Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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.

02Mar2013

Master's Day Graduate School of Social Sciences

09:00 - 17:00 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on Saturday, 2 March 2013 to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

18Jan2013

Book presentation by Marieke de Goede: Speculative Security

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

What are the functionalities of counter terrorist finance? Marieke de Goede will present her book 'Speculative Security' and discuss this theme with Beatrice de Graaf, Floris Vermeulen and Joyce Goggin

08Jan2013

UvA celebrates 381st Dies Natalis

15:00 - 16:45 | Event

The 381st Dies Natalis (anniversary) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will take place on Tuesday, 8 January 2013. Prof. A.P. Hardon, professor of Anthropology of Health and Social Care will give the Dies lecture.

19Dec2012

Is Left/Right Still the ‘Super Glue’? The Role of Left/Right Ideology and Issues in Electoral Politics in Western and East Central Europe

14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Agnieszka Walczak will defende her thesis on left/right ideology and voting behaviour.

14Dec2012

Elias Canetti as guiding author

14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Bart Hageraats studied the life and work of the Bulgarian-Swiss author Elias Canetti (1905-1994). His research focus is on topics relating to mass, Verwandlung, Chinese texts and philosophy.

13Dec2012 14Dec2012

Cedla-NALACS International Conference

Conference

This two-day conference will address resource use in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since the start of the 21st Century, the region has been transformed by a complex interaction between market forces, government ...

12Dec2012

Whatever happened 2 Racism in the Netherlands?

19:00 - 00:30 | Conference

Explicit talk about racial differences is conspicuously absent in in the public debate in The Netherlands. The question is: what happened to racism in the Netherlands?

12Dec2012 14Dec2012

Culturalization of Citizenship: On Racism, Populism and Authenticity

Conference

How does the culturalization of Dutch citizenship manifest itself, both at the national and local level? How do native-born Dutch and migrants experience this culturalization? And how different is the Dutch case from ...

11Dec2012

Remote controlled warfare: drones and the (un)making of accountability

15:00 - 17:00 | Debate

The aim of this seminar is to explore the implications of practices of remote controlled warfare in the making and unmaking of public accountability. Because of the remoteness it introduces into the practice of ...

29Nov2012

Between Austerity and Security

19:30 - 21:15 | Lecture

The IS Academie on Education and International Development organises a public lecture on the effects of the global financial crisis and the new security agenda on international development assistance to education.