Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

30Apr2015

Eurocommissioner Moedas and State Secretary Dekker at Room for Discussion

13:30 - 14:30 | Debate

For the second time in three weeks, the Roeterseiland campus will host a Eurocommissioner. On 14 April, ACCESS EUROPE welcomed Jyrki Katainen for a discussion with about Europe's future, on 30 April Carlos Moedas, ...

29Apr2015

Close to a Brexit?

20:00 - 21:30 | Lecture

Sir Colin Budd will describe the current debate in the UK about membership of the European Union, including the possibility of a Brexit, and the ways in which the UK would like the EU to change. He will also reflect ...

29Apr2015

Close to a Brexit?

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

With the upcoming general elections in the UK, the possibility of a Brexit (shorthand for British exit from the European Union) is widely debated again. Sir Colin Budd, former member of the UK Diplomatic Service, ...

28Apr2015

Responsive technocrats?

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

What are the policy consequences of the public politicisation of European integration? Christian Rauh will argue that higher levels of public contestation challenge the hitherto often technocratic mode of policy ...

14Apr2015

Screening Politics: Syriana

20:00 | Event

Brian Burgoon will introduce and discuss this film that tells the story of the transnational politics of US foreign policy and practice in the Middle East. That story turns out to be one where many familiar forces of ...

14Apr2015

The future of international development studies: final debate

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. Global trends indicate rising inequality and degrading ecosystems. Extrapolated into the ...

14Apr2015

On the future of Europe - with European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen

16:00 - 17:00 | Debate

European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen will speak at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, as a guest of ACCESS EUROPE. Mr. Katainen will briefly introduce the Investment Plan of the Juncker administration ...

14Apr2015

Recent standpoints on decoloniality

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Sandra Harding, Distinguished Professor of Education and Gender Studies at UCLA , will focus on Latin American decoloniality standpoints and what they can tell us not only about coloniality and anti-coloniality in ...

08Apr2015

Equal rites before the law: religious celebrations of same-sex relationships in the Netherlands, 1967-1970

17:30 - 19:00 | Lecture

David Bos (UvA) will discuss three spectacular, highly publicized cases. He will argue that religious institutions and traditions have not only posed an obstacle to non-heterosexual men and women, but offered them a ...

08Apr2015

Athena Swan Lake: the sororicidal ballet of academic feminism

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Dr Lorna Finlayson (King's College Cambridge) issues a warning about current attempts to increase the participation of women in academia - and in philosophy and political theory in particular - and asks how, as ...

08Apr2015

The color of benefits a large-scale survey experiment on the limits to solidarity

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

What are the limits to our solidarity with unemployed citizens? Who do we consider most deserving of unemployment benefits? Tom van der Meer will present a large-scale Dutch survey experiment covering 10 criteria in ...

08Apr2015

Peers, Pupils or Partners? Models of Youth Engagement

13:40 - 14:40 | Lecture

Peer education and mentoring rose to prominence during the 1990s and 2000s respectively. Both approaches seek to formalise naturally occurring processes, but do so in different ways and rest on different conceptions ...

02Apr2015

Sustainable fashion design: new approaches

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

News about the rapidity, ruthlessness and maleficence of the fashion industry has been widespread. How can we make the fashion industry more sustainable? Finnish researcher Kirsi Niinimäki edited ‘Sustainable ...

01Apr2015

Collective memory after the nation-state

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

Globalization, migration and the internet are changing the ways in which people fashion their identities. How can we rethink collective memory, heritage and museums to fit these changes? With: Marie-Aude Baronian, ...

09Mar2015

The Politics of Difference, Time and Again. On the Ir/Relevance of Race in post-Soviet Human Genetics.

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

A seminar by Susanne Bauer, junior professor in sociology of science at Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main. Her main focus in teaching and research is in STS and her work particularly deals with the life sciences, ...

05Mar2015

Presentation report Monitor Muslim Discrimination

16:30 - 18:00 | Event

For the first time, the views of mosque directors on discriminatory aggression against mosques are voiced. The report is the product of a multi-annual monitoring project on the development of discrimination against ...

04Mar2015

The global corporate elite after the financial crisis

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Eelke Heemskerk discusses the impact of the recent financial crisis on the international network of the corporate elite. Has the structure of corporate governance become more national or have transnational networks ...

02Mar2015

Local shocks: the far right in the 2014 European elections

17:00 - 18:30 | Lecture

According to the international media, the European Union was shaken by a “political earthquake” in May 2014. The source of that earthquake was the electoral success of so-called “anti-EU parties” in general, and far ...

26Feb2015

Humanities in the news: Greece and the prospects for a European Spring

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

What are the consequences of the Greek elections for the future of the Eurozone? Which consequences will they have for anti-austerity politics in other parts of Europe? With: Johan Hartle, Sara Murawski, Dimitris ...

24Feb2015

The human problem at the heart of development. Kapuscinski lecture by Jonathan Jansen

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This Kapuscinski lecture and fourth lecture in the series about the future of international ...