Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...

30Oct2014

Security Unbound: Insecurities, Suspicion and Democracy

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

The relation between security and democracy is a defining contemporary political question in Europe. As skepticism about the raft of security measures adopted throughout a decade and a half of proclaimed security ...

30Oct2014 31Oct2014

Multilevel Democracy

12:00 | Workshop

The Treaty of Lisbon (Art. 8A.2) recognizes that the functioning of the European Union is based on two channels of democratic representation: directly through the European Parliament and indirectly through the ...

29Oct2014

SPUI25 on location: 'How can we end extreme poverty?' with Shanta Devarajan

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 first lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will be ...

10Oct2014

What's in a label? Understanding the EU in constitutional, executive, and/or administrative terms

13:30 - 17:00 | Debate

A discussion of the nature of integration, and the nature of its legitimacy, with Peter Lindseth (University of Connecticut Law School/Tilburg Law School) Chris Lord (ARENA, University of Oslo) Leonard Besselink ...

09Oct2014

Mobilizing for migrant rights in the 21st century. Comparative perspectives on migrant organizing, labor and citizenship between Europe and the United States

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

This roundtable with key note speaker Prof. Ruth Milkman (CUNY) focuses on migrant rights mobilizations and migrant organizing across Europe and the U.S. In a time of restrictive migration policies, increasing ...

09Oct2014

Methodological approaches to legitimacy in EU legal research

14:00 - 16:00 | Workshop

Peter Lindseth, author of Power and Legitimacy. Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP, 2010) will discuss the participants’ individual research projects focusing on methodological approaches to legitimacy in ...

08Oct2014

Europe as a ‘greater Holland’. European integration and Dutch politics in the 1950s and 1960s

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Robin de Bruin challenges popular interpretations of the course of Dutch domestic politics in the early days of European integration, building on his recently published monograph ‘The Elastic European Ideal. European ...

07Oct2014

Assessing party-voter congruence over time: towards convergence in times of crisis?

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

ACCESS EUROPE postdoc Katjana Gattermann will present a paper on the (lack of) congruence between voter preferences and party positions in the European context. The recent elections of the European Parliament ...

26Sept2014

Perceptions of “the state” as an enemy and xenophobia in crisis-ridden Athens

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Pratsinakis conducted research in the Amity (Omónia) square area in Athens in which he focused on one housing block in which immigrants of different descent and natives lived close to each other.

18Sept2014

Global Challenges and European Politics: New Wines in Old Bottles?

17:00 - 19:15 | Event

Europe is facing a wide range of external challenges, from climate change to energy dependency to the rising multipolar world. This autumn a new European Commission will be inaugurated and successors of Herman van ...

17Sept2014

ACCESS EUROPE lunch seminar with Alejandro Portes

12:00 - 13:30 | Lecture

In this lecture, Professor Portes will summarize results of a recently-completed study of a sample of Portuguese national institutions and their bearing on national development.

12Sept2014

Methodological Lessons for the Comparative Study of the Adaptation of Children of Immigrants

09:00 - 11:00 | Lecture

Children of immigrants comprise one-in-five of Americans under age 18 and the proportion is growing rapidly. Portes deals with their adaptation and the forces impinging on it.

11Sept2014

Gujarat Research Network Seminar

09:00 - 20:30 | Symposium

The purpose of the seminar is an academic exchange between emerging and established scholars doing research on Gujarat, in various institutes in Europe.

10Sept2014 12Sept2014

Security on the Move

Event

The SECURCIT research group, in cooperation with gate48 and De Balie, is organizing a series of events on security mobilities, with a film screening on the Israeli military occupation in Palestine and a public ...

09Sept2014

European security policy in the age of drones

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Ana Juncos, ACCESS EUROPE visiting scholar for the theme 'Europe and the World', discusses European security policy in the age of drones.

04Sept2014 05Sept2014

Representing Catastrophe

10:00 | Workshop

Representatives from academic, NGO and charity sectors will jointly discuss disaster mediatization and consumption and how these can enhance and undermine community resources for dealing with disasters. With its ...

03Sept2014

Victus, the fall of Barcelona and European history

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

The War of the Spanish Succession, theme of Albert Sánchez Piñols historical novel Victus, was one of the first of the world struggles. Amongst major European power shifts, Catalonia lost its independence. As there ...

22Aug2014 23Aug2014

Experimentalist Regimes in Transnational Governance: The European Union and Beyond

09:00 | Conference

This conference, organized by Jonathan Zeitlin (University of Amsterdam) and Charles Sabel (Columbia University Law School), involving an international working group of scholars from multiple disciplines, focuses on ...

02July2014

Theorizing blackness and whiteness in historical perspective in the Netherlands

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Forthcoming ir/relevance of race seminar with Dienke Hondius, Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Free University Amsterdam. Abstract will follow

25June2014

Demonization of political parties in the Netherlands

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Sjoerdje van Heerden explores the demonization of political parties in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2011. After thoroughly conceptualizing the term ‘demonization’, Van Heerden goes on to analyze the effects of ...