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Events related to the discipline Political Science
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29Apr2015
Read moreClose 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 ...
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28Apr2015
Read moreResponsive 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 ...
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14Apr2015
Read moreRecent 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 ...
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08Apr2015
Read moreEqual 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 ...
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08Apr2015
Read moreAthena 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 ...
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08Apr2015
Read moreThe 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 ...
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08Apr2015
Read morePeers, 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 ...
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09Mar2015
Read moreThe 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, ...
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04Mar2015
Read moreThe 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 ...
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02Mar2015
Read moreLocal 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 ...
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06Feb2015
Read moreState 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 ...
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29Jan2015
Read moreEconomic 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 ...
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26Jan2015
Read moreOf 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
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14Jan2015
Read morePriority 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 ...
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12Jan2015
Read moreHow 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.
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11Dec2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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10Dec2014
Read moreCritical 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 ...
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08Dec2014
Read moreRacializing 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"?
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03Dec2014
Read moreIn 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 ...
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27Nov2014
Read moreBlaming 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 ...
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24Nov2014
Read moreIs 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, ...
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17Nov2014
Read moreCrossing 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.
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07Nov2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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31Oct2014
Read moreCatching 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 ...
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31Oct2014
Read moreOrdinary 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 ...
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30Oct2014
Read moreSecurity 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 ...
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08Oct2014
Read moreEurope 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 ...
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07Oct2014
Read moreAssessing 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 ...
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26Sept2014
Read morePerceptions 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.
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17Sept2014
Read moreACCESS 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.
