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 ...