Program Night University 2023
Night University is the annual science festival of Tilburg University.
Program Night University: 18:00 hrs
These programs will start between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
DanceNation & DansLab Zuid: Let’s Play and Dance the Night Away!
Time: 17:30-18:00 hrs. | Location: Exercise Plaza In front of CUBE and TIAS Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Get ready to witness an unforgettable night of dance and play with DanceNation’s demo teams: Divini-T, Uni-T, and Infini-T! Passion for dancing and self-expression are central to Divini-T. Their choreography's musical and physical choices are meant to inspire feelings of empowerment, improve self-esteem, and invite the audience on a journey of self-discovery. Uni-T brings a fresh, vibrant energy to the stage with a unique blend of various hip-hop styles and a focus on self-expression. Infini-T’s performance is inspired and ‘destroyed’ by dadaism. Danslab Zuid will also present choreography based on the cohesion of diverse groups and the way they work, clash, struggle, hope, create and play.
Organized by the dance association DanceNation and Danslab Zuid.
Workshop: Zumba fiesta latina
Time: 18:00-18:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Zumba is a fitness program based on Latin American dance. It was developed by Alberto 'Beto' Perez, a Colombian dancer and choreographer who now lives in Miami. Zumba involves various fitness exercises set to music, and in that respect is similar to aerobics. It is a party to join!!!
Zumba' is a Columbian word which means both 'moving quickly' and 'having fun'. Lessons are very easy to follow and suitable for both beginners and more advanced participants. This workshop is taught by Sonia Rosales.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by Sports Center.
Fortissimo Duet
Time: 18:30-18:45 hrs. | Location: Cube Plaza, coffee corner | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Come listen to the beautiful duet of Lea-Jordan Tank (pianist) and Pascal Gruwaz (clarinet) as they perform Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Opus 167 by Camille Saint- Säens. The melodies will play to your heart and soul!
Organized by the music association Fortissimo.
Program Night University: 19:00 hrs
These programs will start between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Food For Thought – Serious Gaming
Time: 19:00-19:45 hrs. | Location: DZ-2, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Serious Gaming is a trending topic within the world of business economics. TiSEM’s study association Asset organizes a Food for Thought session with Rob Tieben, founder & creative director bij Games Solutions Lab, a company in serious gaming and gamification.
Food For Thought is a concept that gives students insights into relevant topics and a variety of businesses. Well-known and inspiring individuals ranging from politicians to economists are interviewed by students. The audience is challenged to get involved and ask questions.
Night Talk organized by the Food For Thought committee in the study association Asset Tilburg.
Workshop Contemporary Dance
Time: 19:00-19:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Contemporary is an umbrella term for a wide variety of modern dance techniques. During the lesson, we work on various movement qualities, choreography, and posture. Starting point of the workshop is that everyone feels comfortable dancing in freedom. This workshop is taught by Kevin Ruijters.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by Sports Center.
Science Slam 2023
Time: 19:00-20:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-1, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Our university is home to innovative, bright, and creative minds. In this session, we challenge five researchers to explain a scientific problem or fact in a clarifying, creative, and entertaining way. (English)
Every presenter gets eight minutes to present their current research and win the hearts of the audience. You can vote for the one that you find the most captivating. Presented by Richard Engelfriet, and featuring PhD candidates from the different Schools of our university:Evy van Weelden (TSHD), Maria Shaidrova (TLS), Huub Ruel (TST), Marijn Eversdijk (TSB) en Sietse Oostra (TiSEM).
Science Slam organized by: Studium Generale & TiPP (Tilburg PhD-platform)
How to legally get away with Murder
Time: 19:00-20:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-3, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
ELSA Tilburg needs help with solving a Murder Mystery! If you like solving puzzles, tracing clues and reading up on criminal cases, this is the perfect activity for you. We start off with an ‘interrogation’ during which we discover the gruesome details of the case. Afterwards, a staple in any law student’s career will take place - a mock trial! All you need to participate is creativity in coming up with good arguments to defend yourself!
Feel free to join this workshop as a participant or audience member.
Workshop organized by study association ELSA.
Playing during Crisis
Time: 19:15-20:00 hrs. | Location: Cube 220 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Play can help you through difficult times. Sybille Lammes focuses on playing during periods of limited mobility, for instance, due to war, imprisonment, or (corona-)lockdown. What does play mean to us in such hard times? And what can we learn from this for the future, when climate change and war may cause limited mobility more often?
Night Talk given by Sybille Lammes, a full professor of New Media and Digital Culture at Leiden University and Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and organized the Science Café Tilburg.
Playing with gender roles in children's literature
Time: 19:15-20:00 hrs.| Location: DZ-8, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
What ideas about gender roles do classical and modern children’s books convey? Is reading children’s and Young Adult literature a gendered occupation? Why has writing for children traditionally been a female activity? Through games based on children’s books, participants of this workshop will explore the link between gender roles and children’s literature.
Workshop led by Élodie Malanda, assistant professor, and colleagues of the Children's Literature Studies, of the Department of Culture Studies in collaboration with the study association Animo.
Making play out of work?!
Time: 19:30-20:15 hrs. | Location: Cube 219 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Playful work design (PWD) offers a bottom-up perspective on the integration of play with work. When employees playfully design their work, they use play during tasks to make their work activities more fun or more competitive. Recently, research has revealed that on days when employees playfully design work, they tend to engage more with their work, have more creative ideas, and perform better. Moreover, when employees design their work to be more playful, they are more effective in dealing with adverse conditions such as hindrance stressors and rumination about all the crises. Hear more about proactive play during work activities and how people actually play at work!
Night Talk by Yuri Scharp, Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University. In cooperation with study association for HR studies Input and study association for Organization studies POLIS.
The Social Sorting Experiment
Time: 19:45-20:30 hrs. | Location: Black Box, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Experience the manipulative power of digital platforms in this revealing and unique live performance. The audience is in the lead in this interactive experiment, in which theater, gaming, and music come together. Be on time, full is full, and don’t forget your smartphone!
Join one of the three sessions, starting at 19:45, 21:15 and 22:45. This experience is produced by The Smartphone Orchestra.
Art Route
Time: 19:45-20:45 hrs. | Location: start by infodesk CUBE | Language: English | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
Tilburg University has an extensive art collection. The emphasis is on contemporary photography and textiles, but the collection also includes paintings, graphics, collages, etc. Our art experts will introduce you during the art route to special and striking works of art on campus
Your tour guide is Joep van Gennip on behalf of Academic heritage.
A Dutch language art tour is also offered at 18:30 hrs. A maximum of 25 visitors can participate per one-hour round. Register at the information desk in CUBE half an hour in advance to secure a spot.
Program Night University: 20:00 hrs
These programs will start between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Fortissimo Orchestra
Time: 20:00-20:30 hrs. | Location: Cube Plaza, coffee corner | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Music Club Fortissimo is a music association for students in Tilburg. Currently, we have an orchestra and a band that rehearse weekly and work towards several performances. Next to that, we have regular social events, and jam sessions at least twice a month. We welcome musicians of any level. If you are interested in joining the association or you would like to join a rehearsal once to see if we are a match, you can send an email to mcfortissimo@gmail.com. We hope to see you at our concert at Night University!
Organized by the music association Fortissimo.
DanceNation & DansLab Zuid: Let’s Play and Dance the Night Away!
Time: 20:00-20:30 hrs. | Location: Exercise Plaza In front of CUBE and TIAS Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Get ready to witness an unforgettable night of dance and play with DanceNation’s demo teams: Divini-T, Uni-T, and Infini-T! Passion for dancing and self-expression are central to Divini-T. Their choreography's musical and physical choices are meant to inspire feelings of empowerment, improve self-esteem, and invite the audience on a journey of self-discovery. Uni-T brings a fresh, vibrant energy to the stage with a unique blend of various hip-hop styles and a focus on self-expression. Infini-T’s performance is inspired and ‘destroyed’ by dadaism. Danslab Zuid will also present choreography based on the cohesion of diverse groups and the way they work, clash, struggle, hope, create and play.
Organized by the dance association DanceNation and Danslab Zuid.
Workshop Mindfulness in Movement
Time: 20:00-20:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Did you know that you can positively influence some basic feelings with exercise? Running is known to make you come back happier from a round in the woods! Dance can positively influence your self-confidence, you learn to relax, develop your self-expression better. The focus during this class is on how thoughts and feelings can influence your body, but also how you yourself can use movement to influence these thoughts and feelings. This workshop is taught by Meggie Nieling.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by: Sports Center
Gamifying Life & the Darker Sides of Technology
Time: 20:15-21:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-1, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Various digital techniques allow you to change reality according to your preferences. Use Deepfake Technology to let the King give your desired ‘alternative’ Christmas speech; assume the body of someone else in a Virtual Reality game; have a love robot fulfil your every desire; you name it. Life will be more fun and funnier, no doubt. But these technologies also have darker sides. Letting a Ukrainian general supposedly order his troops to surrender; hacking Virtual Reality to make it into a dystopia; letting your demented grandma believe she is communicating with her late husband, while in fact she is talking to a Humanoid Robot. What are technologies such as Humanoid Robotics, Deepfake and Augmented & Virtual Reality, what cool and scarry applications do they have and how will they affect social interaction and our shared perception of reality and should robots have rights? These are a small number of questions that this lecture will address.
Night Talk by Bart van der Sloot, associate professor at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University.
‘Live streaming’: Why we watch others play games
Time: 20:15-21:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-2, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk (this is not a livestream 😉).
In recent years live streaming platforms such as Twitch have gained popularity, and this has inspired traditionally non-live social media to also introduce live broadcasts. On Twitch, most broadcasts center around watching others play games. Viewers can interact with each other, and oftentimes also with the ‘streamer’, who can be considered a modern celebrity or influencer. In this talk we will look into the livestreaming phenomenon, the types of people that are active on these platforms, and the effects that the medium can have on its users.
Night Talk led by Jan de Wit, assistant professor at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital sciences. Organized by association KWEEK Communications.
How to win every argument!
Time: 20:15-21:00 | Location: DZ-3, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Occasionally, every person gets into discussions and debates with their friends or strangers. But we don't always win them. If you want to know how to properly analyse arguments or how you can formulate your own arguments in the most convincing way, come to Cicero's workshop, where we will teach you the best way of digesting and composing arguments!
Organized by the debate association Cicero.
Workshop: Lighting up the right audience
Time: 20:15-21:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-8, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Let's play with lighting and colour techniques in visual marketing! Visuals are an intricate part of branding. Just compare female perfume advertisements with those for men and you’ll notice that things like lighting, colours, setting, and other photo- and videographic terms are actually really important in conveying your message and appealing to the right target audience. In our workshop we will explore and apply these concepts.
Workshop organized by study association Asset Tilburg.
Let Your Failures Come Out to Play!
Time: 20:15-21:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-9, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
If you ask a person whether he or she has failed in the past year, the vast majority will remember a small or big failure. However, only a small minority is willing to share their failures in public. In the 3rd Edition of the Failing Forward event, University College Tilburg and study association Extra Muros invite you to listen to our students, professors and staff members share their failures instead of their success stories and at the end of the presentations, break the taboo together and also let your failures come out to play!
Night talk given by lecturer Ellen Dreezens, assistant professor Suzanne van der Beek, PhD student Trinh Nguyen and LAS Bachelor’s student Angel Sharma. Organized by University College Tilburg.
EPIC Pop Choir
Time: 20:30-21:00 hrs. | Location: In front of Tias Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Let us take your breath away with a wonderful collection of pop songs. We are EPIC!
Organized by Student pop choir EPIC.
A language of Economics: puzzles and games
Time: 20:30-21:15 hrs. | Location: CUBE 216 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
In the majority of economic theory, agents, be they consumers, firms or governments, are characterized by optimizing behaviour and strategy. This calls for a mathematical approach. But how do mathematical economists go about solving complex economic problems? Basically, by first studying puzzles and games. In this interactive session we are going to solve a few examples of such puzzles and games and conclude that, putting it in the appropriate context, this is serious business indeed.
Night Talk given by dr. Ruud Hendrickx, Assistant Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research.
Playing for meaning
Time: 20:30-21:15 hrs. | Location: Cube 220 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Gaming is more than ‘just a game.’ It gives meaning to a life that is otherwise difficult to assign meaning to. Therefore, philosopher Frank Chouraqui sees play as a way of coping with modern nihilistic reality. During this lecture, he elaborates on this idea.
Night talk given by Frank Chouraqui, philosopher at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University and organized by Science Café Tilburg.
Geo-politics: The play between North-Brabant and China
Time: 20:30-21:30 hrs. | Location: CUBE 219 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
There are close economic and social connections between Brabant and China. Many Brabant companies have a branch in China, or they import products and raw materials from the Asian country. And mind that Tilburg is the end of the new Silk Road. BrabantKennis made a documentary about this relationship. During Night University they will interview experts and discuss the themes: trade and knowledge collaboration. What opportunities does international economic cooperation offer? Is it a good idea to let Dutch and Chinese universities work together? What are the risks and discussion points that we need to talk about? Guests are Cindy Shao, Managing Director Europe at HAND Enterprise Solutions; Frans Greidanus, professor at Zhejiang University and advisor of the board for Tilburg University.
Organized by BrabantKennis, scouts of the future for policy makers of the province of North-Brabant.
Classical Student Choir (TiSK): Voice to Voice
Time: 20:45-21:00 hrs. | Location: Cube Plaza, coffee corner | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
TiSK, a brand new student choir for classical music, will take you on a musical journey all over the world. By exploring the traditions of songs from different cultures around the globe, we reflect on what it means for us humans to sing and make music together.
Organized by Tilburgs Student Choir TiSK.
Program Night University: 21:00 hrs
These programs will start between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Workshop Club Yoga
Time: 21:00-21:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Club Yoga is a training in which you work on your body and mind. Fitness is much more than being physically strong; your mind also needs to be in shape. The origins of Club Yoga lie in the Far East where many people practice Yoga and Tai Chi. These ancient cultures live by the concept of balance. How can you find the right balance between effort and relaxation? Club Yoga offers guidance. This workshop is taught by Marline Wijsman.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by Sports Center.
The Social Sorting Experiment
Time: 21:15-22:00 hrs. | Location: Black Box, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Experience the manipulative power of digital platforms in this revealing and unique live performance. The audience is in the lead in this interactive experiment, in which theater, gaming, and music come together. Be on time, full is full, and don’t forget your smartphone!
Join one of the three sessions, starting at 19:45, 21:15 and 22:45. This experience is produced by The Smartphone Orchestra.
DanceNation & DansLab Zuid: Let’s Play and Dance the Night Away!
Time: 21:30-22:00 hrs. | Location: Exercise Plaza in front of CUBE and TIAS Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Get ready to witness an unforgettable night of dance and play with DanceNation’s demo teams: Divini-T, Uni-T, and Infini-T! Passion for dancing and self-expression are central to Divini-T. Their choreography's musical and physical choices are meant to inspire feelings of empowerment, improve self-esteem, and invite the audience on a journey of self-discovery. Uni-T brings a fresh, vibrant energy to the stage with a unique blend of various hip-hop styles and a focus on self-expression. Infini-T’s performance is inspired and ‘destroyed’ by dadaism. Danslab Zuid will also present choreography based on the cohesion of diverse groups and the way they work, clash, struggle, hope, create and play.
Organized by the dance association DanceNation and Danslab Zuid.
Brain Buzz: Enactus PubQuiz
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: Cube 17 | Language: English | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Welcome to tonight's pub quiz! We have a fun and diverse selection of questions for you tonight! As well as testing your knowledge on some random fun topics, we'll also be asking some questions related to sustainability, to help raise awareness and encourage us all to think more about how we can make a positive impact on the environment. Get ready to put your thinking caps on and have some laughs along the way. So grab a drink, gather your team, and let's get started!
This Quiz is organised by the student association Enactus.
The Ultimate Team Puzzle!
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: Cube 20 Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
This night, we are going to solve the ultimate team puzzle! Please note that this puzzle is slightly different than usual: the only way to solve it is by bringing together each other’s skills in communication, leadership, negotiation and decision making. Will you join us to take on the challenge and become part of the ultimate puzzle team?
Organized by the association IDEA, the faculty association for the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Collaboration, Communication & Bamboo sticks
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: Cube 35 | Language: English & Dutch (20:00 hrs.) | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Get ready for a stick-ing good time! Join us for a fun lesson in collaboration that involves teamwork, patience, and a bamboo stick. Hope to see you there!
There will be two approximately sessions. This one in English by Nikos Basbas, and another one in Dutch by dr. Aukje Leufkens (20:00 hrs.). There is a limit on the number of participants - first-come, first-serve.
Organized by Education Innovation Lab (EDUiLAB).
Stanley’s Choice?
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: DZ-1, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
An on-site social experiment on the non-existence of human freedom through the game Stanley Parable. Are the choices that we make truly choices? Or are we all guided by an invisible force, making our every move perfectly predictable? Theologist Frank Bosman guides us through the Stanley Parable and calls into question the one characteristic we hold most dear: our freedom.
Night Talk led by Frank Bosman, a researcher in the field of the theology of culture at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and it is organized by the study association Animo.
Video gaming to Understand Port Complexity
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: DZ-2, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Video games are often played for entertainment; however, video games can be more than a simple spare-time hobby. Video games may introduce players to new scenarios and help them familiarize themselves with decisions that may or will occur in real-life. During this lecture, we will introduce a new game called “Sustainable Port”, a game that replicates, to a certain extent, decisions that may characterize the development of ports’ environments such as the port of Rotterdam. Such a game will be used to study expertise at the port of Rotterdam and to evaluate if it can raise awareness about the complexity characterizing ports' related decision-making.
This Night talk is given by Gianluca Guglielmo, PhD-candidate of Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) for the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. This activity is hosted by student association Flow.
Interactive storytelling: Bringing traditional African Folklore to life
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: DZ-3, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Once upon a time storytelling became a form of play for children and the elderly to bond. ASAT brings you along with them on a journey around Africa as we embark on an enigmatic telling of folklore stories with in-person miming of the stories as they are being told. The experience is immersive and will at times be interactive for both young and old alike.
This experience is organized by the African Student Association Tilburg.
Should international borders be abolished?
Time: 21:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: DZ-4, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
In the current era of globalization, with an ever-closing gap between cultures, languages and beliefs, we still recognise the need for borders between states. However, an example of the EU or any other visa-free regimes have shown us that perhaps it is time to abolish all types of hard-borders between countries. Join us for a mock MUN debate and represent a country in discussing just that!
Workshop organized by the association Tilburg Model United Nations.
Learning from gaming
Time: 21:45-22:30 hrs. | Location: Cube 220 | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
Gaming is not only fun, but it can also provide valuable information. For example, researchers can deduce how gamers feel from their behaviour while playing. With this knowledge, developers can make better games that are more fun, teach you more, or make more money. Max Birk explains how this works and how gaming can contribute to your mental well-being.
Night talk given by Max Birk, assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology and organized by Science Café Tilburg.
Program Night University: 22:00 hrs
These programs will start between 10:00 and 11:00 pm.
EPIC Pop Choir
Time: 22:00-22:30 hrs. | Location: In front of Dante Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Let us take your breath away with a wonderful collection of pop songs. We are EPIC!
Organized by Student pop choir EPIC.
Workshop Mindfulness
Time: 22:00-22:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Mindfulness is the ability to focus on the here and now. You become less distracted by external stimuli, feelings and emotions within, and learn to really focus on the present moment. You will need some exercise, and it will become easier overtime. Mindfulness will teach you to deal with stress in a healthy way, to feel what is important to you in life and it will become easier to accept things that you cannot change. This workshop is taught by Kevin Ruijters.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by Sports Center.
Classical Student Choir (TiSK): Voice to Voice
Time: 22:15-22:30 hrs. | Location: Cube Plaza | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
TiSK, a brand new student choir for classical music, will take you on a musical journey all over the world. By exploring the traditions of songs from different cultures around the globe, we reflect on what it means for us humans to sing and make music together.
Organized by Tilburgs Student Choir TiSK.
Last Lecture: Stop Bullshitting!
Time: 22:30-23:15 hrs. | Location: DZ-1, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Night Talk
A great philosopher once remarked that everybody lies. We tell little, white lies. But some influential people tell big lies. Not just liars (or bullshitters) like Bolsonaro, Putin and Trump, but also bad journalists, educational managers and judges that want to be important, do things their way or make money at the expense of others.
These liars make life hard. They have us fight for things like free speech, democracy and justice. I will focus on justice. If bad cops, judges, and crime-journalists would stop bullshitting, then we could focus on advancing our justice system, instead of keeping and protecting it. You know what I mean? Stop wasting our time with lies and bullshit!
Night Talk held by Hans Dooremalen, university teacher in the Department of Philosophy. Organized by study association Extra Muros.
Come, Create with Kaleidoscope
Time: 22:30-23:15 hrs.| Location: DZ-8, Dante Building| Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Hello, curious student! How many theatre games do you know? 10, none, one? Are you familiar with the rush of adrenaline you feel after performing? Yes? No? Do you want to be? Do you aim for everyone around you to feel safe? Do you strive to feel like yourself in your environment? Come play with us in this workshop!
For more information on Kaleidoscopic please reach out to the following email address: kaleidoscopeactinggroup@gmail.com.
Organized by Acting Association Kaleidoscopic.
How to legally get away with Murder
Time: 22:30-23:30 hrs. | Location: DZ-3, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
ELSA Tilburg needs help with solving a Murder Mystery! If you like solving puzzles, tracing clues and reading up on criminal cases, this is the perfect activity for you. We start off with an ‘interrogation’ during which we discover the gruesome details of the case. Afterwards, a staple in any law student’s career will take place - a mock trial! All you need to participate is creativity in coming up with good arguments to defend yourself!
Feel free to join this workshop as a participant or audience member.
Workshop organized by study association ELSA.
The Social Sorting Experiment
Time: 22:45-23:30 hrs. | Location: Black Box, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Experience the manipulative power of digital platforms in this revealing and unique live performance. The audience is in the lead in this interactive experiment, in which theater, gaming, and music come together. Be on time, full is full, and don’t forget your smartphone!
Join one of the three sessions, starting at 19:45, 21:15 and 22:45. This experience is produced by The Smartphone Orchestra.
ESN Quiz Night
Time: 22:45-23:30 hrs. | Location: DZ-4, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Are you the person that knows all the trivia in your friend group? Come test your knowledge during a fun quiz where you can help your team reach victory and win a prize! Don't have a team? No worries, teams will be created on the spot so every individual can enjoy it!
Organized by student association ESN Tilburg (Erasmus Student Network).
Program Night University: 23:00 hrs
These programs will start between 11:00 and 12:00 pm.
Workshop Latin Dance
Time: 23:00-23:45 hrs. | Location: Ballet room, Esplanade Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
This exciting and dynamic dance workshop combines the fundamental techniques of Bachata. This class will help you maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle and improve your sense of rhythm and musicality with great choreography. This workshop is taught by Anna Shekiladze & Lennart Becker.
Everyone is welcome, but limited spaces available. You don't have to wear sportswear, but comfortable clothes/shoes are a good idea.
Organized by Sports Center.
Pop Palooza: the ultimate pop culture trivia quiz
Time: 23:00-23:45 hrs. | Location: Zwijsen building | Language: English | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Do you think you know everything about pop culture? Maybe your knowledge sits firmly in one category, or maybe you’re an all-rounder. Animo challenges you to partake in this Jeopardy style game-show about everything pop-culture, or witness the show go down. Dare to join, or enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing peers compete!
Organized by study association Animo. Your quiz masters are Elise and Chris.
De Jongens van Je Weet Wel
Time: Walk-in 23:30-02:00 hrs. | Location: Grand Café Esplanade | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
These piano entertainers play everything (anything? Yes, absolutely everything!) so request your favorite song right away: “You know, that one song”. The hits are flying around your ears and passing by at a dizzying pace!
Remember that guilty pleasure you haven't heard in ages? That one hit in which you always sing along with your fellow-students? Or the song you danced to for the first time? Grab a card and "Just say it"!
Organized by Asset & Magister JFT .
Program Night University: Continuous
These programs take place throughout the evening.
Exercise square: Play, play and keep playing
Time: 17:30-23:00 hrs. | Location: Exercise Square in front of CUBE and TIAS | Language: n.a. | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Exercise is an essential part of our lives. In exercise and sport we meet each other and find balance. We invite you to the 'exercise square', where there are things to do for everyone, young and old, big and small. Participate in one of the various activities such as: slack-lining, walking football, circus play, disc golf, badminton, etc. or get acquainted with the exercise bench. You can participate in one of the many workshops in the Ballet room of Esplanade building. Or watch and get inspired by one of the dance performances of the student sports association 'DanceNation'. Move with us! Let's play!
Organized by the Sports Center and the Health & Lifestyle program.
GO-lab: Games in psychological experiments
Time: continuous from 18:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: Cube 21 | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
This year’s demo of the GO-Lab (Behavioral and Physiological Research Lab) of Department Medical & Clinical Psychology is all about using digital/virtual games for experiments. How can you use games in psychological research? In the game “Walk the plank” you will discover the power of Virtual Reality (VR) and how much it feels like real life situations. We will explain how we use VR applications in our research. In the game “Choose right or we might bite”, you must discover how to avoid giving wrong answers or else… Do you want to know more about how we use digital and virtual games in psychological research? Come see our demonstrations!
Schedule
We have a schedule of 30 minute rounds alternating ENG and NL (Dutch), with slightly more NL sessions.
- 18:00-18:30 NL
- 18:45-19:15 NL
- 19:30-20:00 NL
- 20:00-20:30 ENG
- 20:30-21:00 NL
- 21:00-21:30 ENG
- 21:30-22:00 NL
- 22:00-22:30 NL
- 22:30-23:00 ENG
Organized by GO-Lab (Behavioral and Physiological Research Lab) of Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology.
Gayme night - Learn while playing!
Time: continuous from 18:45-22:30 hrs. (walk in) | Location: Foyer, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Come with us on a fun journey to discover more about queer history! Visitors will have the opportunity to play a game in which they can test their knowledge of queer history and celebrities. Visitors can scan a QR code with their phones and participate in a quiz. Upon completion they can win small prizes. We will be available for any questions the visitors may have after the quiz.
Organized by Umbrella Association.
TEDxTilburg: Drop-off your idea on mental wellbeing!
Time: 18:45-23:00 hrs. | Location: Foyer, Dante Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
Walk by and drop all your ideas, thoughts, frustrations, possibilities and wishes regarding the theme of ‘mental health with students’. What is needed to prevent mental health problems in the short and long term? What topics in this sphere should be offered in a TEDtalk? Let us know in our ‘Walk-by & Drop-off’!
Organized by TEDxTilburg: Future of Social.
Writing assignments? No sweat with the Scriptorium!
Time: 18:45-23:00 hrs. | Location: Foyer, Dante Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
Do you feel writing academic texts is a whole new ball game? The Scriptorium can help level the playing field of writing assignments by offering free coaching in writing academic texts as well as support in searching and referencing literature. So get the ball rolling towards becoming a better writer, and come meet us during Night University to learn more.
Organized by the Scriptorium.
Silent Disco
Time: 19:00-00:00 hrs. | Location: Foyer, Dante Building | Language: Music | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Let the music play and dance the night away! During the silent disco, you are in charge of the music on your headset. Choose a music channel and get your feet off the ground! DJ’s are among others DJ Hi-tone (prof. Ton Wilthagen) and sociologist Bram Peper.
Organized by Student party SAM.
“Sjoelen” with SPS-NIP
Time: 19:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-5, Dante Building| Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
We are going to play an old-fashioned Dutch game of “sjoelen” and simultaneously ask you questions about psychology. We are trying to replicate an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) session by stimulating the working memory while asking questions about psychology. Come enjoy our game and be enriched by getting answers to psychological questions related to relationships, intimacy, attachment and much more!
Organised by SPS-NIP. (Section Psychology Students of the Dutch Institute of Psychologists).
Come play the We Activate Tilburg Boardgame!
Time: 19:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-5, Dante Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
How much do you already know about the active student life in Tilburg? Find out at the We Activate Tilburg real life board game! This game tests your knowledge of everything Tilburg has to offer for students.
Organized by We Activate Tilburg.
Ready to start? Let's Mario Kart!
Time: 19:00-23:00 hrs.| Location: DZ-6, Dante Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
You may have played it on your Nintendo, the Wii or are now playing it on the Switch. Mario Kart is a game of all times and connects generations! Join our Mario Kart tournament! Who will you challenge to a race?
Organized by Student Party Front and e-sports association TSEA Link.
Unicef’s interactive expo
Time: 19:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: DZ-7, Dante Building | Language: English | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
With our interactive exhibition we aim to raise awareness of violations of children's rights across the planet, and the sociological and psychological consequences of conflict environments on children in society. In addition, throughout the night, we will have various spontaneous outdoor activities such as hopscotch games, just for fun!
Organized by student association Unicef Student Team Tilburg.
Are you also scoring for the Sustainable Development Goals?
Time: continuous from 19:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: In front of Dante Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
Since 2010 we have been advocating through our volunteers for the elderly, children, and people with physical- and/or mental disabilities in Tilburg. Are you curious about the ways in which we are working towards the Sustainable Development Goals for example? Feel free to drop by!
Organized by Serve the City.
The Psychological Background of Games
Time: 19:00-23:00 hrs. | Location: CUBE 102 to 113 | Language: English | Category: Labs, Info & Tours
Have you ever wondered why we play and what the psychological background is behind different games? Then come to the CUBE during Night university. Psychology students will explain all different areas of games through the glasses of a psychologist. For example they will teach how to win with rock paper scissors, they will analyze your function through specially designed games and much more!
Organized by the study association for Psychology students Complex.
Language & Culture Scavenger Hunt
Time: 19:30-22:15 hrs. | Location: Foyer, Dante Building| Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Gather your friends and colleagues from across the world to get a leg up in this language & culture scavenger hunt. Starting at Dante Foyer, you and your team of max. 5 people go on a language-inspired, cross-campus adventure. Questions and challenges to do with language and culture give you clues as to where to go next. Who is fastest and wins the prize?
This activity can be started any time between 19:30 hrs. and 22:15 hrs. and takes a maximum of 45 minutes.
Organized by the Language Center.
Profs of Karaoke
Time: 19:30-23:30 hrs. | Location: Grand Café Esplanade | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Become a ‘Prof of Karaoke’ with the help of the Karaoke Professors Peter Achterberg, Tim Reeskens en Francesco Marolla from the Department of Sociology.
Let’s Play A Chess Champion!
Time: continuous between 20:00-22:00 hrs. | Location: CUBE foyer | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Workshops & Serious Games
Do you like chess? Then take on the challenge with Dutch Champion and Grandmaster (and economy student) Max Warmerdam. To make it easier for you, you get 5 minutes and Max 1 minute. Do you win or do you draw? Then you win a wonderful prize! Let's Play!
Bonfire Open Mic
Time: 21:30-00:00 hrs. | Location: Bonfire near Tias Building | Language: English & Dutch | Category: Culture, Quizzes & Just Fun
Come have a great time sitting round a campfire, enjoying beautiful poems, gripping stories and live music. Everyone is welcome to showcase their talents at the Bonfire Open Mic. Join us round the campfire that we’re poking up especially for you!
Organized by study association Extra Muros .