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Events related to the discipline Political Science
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15Apr2014
Read moreIMES 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 ...
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11Apr2014
Read moreIran: 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 ...
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11Apr2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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10Apr2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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10Apr2014
Read moreCommunism, 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 ...
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07Apr2014Read more
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.
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17Mar2014Read more
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 ...
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05Mar2014Read more
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 ...
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21Feb2014Read more
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 ...
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20Feb2014
Read morePolitical 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 ...
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17Feb2014
Read moreKennisCafé: 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!
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15Feb2014Read more
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.
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13Feb2014
Read moreInequality, 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 ...
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07Feb2014Read more
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.
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06Feb2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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31Jan2014Read more
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.
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22Jan2014 23Jan2014
Read moreInaugural 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 ...
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16Jan2014
Read moreChallenging 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 ...
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16Jan2014Read more
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 ...
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15Jan2014
Read moreEU-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 ...
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10Jan2014 17Jan2014
Read moreWorkshop 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 ...
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10Dec2013Read more
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 ...
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22Nov2013
Read moreFutures 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).
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14Nov2013Read more
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 ...
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13Nov2013
Read moreThe 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?
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06Nov2013Read more
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.
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31Oct2013Read more
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.
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31Oct2013Read more
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 ...
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14Oct2013Read more
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).
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07Oct2013Read more
A way beyond methodological Nationalism:
15:30 - 00:00 | Lecture
Sociology Seminar by Manolis Pratsinakis, AISSR
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25Sept2013Read more
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 ...
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03Sept2013Read more
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 ...
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25June2013Read more
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.
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25June2013 27June2013
Read moreCrisis 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).
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24June2013Read more
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 ...
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24June2013Read more
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 ...
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21June2013Read more
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 ...
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18June2013
Read moreChanging 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 ...
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10June2013Read more
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 ...
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06June2013
Read moreMr 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'.
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05June2013Read more
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 ...
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04June2013 18June2013Read more
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.
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04June2013Read more
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 ...
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22Apr2013Read more
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.
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18Apr2013Read more
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 ...
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04Apr2013Read more
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 ...
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21Mar2013Read more
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.
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20Mar2013Read more
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 ...
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06Mar2013Read more
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.
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04Mar2013Read more
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.
