Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

30Apr2015

Eurocommissioner Moedas and State Secretary Dekker at Room for Discussion

13:30 - 14:30 | Debate

For the second time in three weeks, the Roeterseiland campus will host a Eurocommissioner. On 14 April, ACCESS EUROPE welcomed Jyrki Katainen for a discussion with about Europe's future, on 30 April Carlos Moedas, ...

29Apr2015

Close to a Brexit?

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

With the upcoming general elections in the UK, the possibility of a Brexit (shorthand for British exit from the European Union) is widely debated again. Sir Colin Budd, former member of the UK Diplomatic Service, ...

29Apr2015

Close to a Brexit?

20:00 - 21:30 | Lecture

Sir Colin Budd will describe the current debate in the UK about membership of the European Union, including the possibility of a Brexit, and the ways in which the UK would like the EU to change. He will also reflect ...

28Apr2015

Responsive technocrats?

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

What are the policy consequences of the public politicisation of European integration? Christian Rauh will argue that higher levels of public contestation challenge the hitherto often technocratic mode of policy ...

14Apr2015

Screening Politics: Syriana

20:00 | Event

Brian Burgoon will introduce and discuss this film that tells the story of the transnational politics of US foreign policy and practice in the Middle East. That story turns out to be one where many familiar forces of ...

14Apr2015

The future of international development studies: final debate

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. Global trends indicate rising inequality and degrading ecosystems. Extrapolated into the ...

14Apr2015

On the future of Europe - with European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen

16:00 - 17:00 | Debate

European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen will speak at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, as a guest of ACCESS EUROPE. Mr. Katainen will briefly introduce the Investment Plan of the Juncker administration ...

14Apr2015

Recent standpoints on decoloniality

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Sandra Harding, Distinguished Professor of Education and Gender Studies at UCLA , will focus on Latin American decoloniality standpoints and what they can tell us not only about coloniality and anti-coloniality in ...

08Apr2015

Equal rites before the law: religious celebrations of same-sex relationships in the Netherlands, 1967-1970

17:30 - 19:00 | Lecture

David Bos (UvA) will discuss three spectacular, highly publicized cases. He will argue that religious institutions and traditions have not only posed an obstacle to non-heterosexual men and women, but offered them a ...

08Apr2015

Athena Swan Lake: the sororicidal ballet of academic feminism

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Dr Lorna Finlayson (King's College Cambridge) issues a warning about current attempts to increase the participation of women in academia - and in philosophy and political theory in particular - and asks how, as ...

08Apr2015

The color of benefits a large-scale survey experiment on the limits to solidarity

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

What are the limits to our solidarity with unemployed citizens? Who do we consider most deserving of unemployment benefits? Tom van der Meer will present a large-scale Dutch survey experiment covering 10 criteria in ...

08Apr2015

Peers, Pupils or Partners? Models of Youth Engagement

13:40 - 14:40 | Lecture

Peer education and mentoring rose to prominence during the 1990s and 2000s respectively. Both approaches seek to formalise naturally occurring processes, but do so in different ways and rest on different conceptions ...

02Apr2015

Sustainable fashion design: new approaches

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

News about the rapidity, ruthlessness and maleficence of the fashion industry has been widespread. How can we make the fashion industry more sustainable? Finnish researcher Kirsi Niinimäki edited ‘Sustainable ...

01Apr2015

Collective memory after the nation-state

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

Globalization, migration and the internet are changing the ways in which people fashion their identities. How can we rethink collective memory, heritage and museums to fit these changes? With: Marie-Aude Baronian, ...

09Mar2015

The Politics of Difference, Time and Again. On the Ir/Relevance of Race in post-Soviet Human Genetics.

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

A seminar by Susanne Bauer, junior professor in sociology of science at Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main. Her main focus in teaching and research is in STS and her work particularly deals with the life sciences, ...

05Mar2015

Presentation report Monitor Muslim Discrimination

16:30 - 18:00 | Event

For the first time, the views of mosque directors on discriminatory aggression against mosques are voiced. The report is the product of a multi-annual monitoring project on the development of discrimination against ...

04Mar2015

The global corporate elite after the financial crisis

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Eelke Heemskerk discusses the impact of the recent financial crisis on the international network of the corporate elite. Has the structure of corporate governance become more national or have transnational networks ...

02Mar2015

Local shocks: the far right in the 2014 European elections

17:00 - 18:30 | Lecture

According to the international media, the European Union was shaken by a “political earthquake” in May 2014. The source of that earthquake was the electoral success of so-called “anti-EU parties” in general, and far ...

26Feb2015

Humanities in the news: Greece and the prospects for a European Spring

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

What are the consequences of the Greek elections for the future of the Eurozone? Which consequences will they have for anti-austerity politics in other parts of Europe? With: Johan Hartle, Sara Murawski, Dimitris ...

24Feb2015

The human problem at the heart of development. Kapuscinski lecture by Jonathan Jansen

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This Kapuscinski lecture and fourth lecture in the series about the future of international ...

23Feb2015

Yoga, Bingo and Prayer in Urban Renewal Areas

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

Linda van de Kamp reflects on her new research project that starts with the observation that the way people relate to and imagine urban spaces, and thus how people influence the development of urban areas, results ...

17Feb2015

Public policy: new approach, new solutions

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

When we think about public policy, two narratives seem persistent: that of market fundamentalism and government control. These approaches however seem to restrict the creativity of policy makers. Roland Kupers puts ...

16Feb2015

Choose your Master's in Social Sciences on 16 February (UvA Master's Week)

18:30 - 21:30 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 16 February during the UvA Master's Week to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

12Feb2015 13Feb2015

Jerusalem - a city disunited

20:30 | Symposium

In this symposium we will discuss the often unseen or hidden aspects of the current political and social situation in Jerusalem, such as human rights issues, settlements, and urban planning. We will also look at the ...

10Feb2015

Humanities in the news: Europe after Charlie Hebdo

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Researchers Marieke de Goede, Francesco Ragazzi, Jolle Demmers, Mark Deuze and Julien Jeandesboz discuss civil liberties, Islamophobia and the temptation of vigilantism in Europe in the aftermath of the attack on ...

06Feb2015

State violence and the ethics of the minority question in Turkey

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Kabir Tambar (Stanford University) analyses how the category of 'minority' has been constitutive of 'the people' in Turkey, distilling those who do not belong to the history and destiny of the nation from those who ...

29Jan2015

Economic integration and solidarity after the Euro crisis: re-aligning facts, principles and politics

15:30 - 18:30 | Lecture

Maurizio Ferrera, advisor to the European Commission and the Italian government, will give the first ACCESS EUROPE Annual Lecture. He will examine the conflict between the logic of 'opening', which drives the ...

27Jan2015

National experience with war influences post-war grant strategies

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Paul van Hooft investigates how national experiences with war shape post-war grand strategies, and specifically how the experiences with victory and defeat in the Second World War shaped the post-war beliefs and ...

26Jan2015

Of city lounges, assembly-prohibitions and musclemen in pink stilettos

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Class, race and gender in productions of space for Rotterdam’s post-industrial future

19Jan2015 20Jan2015

Security at Large: Violent Exchanges and Citizenship beyond the State

09:30 | Conference

In cities across the world, security has become one of the most prominent concerns in people’s everyday lives. In an increasingly pluralized landscape of security, people rely on a broad range of security providers. ...

14Jan2015

Priority or Equality for Possible People?

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Suppose that under conditions of risk, you must make choices that will influence the utility and the identities of the people who will exist—though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? In ...

12Jan2015

How propaganda works

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Jason Stanley (Yale) will discuss a couple of chapters of his forthcoming book 'How Propaganda Works'. The two chapters together give his account of the problems for democracy raised by flawed ideological belief.

09Jan2015 16Jan2015

Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Workshop

This intensive workshop on negotiation and conflict resolution combines skill building with the developing of a command of analytic theory in a ‘hands-on’ format. It follows what is sometimes referred to as the ...

20Dec2014

Hands off our girls - Social Sciences supports Serious Request

11:00 - 15:00 | Symposium

Sexual violence against women is the featuring topic of this symposium organised by the Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. It is a benefit symposium, which means that all visitors can make a voluntary ...

17Dec2014

‘China’s Continuing Urban Transformation’ with George Lin

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This second lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will ...

12Dec2014

AISSR Annual Harvest Day-inaugural edition

10:45 - 18:00 | Event

The Harvest Day showcases new research results selected from different AISSR programme groups but focused on a shared research theme. This year’s themes are: (1) Migration; (2) Conflict and Post-conflict life; and ...

11Dec2014

Crisis in the EU’s neighbourhood: Who lost Ukraine?

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

The March 2014 annexation of Crimea has raised tensions between the 'West' and Russia, with the EU having to play a key role in the situation. Did the EU adopt the right strategies? With: Ulrich Schneckener, Aaron ...

11Dec2014

The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Professor Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers Business School) will discuss her 2013 book entitled 'The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism' (New York: Russell Sage Foundation). She will focus on her argument ...

10Dec2014

Critical Theory in the Social Sciences

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) will present her most recent book, The Posthuman. The Posthuman offers a major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman and explores the extent to which a ...

08Dec2014

Racializing Security: Plural Policing and Differentiated Citizenship

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

If protecting citizens and maintaining public order have traditionally been seen as core state functions, what does it mean when the state actively shares this monopoly and encourages "plural policing"?