For this edition, we wanted to step away from the weight of the everyday and turn our gaze toward something lighter. Too often, the world reminds us of its darkness and pain.
We know of wars, environmental destruction, and discrimination. We hear of injustice, violence and pain. We are afraid, we feel helpless and drown in this black lake. It is easy to let the cold liquid swallow you. When has this depressive body of water gotten so big? When did it become so normal to carry this heaviness with us every day?
This issue is a flea from the heavy and the mundane. We try to look for something magical, something playful, something that reminds us of the childlike wonder we once carried so effortlessly. That sense of awe at the simple and the strange, that ability to see the simple as extraordinary.
On these pages, you will find essays, painting, poems, and photography that invite you to rediscover this sense of wonder. Some will be lighthearted, some more philosophical, but all share the same attempt: to see the world again with open eyes. We hope this edition of Eudaimonia gives you a spark of curiosity, a moment of magic, or even just a smile.
Chair: Diederic Assik
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For this edition, we wanted to explore what happens when we operate like this; it goes without saying that you’re usually most comfortable when speaking your mother tongue, and so a little part of you goes missing when you speak in a language you weren’t raised in. Even if you are fluent, there are endless cultural references and inside jokes that fly over your head when you’re not part of a certain crowd. Although we might be speaking the same language, there’s no guarantee that we’re actually understanding each other. Which begs the question: can any of us really, truly be understood by others? Or will there always be a little something getting lost between us?
Chair: Anna Haga
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Firstly, a thank you to everyone who sent us a submission this semester, whether it was a poem, a story, or a painting. We hope seeing your work in these pages makes all those late nights worth it!
For many of us, night represents the unknown – it turns the familiar into the strange, with well-worn paths morphing into terra incognita. It’s a time for questioning what we know, and realising what we don’t. In this
magazine we explore what’s obscured, as well what is certain. And the night certainly is a beautiful, strange time, and for us students, often fun. More than anything (as you’ll see in these pages) it inspires us to create.
Enjoy reading, and don’t let the bedbugs bite.
Chair: Anna Haga
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As Albert Camus wrote “but what is absurd is the confrontation of the irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.” What are our thoughts about the philosophical current quintessential for European modernity? Through the courtesy of fellow students, we have received submissions, pictures and artwork, infused with the spirit of the Absurd.
Before reading, we are morally obliged to warn readers about the content and language within this magazine. The pages are drenched with absurdities and reek of paradoxes, inconsistencies, existential angst and depression, the intellectual fictive realm to experience cognitive dissonance.
Chair: Anna Junge and Maureen Foley
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Just like the association, the magazine is also growing and changing, striving to better cater to the needs of our readers but also to our aspirations. As this is a moment of celebration, the current issue is a special one as it offers a commemorative Yearbook of Symposion.
Moreover, the issue went towards a format that pays more attention to academic papers while not neglecting the informal and creative expressions of our students.
Chair: Anisia Iacob
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This edition’s theme includes all things related to the notion of time- whether that be past, present, or future. Even though we are not
concerned with time travel, the theme is called “time machine”
because you, the reader, will travel through this magazine and its
philosophical reflections on a variety of time-related topics. We
hope you find many articles as intriguing as we did!
Chair: Astrid Smits
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