Het Denkgelag
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Het Denkgelag 2014.
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| Formation | 2012 | ||
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| Type | non-profit | ||
| Purpose | Bringing together interesting speakers to stimulate public discussion on science and reason and to foster critical thinking | ||
| Headquarters | Ghent | ||
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Region served
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Flanders | ||
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Official language
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Dutch, English | ||
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Chair
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Pieter Brauwers | ||
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Parent organization
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SKEPP | ||
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Volunteers
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9 | ||
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Het Denkgelag is a Belgian association without lucrative purpose that organises skeptical conferences in Flanders. Het Denkgelag started out in 2012 as a series of discussion evenings of the skeptical organisation SKEPP, but nowadays functions financially and legally independent from SKEPP. The mission of Het Denkgelag is to popularise scientific topics and to promote critical thinking for a broad audience. It has been described as “laid-back discussion evenings on philosophical, skeptical and scientific topics, in an informal atmosphere, with a crowd of interesting speakers and the audience as the central guest”.
The first series of lectures and discussions of Het Denkgelag took place in late 2012 in the cultural centre De Centrale in Ghent. Speakers included Johan Braeckman, Farah Focquaert, Chris French, Alicja Gescinska, Jürgen Mettepenningen, Stephen Law, Patrick Loobuyck, Herman Philipse, Emanuel Rutten, Jean Paul Van Bendegem and Dirk Verhofstadt.
On 17 October 2013, Het Denkgelag organised the "Debate on the Limits of Science" in the Leon De Meyer auditorium (1000 seats) at the Universiteitsforum (UFO) of Ghent University. The debate was held between Daniel Dennett, Lawrence M. Krauss and Massimo Pigliucci, moderated by Maarten Boudry.
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