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Events related to the discipline Political Science
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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.
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12Sept2014
Read moreMethodological 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.
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09Sept2014
Read moreEuropean 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.
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02July2014Read more
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
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24June2014
Read moreDemocracy 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.
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23June2014
Read moreThe 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 ...
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12June2014
Read morePolitical 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 ...
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05June2014
Read moreMaking 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.
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03June2014
Read moreKnowledge 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 ...
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20May2014
Read moreSPUI25 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 ...
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20May2014
Read morePolitical 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 ...