Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...

10Jan2014 17Jan2014

Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Workshop

This intensive workshop on negotiation and conflict resolution combines skill building with the development of analytic skills in a ‘hands-on’ format following what is sometimes called the ‘Harvard method’ of ...

10Dec2013

Race and Inequality in South Africa at Mandela's Death

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Prof. Patrick Lynn Rivers is currently completing a book about Nelson Mandela's political thought. To South Africans, Mandela represents closure marking the transition from the colonial and apartheid past to ...

22Nov2013

Futures of Forensics in Europe

13:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

With this event we will celebrate the launch of the European Network for the Social Studies of Forensics (EUnetSSF).

14Nov2013

Official opening of the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) at the University of Amsterdam.

16:00 - 18:30 | Event

You are cordially invited to attend the opening Official opening of the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) at the University of Amsterdam. This opening will take place on Thursday, November 14th in ...

13Nov2013

The Arab Winter: EU responses to latest developments in Syria

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

Did the Arab Spring change the role of the EU in the region? Has the EU reacted to the turbulence and transformation in the region quickly and effectively enough?

06Nov2013

Ir/relevance of race

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this seminar series the relevance and irrelevance of race are being discussed as an object and concept of research in order to explore ways to talk about race without naturalizing differences.

31Oct2013

GSSS Open Day on 31 October

18:00 - 22:00 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 31 October (18:00-22:00) to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

31Oct2013

Renewing Democracy

14:00 - 17:15 | Symposium

Researchers and practitioners will join to discuss the future of democracy and will address democratic innovation and social change in Europe. The relation between top down government actions and bottom-up ...

14Oct2013

Politicisation of race post-apartheid

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

In the Seminar Series: Ir/relevance of Race in Science and Society: inviting you to a guest lecture given by AISSR visiting professor Deborah Posel (University of Cape Town).

07Oct2013

A way beyond methodological Nationalism:

15:30 - 00:00 | Lecture

Sociology Seminar by Manolis Pratsinakis, AISSR

25Sept2013

Democratisation process difficult to predict in authoritarian regime

16:00 | Inaugural lecture

In a multitude of ways all over the world, citizens are increasingly demanding that political leaders be held accountable for their actions, as was the case in the Arab Spring. During her inaugural lecture, Marlies ...

03Sept2013

The European fight against terrorism financing

12:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Mara Wesseling explores the way in which the European fight against terrorism financing is shaped, as well as the results of the adopted measures. Special attention is paid to the use of massive databases containing ...

25June2013

Policing protest in times of austerity

13:00 - 14:00 | Lecture

Police violence in Taksim Square in Istanbul is yet another example of escalating policing. Donatella Della Porta will present to you the emerging model of protest policing and its causal mechanisms.

25June2013 27June2013

Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability

Conference

The conference program features the world's leading authorities on Europe. The conference is organised by the Council for European Studies (CES).

24June2013

Round table on Forced Migration

18:00 - 20:00 | Debate

Refugees, asylum-seekers and other people whose very mobility has been forced upon them have been a growing category of mobile population in the twentieth century and the focus of social policies and political ...

24June2013

Race in a Bottle: Law, Commerce and the Production of Race in Biomedicine

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Under the auspices of the AISSR programmegroup 'Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body', Jonathan Kahn will present a lecture, related to his new book ‘Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine ...

21June2013

Good and Bad Diversity: The Crises of Multiculturalism as a Crisis of Politics

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Drawing on The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, my latest book with Gavan Titley, I argue that the commonplace suggestion that ...

18June2013

Changing Ideas and Practices for Making Cities Fair

15:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

This lecture traces the divergent and contradictory intellectual and practice based traditions that the notion of fairness in the city implies, including the work on urban equity, justice, redistribution, the public ...

10June2013

An inspiring, dangerous idea. The science and politics of self-organization.

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Self-organization is an idea whose time has come. As an explanatory concept, self-organization is central to complexity theory, which is quickly becoming a powerful and perhaps even dominant paradigm in both the ...

06June2013

Mr Prof. dr. B.M. Burgoon

16:00 | Inaugural lecture

Mr Prof. dr. B.M. Burgoon, Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy: 'Political Economy of Re-embedding Liberalism'.

05June2013

Meaning(s) of “race”: The US as a comparative case.

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

The argument is often heard these days in Netherlands’ discussions of “race”that the term means, or is used to mean, “culture.” But against what position is this argument advanced? And on what evidence does it ...

04June2013 18June2013

Conflict Resolution

18:00 | Lecture

The Dialogue Advisory Group and the University of Amsterdam organise lectures where practitioners in the field of conflict resolution share their their personal personal stories and experiences.

04June2013

IMES Podium: Mobility, Territory, State

15:30 - 17:00 | Debate

International migration between developing and developed worlds has peaked and will gradually taper off over the coming decades. By way of contrast, short-distance migration in regions like sub-Saharan Africa - to ...

22Apr2013

Recognizing Migrant Emplacement: Researching Without an Ethnic Lens

15:00 - 17:00 | Debate

This presentation contributes to the current efforts to develop a scholarship that does not rely on an ethnic lens to study migrant practices, socialities and identities.

18Apr2013

Geography and the New Political Economy of US Intelligence

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Political and economic geographer, Susan Roberts presents collaborative work with Jeremy Crampton and Ate Poorthuis on a troubling new political economy of geographical intelligence that has emerged in the United ...

04Apr2013

Ethno-Territorial Conflict and Coexistence in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Fereydan

17:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Babak Rezvani will present his study of ethno-territorial conflicts and peaceful coexistence between ethnic groups in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Fereydan (Iran), all of which are ethnically, linguistically and ...

21Mar2013

Established political parties not more populist

10:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Established political parties have not become more populist. Moreover, after their election successes populist parties have just become less populist. This is the finding of Matthijs Rooduijn.

20Mar2013

America's New Class Divide

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Mark Lilla, Columbia University, will discuss growing social inequality in the United States and he will focus on the intellectual divide between liberals and conservatives on this issue. Both sides, for the first ...

06Mar2013

Creating a European Banking Union: The First Steps to Where

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

As a preeminent expert in the field of financial markets and supervision, Eilís Ferran will disentangle for us the economic, political and legal dimensions, opportunities and threats of the banking union.

04Mar2013

Security, Visuality, Anticipation Public Lectures

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

These lectures are organized as part of the workshop 'Anticipate and Preempt: Speculative Security Politics and the European Union', organised by the NWO-Vidi project on European Security Culture.