Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

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 ...