel Foucault. As we approach the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death this conference will re-examine the thoughts he developed in the so called ‘late’ period of his philosophical thought. Although his work on ethics, subjectivity and freedom continues to inspire scholars worldwide, their focus, however, is mostly on the empirical application of these concepts within various social sciences and political studies; a closer philosophical examination seems to be largely absent. The aim of this conference, then, is to return to Foucault and (re)assess the concepts he introduced in his later work.