Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

06Feb2015

State violence and the ethics of the minority question in Turkey

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Kabir Tambar (Stanford University) analyses how the category of 'minority' has been constitutive of 'the people' in Turkey, distilling those who do not belong to the history and destiny of the nation from those who ...

29Jan2015

Economic integration and solidarity after the Euro crisis: re-aligning facts, principles and politics

15:30 - 18:30 | Lecture

Maurizio Ferrera, advisor to the European Commission and the Italian government, will give the first ACCESS EUROPE Annual Lecture. He will examine the conflict between the logic of 'opening', which drives the ...

26Jan2015

Of city lounges, assembly-prohibitions and musclemen in pink stilettos

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Class, race and gender in productions of space for Rotterdam’s post-industrial future

14Jan2015

Priority or Equality for Possible People?

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Suppose that under conditions of risk, you must make choices that will influence the utility and the identities of the people who will exist—though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to choose? In ...

12Jan2015

How propaganda works

17:00 - 18:45 | Lecture

Jason Stanley (Yale) will discuss a couple of chapters of his forthcoming book 'How Propaganda Works'. The two chapters together give his account of the problems for democracy raised by flawed ideological belief.

11Dec2014

The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Professor Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers Business School) will discuss her 2013 book entitled 'The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism' (New York: Russell Sage Foundation). She will focus on her argument ...

10Dec2014

Critical Theory in the Social Sciences

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) will present her most recent book, The Posthuman. The Posthuman offers a major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman and explores the extent to which a ...

08Dec2014

Racializing Security: Plural Policing and Differentiated Citizenship

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

If protecting citizens and maintaining public order have traditionally been seen as core state functions, what does it mean when the state actively shares this monopoly and encourages "plural policing"?

03Dec2014

In Draghi we trust

12:30 - 14:30 | Lecture

The 2008 global financial crisis came with fears - and, for some, hopes of a new wave of public mobilisation in industrialised countries. Large protests were particularly expected in the epicentre of the crisis, the ...

27Nov2014

Blaming Europe? Voters, Elites and the Media in the European Union

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

In this lecture, Professor Sara Hobolt discusses her recent book, 'Blaming Europe? Responsibility without Accountability in the European Union' (co-authored with James Tilley). Hobolt examines a key component of ...

24Nov2014

Is the EU doomed?

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. Jan Zielonka foresees a strongly integrated Europe, ...

17Nov2014

Crossing borders, changing identities? Travel documents, money and personhood

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

This talk will question what it means to be a citizen as a person and the way the state establishes its relation with its subjects - in particular, how documentation affects processes of kinship.

07Nov2014

The Fable of White Ethnic Harmony and Black/White Opposition: Race in Merchant/Customer Conflict in the US

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Steven Gold (Michigan State University) will explore patterns of conflict in two eras in urban neighborhoods in the US. He will review the historical experience of immigrant entrepreneurs in the American South where ...

31Oct2014

Catching Fire: Assessing Cities, Conflicts, and Diffusion in Québec, Canada

12:00 - 15:00 | Lecture

In this presentation, we discuss urban conflicts that took place in Quebec and Montreal cities for two decades. We show that the modeling of conflict activity offers new paths for research: systematic comparative ...

31Oct2014

Ordinary Imperatives: migration "within" social change

09:00 - 11:00 | Lecture

This lecture explores the accelerated pace of societal transformation intrinsic to twenty-first century mobility through conceptualising its ordinary unfolding. We will focus on how urban societies are diversifying ...

30Oct2014

Security Unbound: Insecurities, Suspicion and Democracy

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

The relation between security and democracy is a defining contemporary political question in Europe. As skepticism about the raft of security measures adopted throughout a decade and a half of proclaimed security ...

08Oct2014

Europe as a ‘greater Holland’. European integration and Dutch politics in the 1950s and 1960s

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Robin de Bruin challenges popular interpretations of the course of Dutch domestic politics in the early days of European integration, building on his recently published monograph ‘The Elastic European Ideal. European ...

07Oct2014

Assessing party-voter congruence over time: towards convergence in times of crisis?

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

ACCESS EUROPE postdoc Katjana Gattermann will present a paper on the (lack of) congruence between voter preferences and party positions in the European context. The recent elections of the European Parliament ...

26Sept2014

Perceptions of “the state” as an enemy and xenophobia in crisis-ridden Athens

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Pratsinakis conducted research in the Amity (Omónia) square area in Athens in which he focused on one housing block in which immigrants of different descent and natives lived close to each other.

17Sept2014

ACCESS EUROPE lunch seminar with Alejandro Portes

12:00 - 13:30 | Lecture

In this lecture, Professor Portes will summarize results of a recently-completed study of a sample of Portuguese national institutions and their bearing on national development.

12Sept2014

Methodological Lessons for the Comparative Study of the Adaptation of Children of Immigrants

09:00 - 11:00 | Lecture

Children of immigrants comprise one-in-five of Americans under age 18 and the proportion is growing rapidly. Portes deals with their adaptation and the forces impinging on it.

09Sept2014

European security policy in the age of drones

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Ana Juncos, ACCESS EUROPE visiting scholar for the theme 'Europe and the World', discusses European security policy in the age of drones.

02July2014

Theorizing blackness and whiteness in historical perspective in the Netherlands

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Forthcoming ir/relevance of race seminar with Dienke Hondius, Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Free University Amsterdam. Abstract will follow

24June2014

Democracy in Greece, from the cradle to the grave?

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Tom de Bruijn, member of the Dutch State Council and Chair of the Advisory Board of ACCESS EUROPE, will give a public lecture on his experiences as special advisor to the Task Force for Greece of the European Commission.

23June2014

The Politicization and Legitimacy of Regional Integration: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Approach

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this presentation, Professor Ruud Koopmans investigates the legitimacy and politicization of regional international organizations from a comparative perspective. Distinguishing performatory (output) and procedural ...

12June2014

Political Science Seminar with Aseem Prakash

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

Professor Prakash studies environmental issues, international political economy, and NGO politics. Much of his work focuses on voluntary environmental programs. He has extended this work to study corporate social ...

05June2014

Making YuRope. The tension between new memoryscapes in Western Balkans and European politics of memory

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Francesco Mazzucchelli, visiting scholar for the ACCESS EUROPE theme 'European Identity and Culture' gives a lecture on Europe's relationship with former Yugoslavia.

03June2014

Knowledge and Authority in European Institutions, or: How Do Diplomats Know What They Know

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Drawing on her recent book, Merje Kuus starts to unpack the production of expert authority in Brussels. Relying empirically on over one hundred interviews with 73 foreign affairs professionals, she disentangles some ...

20May2014

SPUI25 op Locatie: New Perspectives on Muslims in Europe

20:00 - 22:00 | Lecture

John R. Bowen (Washington University), Christophe Bertossi (French Institute of International Relations) and Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam) present their new book "European states and their Muslim ...

20May2014

Political Science Seminar with Mark Warren

17:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

Warren’s current research interests fall within the field of democratic theory. He is especially interested in new forms of citizen participation, new forms of democratic representation, the relationship between ...

14May2014

The evolution of stakeholder involvement in EU regulatory governance: The case of securities regulation in the European Union

16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture

Kutsal Yesilkagit (Utrecht University) will discuss a forthcoming paper, co-authored with Dr. Caelesta Braun of the VU University, on stakeholder involvement in regulatory governance in the EU.

12May2014

"Segmented assimilation theory extended: ‘Revivification’ of ethnic identity among second generation Moroccan and Turkish Dutch social climbers”

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this paper Marieke Slootman identifies a trajectory of immigrant incorporation among ethnic minority social climbers that is characterized by a ‘revivification’ of ethnic identity in early adulthood.

07May2014

Holland sings Dutch. The performance of Dutchness in a popular sing-along culture

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Irene Stengs (Meertens Instituut) will anayse a specific Dutch popular song genre called 'levenslied' (literally ‘song of life’) and the way in which jointly levenslied singing embodies sentiments of Dutchness.

06May2014

The Deadly Life of Logistics: From Military Art to Corporate Science

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

In the field of logistics, the work of militaries and markets has long been heavily entwined. But how did the ‘revolution in logistics’ – arguably the most understudied revolution of the 20th century - transform the ...

22Apr2014

New Governance and the European Union. An Empirical and Conceptual Critique

12:15 - 13:30 | Lecture

In exploring a wide range of developments in EU governance across a variety of policy domains and over many years, Professor Kenneth Armstrong (University of Cambridge) pinpoints the potential contribution of new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

29Nov2012

The underpinnings of HIV- and AIDS-related education in Mozambique: a qualitative inquiry

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

The importance of education in general and HIV- and AIDS-related education in particular in efforts to decrease young people’s vulnerability to HIV has been broadly accepted. As demonstrated by continuing debate ...

22Nov2012

The Rise of the Diasporic Economy: Migration and Contemporary Global Development

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

The diasporic economy is one of the key growth poles in the contemporary world economy in spite of the general downswing in economic activity in key sectors of the world economy due to the current global economic crisis.

16Nov2012

Second Meeting AMCIS Inequality Seminar on 'Corporate Governance and Inequality'

12:00 - 14:00 | Lecture

Attention: Friday in place of Thursday. Location to be announced.

08Oct2012

Beyond groupism?

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

This semester’s second sociology seminar has a special setup. In collaboration with IMES, we are happy to invite you to a discussion with Rogers Brubaker and Bowen Paulle

21Sept2012

John Gray: Myth and Fiction in Contemporary Politics

20:00 - 22:00 | Lecture

During the sixth SPUI25 Lecture, the British political philosopher John Gray will try to expose the elements of myth and fiction in contemporary thought and reflect on how politics and ethics can change so they are ...

20Sept2012

Culture in International Relations

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Prof. Ned Lebow, University of Cambridge, will talk about interstate relations and how these are embedded in culture that determines who counts as an actor, shapes the ends they seek and the ways they interact. Why ...