Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...