Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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.

29Nov2012

The underpinnings of HIV- and AIDS-related education in Mozambique: a qualitative inquiry

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

The importance of education in general and HIV- and AIDS-related education in particular in efforts to decrease young people’s vulnerability to HIV has been broadly accepted. As demonstrated by continuing debate ...

28Nov2012

Urban Encounters, Public Institutions and the New Europe

19:30 - 22:00 | Event

A new Europe is taking shape, but judging from debates in various quarters, we can hardly speak of common understandings of what form this renewal is taking.

23Nov2012

Career Event Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS)

13:00 - 18:00 | Information event

How can you distinguish yourself from your peers? Networking is now more important than ever before. This will therefore be the focus of the GSSS Career Event, to make sure that you are One Step ahead in Times of ...

22Nov2012

The Rise of the Diasporic Economy: Migration and Contemporary Global Development

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

The diasporic economy is one of the key growth poles in the contemporary world economy in spite of the general downswing in economic activity in key sectors of the world economy due to the current global economic crisis.

16Nov2012

Second Meeting AMCIS Inequality Seminar on 'Corporate Governance and Inequality'

12:00 - 14:00 | Lecture

Attention: Friday in place of Thursday. Location to be announced.

07Nov2012

Election Breakfast USA

07:30 | Event

Who will win the upcoming American elections: Obama or Romney?On Wednesday 7 November at approximately 07:30, the next American president for the coming four years will be announced.

08Oct2012

Beyond groupism?

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

This semester’s second sociology seminar has a special setup. In collaboration with IMES, we are happy to invite you to a discussion with Rogers Brubaker and Bowen Paulle

01Oct2012 03Oct2012

AISSR Short intensive course on Globalization, Crisis and Insecurity

09:00 | Course

This short intenstive course is aimed at PhD Candidates. With guest speakers Susana Narotzky, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Niko Besnier and Sébastien Chauvin.

21Sept2012

John Gray: Myth and Fiction in Contemporary Politics

20:00 - 22:00 | Lecture

During the sixth SPUI25 Lecture, the British political philosopher John Gray will try to expose the elements of myth and fiction in contemporary thought and reflect on how politics and ethics can change so they are ...

20Sept2012

Culture in International Relations

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Prof. Ned Lebow, University of Cambridge, will talk about interstate relations and how these are embedded in culture that determines who counts as an actor, shapes the ends they seek and the ways they interact. Why ...

10Nov2010

Perspectives on European Security Culture

13:00 - 15:30 | Conference

This event is organized and sponsored by the NWO-Vidi project ‘European Security Culture' at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and the MA programme ‘EU in a Global Order' at the Department of ...