Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...

15Apr2014

IMES PODIUM: Comparative Immigration and America’s Racial Legacy

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

Professor Nancy Foner (City University of New York) will address how America’s history of slavery, segregation, and the civil rights movement -and the very presence of a large African American population - has ...

11Apr2014

Iran: the resilience of the secular middle class

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

The 2009 Green Movement and the mobilizations around the 2013 elections demonstrated the ability of the secular middle-class to mobilize and unify different social demands. These developments indicate that the ...

11Apr2014

The European Semester and the New Architecture of EU Socio-Economic Governance

Workshop

The European Semester constitutes an important development in the architecture of EU socio-economic policy guidance and surveillance. It has given the EU institutions a more prominent and intrusive role than ever ...

10Apr2014

The European Council and the Council New intergovernmentalism and institutional change

13:00 - 14:30 | Lecture

Uwe Puetter, professor at the Central European University in Budapest, argues that the prominence of the European Council and the Council in contemporary EU politics has been triggered by the evolution of those new ...

10Apr2014

Communism, Federalism and Ethnic Minorities: Explaining Party Competition Patterns in Eastern Europe

11:30 - 13:00 | Lecture

Scholarship on eastern European politics expects that party competition in the region is determined by communist legacies that juxtapose state-centric authoritarianism and democratic market economy. But there is ...

07Apr2014

Jens Weidmann and Klaas Knot on the financial future of Europe

12:30 | Event

Jens Weidmann, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, is visiting Amsterdam at the invitation of the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

17Mar2014

Globalizing the city and the grassroots: Political geographies of urban movements and linguistic diversity

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

The linguistic diversity of Europe is often seen as the main barrier to the development of a pan-European public sphere in the European Union. This is true for collective action, as much as for parliamentary ...

05Mar2014

Positionings feminists Belgrade and Zagreb

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Ana Miškovska Kajevska explores the positionings – discourses and activities – of the Belgrade and Zagreb feminists vis-à-vis the (post-) Yugoslav wars and one another in the period between 1991 and 2000. Miškovska ...

21Feb2014

The liberalisation of television systems in Western Europe

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the television sector in Western Europe was liberalised. Bouchra Arbaoui investigates the aggregate level changes in television systems after the large-scale introduction of ...

20Feb2014

Political Science Seminar with James Holston

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

James Holston's current research examines the worldwide insurgence of democratic citizenships in the context of global urbanization, especially the generation of insurgent citizenship among the urban working classes ...

17Feb2014

KennisCafé: De seksparadox

20:00 - 00:00 | Event

Sinds de seksuele revolutie staat seks op de politieke en sociale agenda en is het nauw verbonden met emancipatie van vrouwen en (seksuele) minderheden. Het staat voor vooruitgang!

15Feb2014

UvA Master's Day - 15 February

10:00 - 15:30 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 15 February to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

13Feb2014

Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

16:00 | Event

Lars-Erik Cederman ( ETH Zurich ) and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ( Essex, UK) will present their recent book in which they argue that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that ...

07Feb2014

Urban Governance and the End of Civil Society: Community Organizations in the Rust Belt from Populism to Foreclosure

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

Michael McQuarrie will present his paper that demonstrates how civil society is transformed as it becomes incorporated into urban governance.

06Feb2014

The European Union in the World: a research dialogue

18:00 - 20:00 | Debate

Does the EU exercise its normative power ‘successfully’? Is the EU a successful and powerful negotiator on the international scene? As an emergent actor on the international scene, how does the EU come to terms with ...

31Jan2014

Multiculturalism Permitted in English Only

10:00 - 12:00 | Event

Donaldo Macedo is a Cape Verdean-American critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy and education studies.

22Jan2014 23Jan2014

Inaugural Event ACCESS EUROPE: Europe in Crisis – Resilient Europe

15:00 | Event

The Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European StudieS (ACCESS EUROPE), an initiative of the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will kick off on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 January with ...

16Jan2014

Challenging Executive Dominance in European Democracy

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Deirdre Curtin present her paper on executive dominance in the contemporary EU. She argues that such dominance is part of a wider migration of executive power towards types of decision making that eschew electoral ...

16Jan2014

AMCIS Celebration: Four Years Ahead

13:00 - 20:00 | Event

For this event we invite you for a mini‐symposium organized around research conducted at AMCIS presented by AMCIS postdocs from Sociology, Educational Science and Political Science, complemented by a keynote lecture ...

15Jan2014

EU-US Relations after Snowden: Data, Democracy, Security

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

The so-called PRISM affair calls into question the capacity of the European Union to protect citizens and residents against the intelligence activities of third countries and its own Member States. This roundtable ...