Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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"?

04Dec2014 05Dec2014

Justice in Migration. New Issues and Perspectives.

Event

This event will present a keynote by David Miller of Oxford University and bring together a small group of European scholars working on questions relating to the ethics of immigration, such as the ethics of ...

03Dec2014

In Draghi we trust

12:30 - 14:30 | Lecture

The 2008 global financial crisis came with fears - and, for some, hopes of a new wave of public mobilisation in industrialised countries. Large protests were particularly expected in the epicentre of the crisis, the ...

27Nov2014

Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System

17:30 - 19:30 | Exhibition

Darshan will deliver an audio-visual reprise of the book’s central idea: that ‘mental maps' shape the way that societies throughout history have determined who belongs where. This promises to be an intimate and ...

27Nov2014

Blaming Europe? Voters, Elites and the Media in the European Union

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

In this lecture, Professor Sara Hobolt discusses her recent book, 'Blaming Europe? Responsibility without Accountability in the European Union' (co-authored with James Tilley). Hobolt examines a key component of ...

24Nov2014

Is the EU doomed?

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. Jan Zielonka foresees a strongly integrated Europe, ...

21Nov2014

Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation on International Security

12:00 - 14:00 | Debate

Although international security is often considered a domain of the executive, parliaments have been playing an active role in Western security politics.

21Nov2014

The moral limits of the internal market

09:00 - 18:00 | Conference

A conference organised by Marija Bartl, Ulad Belavusau, Gareth Davies, Martijn Hesselink, Clemens Kaupa, Lyn Tjon Soei Len of the "European Constitutionalism" theme of ACCESS EUROPE.

20Nov2014

Researching and publishing political economy in the age of Twitter, TED talks and external grant dependence

16:00 - 18:00 | Event

In April 2014, the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) has formally moved from McGill University in Canada to the University of Amsterdam. We embrace this occasion not only to toast and welcome the ...

19Nov2014

‘Sustainability and inclusive development' with Joyeeta Gupta

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 ...

19Nov2014

Public Mediation Programme (PMP) at the UvA-grand opening

15:30 - 17:30 | Event

PMP is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Political Science at the UvA under the ‘wings’ of Alexander Rinnooy Kan, University Professor. The programme seeks to develop the practice and ...

18Nov2014

Cultural Encounters: Sweden and the Netherlands

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

As part of the 400 years jubilee of diplomatic relations between Sweden and the Netherlands, we turn to Swedish-Dutch cultural encounters. How do Swedish artists experience working in a Dutch environment? Composer ...

17Nov2014

Crossing borders, changing identities? Travel documents, money and personhood

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

This talk will question what it means to be a citizen as a person and the way the state establishes its relation with its subjects - in particular, how documentation affects processes of kinship.

17Nov2014 18Nov2014

The Social Question in a Global Perspective

09:00 | Conference

Researchers from India, Brasil, Africa, Hungary, the Netherlands and other countries will rethink the concept of the working class and the ways in which it can further its interests. Traditional forms of collective ...

13Nov2014

Human Rights: What’s Your Argument? Part 3: How to defend human rights with limited freedom of expression?

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

In many places today civil society and human rights defenders are facing more and more challenges and restrictions. How can we explain this development? What can we do about it? How is the internet a part of this: ...

13Nov2014 14Nov2014

The European Union and the Arab Spring: Constructions of Security in the Southern Mediterranean

Workshop

ACCESS EUROPE organises a two-day workshop on The European Union and the Arab Spring: Constructions of Security in the Southern Mediterranean. This workshop is organised by the ‘Europe in the World’ research theme.

07Nov2014

The Fable of White Ethnic Harmony and Black/White Opposition: Race in Merchant/Customer Conflict in the US

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Steven Gold (Michigan State University) will explore patterns of conflict in two eras in urban neighborhoods in the US. He will review the historical experience of immigrant entrepreneurs in the American South where ...

05Nov2014

Moving Traditions - the story of Zwarte Piet

17:00 - 21:30 | Symposium

Zwarte Piet is a much beloved but controversial Dutch tradition. Visit this symposium on 5 November for a dialogue among academics and artists and a reflection on the current debate.

05Nov2014

Piketty in the Netherlands: economic inequality and its consequences

15:30 - 17:30 | Symposium

At the same time that Thomas Piketty is visiting the Dutch Parliament, AMCIS organizes a mini-symposium to contextualize his book 'Capital in the 21st Century' to the Netherlands, and to discuss possible consequences ...

31Oct2014

Catching Fire: Assessing Cities, Conflicts, and Diffusion in Québec, Canada

12:00 - 15:00 | Lecture

In this presentation, we discuss urban conflicts that took place in Quebec and Montreal cities for two decades. We show that the modeling of conflict activity offers new paths for research: systematic comparative ...

31Oct2014

Ordinary Imperatives: migration "within" social change

09:00 - 11:00 | Lecture

This lecture explores the accelerated pace of societal transformation intrinsic to twenty-first century mobility through conceptualising its ordinary unfolding. We will focus on how urban societies are diversifying ...