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 ...