Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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.