AISSR Annual Harvest Day-inaugural edition

Event

The Harvest Day showcases new research results selected from different AISSR programme groups but focused on a shared research theme. This year’s themes are: (1) Migration; (2) Conflict and Post-conflict life; and (3) Sustainable Development & Socio-economics.

The Harvest Day makes use of a non-traditional format that we hope provides fresh insights into our research. The format is an integrated programme combining a Plenary Session introducing the three themes, followed by three Open Space discussions of the actual harvested research in each theme. 

Harvest Plenary Session

The Harvest Plenary Session introduces the harvested AISSR research through a combination of keynote addresses and film clips.

For each theme, a keynote speaker briefly addresses how the theme cuts through our programme groups and disciplines and then introduces a film clip with five or six AISSR researchers. In these clips, the researchers introduce and motivate the harvested research that they have published or are about to, highlighting the questions or problems that their work explores. 

The actual answers and results of this research – the actual harvest – are presented and discussed in the Open Space discussions, after the plenary.

Harvest Open Space 

The Harvest Open Space discussions are held in consecutive blocks of time for each theme. For each Open-Space round, the six researchers informally present the results of their published piece within the theme and lead a discussion of these results with participants. These discussions take place in parallel in an open space of tables for each presenting researcher.

We provide drinks and refreshments during these informal discussions.  We reserve an hour for each Open Space round, meaning that participants must choose a taste of no more than a couple of offerings from the harvest. Following the last Open Space round, we continue the discussions over drinks.

Presenters

Theme Conflict & Post-conflict Life

• Keynote by Marlies Glasius (Political Science)
• Ria Reis (Medical Anthropology): Conflict, children and idioms of distress
• Lee Seymour (Political Science): Things fall apart: fragmentation in civil war
• Mieke Lopes Cardozo (International Development Studies): Education matters for building peace
• Ursula Daxecker (Political Science): Election violence
• Bowen Paulle (Sociology): Self-destruction in toxic schools

Theme Migration

• Keynote by Mario Rutten (Anthropology)
• Jan Willem Duyvendak (Sociology): Do migrants remake the mainstream?
• Tom van der Meer (Political Science): Unity in diversity?
• Robert Kloosterman (Human Geography): Super-diverse Amsterdam
• Annelies Moors (Cultural Anthropology): Muslim fashions: what does Islam have to do with it?
• Amade M’Charek (Medical Anthropology): Race, genetics and temporality
• Matthijs Kalmijn (Sociology): Ethnic differences in the effects of family structure

Theme Sustainable Development & Socio Economics

• Keynote by Joyeeta Gupta (International Development Studies)
• Luc Fransen (Political Science): Explaining the profileration of sustainable standards
• Ewald Engelen (Human/Financial Geography): Piketty, sustainable finance and Europe
• Olav Velthuis (Cultural Sociology):  How do art markets emerge?
• Christian Broër (Political Sociology): Private troubles public issues: public approaches to issues like illness and pollution.
• Richard Ronald (Urban Geography): Housing and socio economic and demographic change 

Programme

Harvest Plenary Session (CREA Theatre)

• 10.45-11.00: Welcome by Prof. Brian Burgoon, Scientific Director AISSR
• 11.00-11.30: Theme 1. Conflict & Post-conflict life (keynote and film clip)
• 11.30-12.00: Theme 2. Migration (keynote and film clip)
• 12.00-12.30: Theme 3. Sustainable Development & Socio Economics (keynote and film clip)
• 12.30-13.30: Lunch 

Harvest Open Space Sessions (CREA Muziekzaal)

• 13.30-14.30: Open Space round 1 Conflict & Post-conflict life
• 14.30-15.30: Open Space round 2 Migration
• 15.30-16.30: Open Space round 3 Sustainable Development & Socio Economics
• 16.30: Drinks  

Registration

We welcome (AISSR) researchers,students, stakeholders and other interested parties to this event. The event is almost fully booked, but if you would like to attend, please send an email to: k.kraal@uva.nl. We will do our best to welcome you. 

Published by  AISSR