Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...

24June2014

Democracy in Greece, from the cradle to the grave?

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Tom de Bruijn, member of the Dutch State Council and Chair of the Advisory Board of ACCESS EUROPE, will give a public lecture on his experiences as special advisor to the Task Force for Greece of the European Commission.

23June2014

The Politicization and Legitimacy of Regional Integration: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Approach

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this presentation, Professor Ruud Koopmans investigates the legitimacy and politicization of regional international organizations from a comparative perspective. Distinguishing performatory (output) and procedural ...

19June2014 20June2014

Up to the mainstream? Radical right parties in Western Europe, 2000-2013

13:30 | Workshop

The radical right party family has gone through various transitions during the past three decades. The adaptation of an anti-immigration master-frame and electoral successes opened up an escape from the political ...

13June2014

An analytical framework for political legitimacy

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Not only scholars, but also politicians, journalists and citizens are interested in the concept of political legitimacy. Beno Netelenbos analyses how political legitimacy can be understood and researched, and shows ...

13June2014

Foreign Policy and Ethnography: Researching European Expertise (2)

12:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the methods and challenges of doing fieldwork in foreign policy settings. Special guest is Merje Kuus from the University of British Columbia, visiting professor at ACCESS ...

12June2014

Political Science Seminar with Aseem Prakash

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

Professor Prakash studies environmental issues, international political economy, and NGO politics. Much of his work focuses on voluntary environmental programs. He has extended this work to study corporate social ...

05June2014

Making YuRope. The tension between new memoryscapes in Western Balkans and European politics of memory

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Francesco Mazzucchelli, visiting scholar for the ACCESS EUROPE theme 'European Identity and Culture' gives a lecture on Europe's relationship with former Yugoslavia.

04June2014

Foreign Policy and Ethnography: Researching European Expertise (1)

12:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the methods and challenges of doing fieldwork in foreign policy settings. Special guest is Merje Kuus from the University of British Columbia, visiting professor at ACCESS ...

04June2014 07June2014

Objects in/of Migration

Event

This exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum draws together artists, musicians, actors and creative writers to explore the experience of serial migration. 6 June a live performance and reception will take place for ...

03June2014

Knowledge and Authority in European Institutions, or: How Do Diplomats Know What They Know

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Drawing on her recent book, Merje Kuus starts to unpack the production of expert authority in Brussels. Relying empirically on over one hundred interviews with 73 foreign affairs professionals, she disentangles some ...

26May2014

European Elections: the Day After

20:00 - 22:00 | Debate

A panel consisting of Ewald Engelen (UvA), Sarah de Lange (UvA), Ben Crum (VU) and Katjana Gattermann (ACCESS EUROPE postdoc), moderated by Mark Beunderman (NRC Handelsblad), will analyse and discuss the ...

20May2014

SPUI25 op Locatie: New Perspectives on Muslims in Europe

20:00 - 22:00 | Lecture

John R. Bowen (Washington University), Christophe Bertossi (French Institute of International Relations) and Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam) present their new book "European states and their Muslim ...

20May2014

Political Science Seminar with Mark Warren

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

Warren’s current research interests fall within the field of democratic theory. He is especially interested in new forms of citizen participation, new forms of democratic representation, the relationship between ...

14May2014

The evolution of stakeholder involvement in EU regulatory governance: The case of securities regulation in the European Union

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Kutsal Yesilkagit (Utrecht University) will discuss a forthcoming paper, co-authored with Dr. Caelesta Braun of the VU University, on stakeholder involvement in regulatory governance in the EU.

12May2014

"Segmented assimilation theory extended: ‘Revivification’ of ethnic identity among second generation Moroccan and Turkish Dutch social climbers”

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this paper Marieke Slootman identifies a trajectory of immigrant incorporation among ethnic minority social climbers that is characterized by a ‘revivification’ of ethnic identity in early adulthood.

07May2014

Holland sings Dutch. The performance of Dutchness in a popular sing-along culture

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Irene Stengs (Meertens Instituut) will anayse a specific Dutch popular song genre called 'levenslied' (literally ‘song of life’) and the way in which jointly levenslied singing embodies sentiments of Dutchness.

06May2014

The Deadly Life of Logistics: From Military Art to Corporate Science

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

In the field of logistics, the work of militaries and markets has long been heavily entwined. But how did the ‘revolution in logistics’ – arguably the most understudied revolution of the 20th century - transform the ...

28Apr2014

The First European Presidential Debate

18:30 - 22:00 | Debate

ACCESS EUROPE and Machiavelli organise the Amsterdam live-stream of the first debate of the candidates for the presidency of the European Commission who will battle out key issues on the future of Europe. The debate ...

23Apr2014

Patterns of issue competition in complex multiparty systems

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Why did the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima lead to significant politicisation of the issue of nuclear energy in Germany, but hardly elicit any political attention in France? Why did immigration become one of ...

22Apr2014

New Governance and the European Union. An Empirical and Conceptual Critique

12:15 - 13:30 | Lecture

In exploring a wide range of developments in EU governance across a variety of policy domains and over many years, Professor Kenneth Armstrong (University of Cambridge) pinpoints the potential contribution of new ...