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'.