Archive - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

30Apr2015

Eurocommissioner Moedas and State Secretary Dekker at Room for Discussion

13:30 - 14:30 | Debate

For the second time in three weeks, the Roeterseiland campus will host a Eurocommissioner. On 14 April, ACCESS EUROPE welcomed Jyrki Katainen for a discussion with about Europe's future, on 30 April Carlos Moedas, ...

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 ...

29Apr2015

Close to a Brexit?

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

With the upcoming general elections in the UK, the possibility of a Brexit (shorthand for British exit from the European Union) is widely debated again. Sir Colin Budd, former member of the UK Diplomatic Service, ...

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

The future of international development studies: final debate

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. Global trends indicate rising inequality and degrading ecosystems. Extrapolated into the ...

14Apr2015

Screening Politics: Syriana

20:00 | Event

Brian Burgoon will introduce and discuss this film that tells the story of the transnational politics of US foreign policy and practice in the Middle East. That story turns out to be one where many familiar forces of ...

14Apr2015

On the future of Europe - with European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen

16:00 - 17:00 | Debate

European Commissioner Jyrki Katainen will speak at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, as a guest of ACCESS EUROPE. Mr. Katainen will briefly introduce the Investment Plan of the Juncker administration ...

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 ...

02Apr2015

Sustainable fashion design: new approaches

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

News about the rapidity, ruthlessness and maleficence of the fashion industry has been widespread. How can we make the fashion industry more sustainable? Finnish researcher Kirsi Niinimäki edited ‘Sustainable ...

01Apr2015

Collective memory after the nation-state

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

Globalization, migration and the internet are changing the ways in which people fashion their identities. How can we rethink collective memory, heritage and museums to fit these changes? With: Marie-Aude Baronian, ...

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, ...

05Mar2015

Presentation report Monitor Muslim Discrimination

16:30 - 18:00 | Event

For the first time, the views of mosque directors on discriminatory aggression against mosques are voiced. The report is the product of a multi-annual monitoring project on the development of discrimination against ...

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 ...

26Feb2015

Humanities in the news: Greece and the prospects for a European Spring

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

What are the consequences of the Greek elections for the future of the Eurozone? Which consequences will they have for anti-austerity politics in other parts of Europe? With: Johan Hartle, Sara Murawski, Dimitris ...

24Feb2015

The human problem at the heart of development. Kapuscinski lecture by Jonathan Jansen

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This Kapuscinski lecture and fourth lecture in the series about the future of international ...

23Feb2015

Yoga, Bingo and Prayer in Urban Renewal Areas

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

Linda van de Kamp reflects on her new research project that starts with the observation that the way people relate to and imagine urban spaces, and thus how people influence the development of urban areas, results ...

17Feb2015

Public policy: new approach, new solutions

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

When we think about public policy, two narratives seem persistent: that of market fundamentalism and government control. These approaches however seem to restrict the creativity of policy makers. Roland Kupers puts ...

16Feb2015

Choose your Master's in Social Sciences on 16 February (UvA Master's Week)

18:30 - 21:30 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 16 February during the UvA Master's Week to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

12Feb2015 13Feb2015

Jerusalem - a city disunited

20:30 | Symposium

In this symposium we will discuss the often unseen or hidden aspects of the current political and social situation in Jerusalem, such as human rights issues, settlements, and urban planning. We will also look at the ...

10Feb2015

Humanities in the news: Europe after Charlie Hebdo

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Researchers Marieke de Goede, Francesco Ragazzi, Jolle Demmers, Mark Deuze and Julien Jeandesboz discuss civil liberties, Islamophobia and the temptation of vigilantism in Europe in the aftermath of the attack on ...

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 ...

27Jan2015

National experience with war influences post-war grant strategies

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Paul van Hooft investigates how national experiences with war shape post-war grand strategies, and specifically how the experiences with victory and defeat in the Second World War shaped the post-war beliefs and ...

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

19Jan2015 20Jan2015

Security at Large: Violent Exchanges and Citizenship beyond the State

09:30 | Conference

In cities across the world, security has become one of the most prominent concerns in people’s everyday lives. In an increasingly pluralized landscape of security, people rely on a broad range of security providers. ...

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.

09Jan2015 16Jan2015

Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Workshop

This intensive workshop on negotiation and conflict resolution combines skill building with the developing of a command of analytic theory in a ‘hands-on’ format. It follows what is sometimes referred to as the ...

20Dec2014

Hands off our girls - Social Sciences supports Serious Request

11:00 - 15:00 | Symposium

Sexual violence against women is the featuring topic of this symposium organised by the Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. It is a benefit symposium, which means that all visitors can make a voluntary ...

17Dec2014

‘China’s Continuing Urban Transformation’ with George Lin

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This second lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will ...

12Dec2014

AISSR Annual Harvest Day-inaugural edition

10:45 - 18:00 | Event

The Harvest Day showcases new research results selected from different AISSR programme groups but focused on a shared research theme. This year’s themes are: (1) Migration; (2) Conflict and Post-conflict life; and ...

11Dec2014

Crisis in the EU’s neighbourhood: Who lost Ukraine?

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

The March 2014 annexation of Crimea has raised tensions between the 'West' and Russia, with the EU having to play a key role in the situation. Did the EU adopt the right strategies? With: Ulrich Schneckener, Aaron ...

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"?

04Dec2014 05Dec2014

Justice in Migration. New Issues and Perspectives.

Event

This event will present a keynote by David Miller of Oxford University and bring together a small group of European scholars working on questions relating to the ethics of immigration, such as the ethics of ...

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

Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System

17:30 - 19:30 | Exhibition

Darshan will deliver an audio-visual reprise of the book’s central idea: that ‘mental maps' shape the way that societies throughout history have determined who belongs where. This promises to be an intimate and ...

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, ...

21Nov2014

Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation on International Security

12:00 - 14:00 | Debate

Although international security is often considered a domain of the executive, parliaments have been playing an active role in Western security politics.

21Nov2014

The moral limits of the internal market

09:00 - 18:00 | Conference

A conference organised by Marija Bartl, Ulad Belavusau, Gareth Davies, Martijn Hesselink, Clemens Kaupa, Lyn Tjon Soei Len of the "European Constitutionalism" theme of ACCESS EUROPE.

20Nov2014

Researching and publishing political economy in the age of Twitter, TED talks and external grant dependence

16:00 - 18:00 | Event

In April 2014, the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) has formally moved from McGill University in Canada to the University of Amsterdam. We embrace this occasion not only to toast and welcome the ...

19Nov2014

‘Sustainability and inclusive development' with Joyeeta Gupta

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This second lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will ...

19Nov2014

Public Mediation Programme (PMP) at the UvA-grand opening

15:30 - 17:30 | Event

PMP is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Political Science at the UvA under the ‘wings’ of Alexander Rinnooy Kan, University Professor. The programme seeks to develop the practice and ...

18Nov2014

Cultural Encounters: Sweden and the Netherlands

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

As part of the 400 years jubilee of diplomatic relations between Sweden and the Netherlands, we turn to Swedish-Dutch cultural encounters. How do Swedish artists experience working in a Dutch environment? Composer ...

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.

17Nov2014 18Nov2014

The Social Question in a Global Perspective

09:00 | Conference

Researchers from India, Brasil, Africa, Hungary, the Netherlands and other countries will rethink the concept of the working class and the ways in which it can further its interests. Traditional forms of collective ...

13Nov2014

Human Rights: What’s Your Argument? Part 3: How to defend human rights with limited freedom of expression?

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

In many places today civil society and human rights defenders are facing more and more challenges and restrictions. How can we explain this development? What can we do about it? How is the internet a part of this: ...

13Nov2014 14Nov2014

The European Union and the Arab Spring: Constructions of Security in the Southern Mediterranean

Workshop

ACCESS EUROPE organises a two-day workshop on The European Union and the Arab Spring: Constructions of Security in the Southern Mediterranean. This workshop is organised by the ‘Europe in the World’ research theme.

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 ...

05Nov2014

Moving Traditions - the story of Zwarte Piet

17:00 - 21:30 | Symposium

Zwarte Piet is a much beloved but controversial Dutch tradition. Visit this symposium on 5 November for a dialogue among academics and artists and a reflection on the current debate.

05Nov2014

Piketty in the Netherlands: economic inequality and its consequences

15:30 - 17:30 | Symposium

At the same time that Thomas Piketty is visiting the Dutch Parliament, AMCIS organizes a mini-symposium to contextualize his book 'Capital in the 21st Century' to the Netherlands, and to discuss possible consequences ...

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 ...

30Oct2014 31Oct2014

Multilevel Democracy

12:00 | Workshop

The Treaty of Lisbon (Art. 8A.2) recognizes that the functioning of the European Union is based on two channels of democratic representation: directly through the European Parliament and indirectly through the ...

29Oct2014

SPUI25 on location: 'How can we end extreme poverty?' with Shanta Devarajan

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This first lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will be ...

10Oct2014

What's in a label? Understanding the EU in constitutional, executive, and/or administrative terms

13:30 - 17:00 | Debate

A discussion of the nature of integration, and the nature of its legitimacy, with Peter Lindseth (University of Connecticut Law School/Tilburg Law School) Chris Lord (ARENA, University of Oslo) Leonard Besselink ...

09Oct2014

Mobilizing for migrant rights in the 21st century. Comparative perspectives on migrant organizing, labor and citizenship between Europe and the United States

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

This roundtable with key note speaker Prof. Ruth Milkman (CUNY) focuses on migrant rights mobilizations and migrant organizing across Europe and the U.S. In a time of restrictive migration policies, increasing ...

09Oct2014

Methodological approaches to legitimacy in EU legal research

14:00 - 16:00 | Workshop

Peter Lindseth, author of Power and Legitimacy. Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP, 2010) will discuss the participants’ individual research projects focusing on methodological approaches to legitimacy in ...

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.

18Sept2014

Global Challenges and European Politics: New Wines in Old Bottles?

17:00 - 19:15 | Event

Europe is facing a wide range of external challenges, from climate change to energy dependency to the rising multipolar world. This autumn a new European Commission will be inaugurated and successors of Herman van ...

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.

11Sept2014

Gujarat Research Network Seminar

09:00 - 20:30 | Symposium

The purpose of the seminar is an academic exchange between emerging and established scholars doing research on Gujarat, in various institutes in Europe.

10Sept2014 12Sept2014

Security on the Move

Event

The SECURCIT research group, in cooperation with gate48 and De Balie, is organizing a series of events on security mobilities, with a film screening on the Israeli military occupation in Palestine and a public ...

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.

04Sept2014 05Sept2014

Representing Catastrophe

10:00 | Workshop

Representatives from academic, NGO and charity sectors will jointly discuss disaster mediatization and consumption and how these can enhance and undermine community resources for dealing with disasters. With its ...

03Sept2014

Victus, the fall of Barcelona and European history

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

The War of the Spanish Succession, theme of Albert Sánchez Piñols historical novel Victus, was one of the first of the world struggles. Amongst major European power shifts, Catalonia lost its independence. As there ...

22Aug2014 23Aug2014

Experimentalist Regimes in Transnational Governance: The European Union and Beyond

09:00 | Conference

This conference, organized by Jonathan Zeitlin (University of Amsterdam) and Charles Sabel (Columbia University Law School), involving an international working group of scholars from multiple disciplines, focuses on ...

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

25June2014

Demonization of political parties in the Netherlands

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Sjoerdje van Heerden explores the demonization of political parties in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2011. After thoroughly conceptualizing the term ‘demonization’, Van Heerden goes on to analyze the effects of ...

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 ...

19June2014 20June2014

Up to the mainstream? Radical right parties in Western Europe, 2000-2013

13:30 | Workshop

The radical right party family has gone through various transitions during the past three decades. The adaptation of an anti-immigration master-frame and electoral successes opened up an escape from the political ...

13June2014

An analytical framework for political legitimacy

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Not only scholars, but also politicians, journalists and citizens are interested in the concept of political legitimacy. Beno Netelenbos analyses how political legitimacy can be understood and researched, and shows ...

13June2014

Foreign Policy and Ethnography: Researching European Expertise (2)

12:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the methods and challenges of doing fieldwork in foreign policy settings. Special guest is Merje Kuus from the University of British Columbia, visiting professor at ACCESS ...

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.

04June2014

Foreign Policy and Ethnography: Researching European Expertise (1)

12:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the methods and challenges of doing fieldwork in foreign policy settings. Special guest is Merje Kuus from the University of British Columbia, visiting professor at ACCESS ...

04June2014 07June2014

Objects in/of Migration

Event

This exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum draws together artists, musicians, actors and creative writers to explore the experience of serial migration. 6 June a live performance and reception will take place for ...

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 ...

26May2014

European Elections: the Day After

20:00 - 22:00 | Debate

A panel consisting of Ewald Engelen (UvA), Sarah de Lange (UvA), Ben Crum (VU) and Katjana Gattermann (ACCESS EUROPE postdoc), moderated by Mark Beunderman (NRC Handelsblad), will analyse and discuss the ...

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 ...

28Apr2014

The First European Presidential Debate

18:30 - 22:00 | Debate

ACCESS EUROPE and Machiavelli organise the Amsterdam live-stream of the first debate of the candidates for the presidency of the European Commission who will battle out key issues on the future of Europe. The debate ...

23Apr2014

Patterns of issue competition in complex multiparty systems

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Why did the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima lead to significant politicisation of the issue of nuclear energy in Germany, but hardly elicit any political attention in France? Why did immigration become one of ...

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 ...

15Apr2014

IMES PODIUM: Comparative Immigration and America’s Racial Legacy

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

Professor Nancy Foner (City University of New York) will address how America’s history of slavery, segregation, and the civil rights movement -and the very presence of a large African American population - has ...

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 ...

11Apr2014

The European Semester and the New Architecture of EU Socio-Economic Governance

Workshop

The European Semester constitutes an important development in the architecture of EU socio-economic policy guidance and surveillance. It has given the EU institutions a more prominent and intrusive role than ever ...

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 ...

07Apr2014

Jens Weidmann and Klaas Knot on the financial future of Europe

12:30 | Event

Jens Weidmann, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, is visiting Amsterdam at the invitation of the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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 ...

05Mar2014

Positionings feminists Belgrade and Zagreb

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Ana Miškovska Kajevska explores the positionings – discourses and activities – of the Belgrade and Zagreb feminists vis-à-vis the (post-) Yugoslav wars and one another in the period between 1991 and 2000. Miškovska ...

21Feb2014

The liberalisation of television systems in Western Europe

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the television sector in Western Europe was liberalised. Bouchra Arbaoui investigates the aggregate level changes in television systems after the large-scale introduction of ...

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 ...

17Feb2014

KennisCafé: De seksparadox

20:00 - 00:00 | Event

Sinds de seksuele revolutie staat seks op de politieke en sociale agenda en is het nauw verbonden met emancipatie van vrouwen en (seksuele) minderheden. Het staat voor vooruitgang!

15Feb2014

UvA Master's Day - 15 February

10:00 - 15:30 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 15 February to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

13Feb2014

Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

16:00 | Event

Lars-Erik Cederman ( ETH Zurich ) and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ( Essex, UK) will present their recent book in which they argue that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that ...

07Feb2014

Urban Governance and the End of Civil Society: Community Organizations in the Rust Belt from Populism to Foreclosure

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

Michael McQuarrie will present his paper that demonstrates how civil society is transformed as it becomes incorporated into urban governance.

06Feb2014

The European Union in the World: a research dialogue

18:00 - 20:00 | Debate

Does the EU exercise its normative power ‘successfully’? Is the EU a successful and powerful negotiator on the international scene? As an emergent actor on the international scene, how does the EU come to terms with ...

31Jan2014

Multiculturalism Permitted in English Only

10:00 - 12:00 | Event

Donaldo Macedo is a Cape Verdean-American critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy and education studies.

22Jan2014 23Jan2014

Inaugural Event ACCESS EUROPE: Europe in Crisis – Resilient Europe

15:00 | Event

The Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European StudieS (ACCESS EUROPE), an initiative of the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will kick off on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 January with ...

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 ...

16Jan2014

AMCIS Celebration: Four Years Ahead

13:00 - 20:00 | Event

For this event we invite you for a mini‐symposium organized around research conducted at AMCIS presented by AMCIS postdocs from Sociology, Educational Science and Political Science, complemented by a keynote lecture ...

15Jan2014

EU-US Relations after Snowden: Data, Democracy, Security

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

The so-called PRISM affair calls into question the capacity of the European Union to protect citizens and residents against the intelligence activities of third countries and its own Member States. This roundtable ...

10Jan2014 17Jan2014

Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Workshop

This intensive workshop on negotiation and conflict resolution combines skill building with the development of analytic skills in a ‘hands-on’ format following what is sometimes called the ‘Harvard method’ of ...

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 ...

22Nov2013

Futures of Forensics in Europe

13:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

With this event we will celebrate the launch of the European Network for the Social Studies of Forensics (EUnetSSF).

14Nov2013

Official opening of the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) at the University of Amsterdam.

16:00 - 18:30 | Event

You are cordially invited to attend the opening Official opening of the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) at the University of Amsterdam. This opening will take place on Thursday, November 14th in ...

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.

31Oct2013

GSSS Open Day on 31 October

18:00 - 22:00 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on 31 October (18:00-22:00) to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

31Oct2013

Renewing Democracy

14:00 - 17:15 | Symposium

Researchers and practitioners will join to discuss the future of democracy and will address democratic innovation and social change in Europe. The relation between top down government actions and bottom-up ...

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

25Sept2013

Democratisation process difficult to predict in authoritarian regime

16:00 | Inaugural lecture

In a multitude of ways all over the world, citizens are increasingly demanding that political leaders be held accountable for their actions, as was the case in the Arab Spring. During her inaugural lecture, Marlies ...

03Sept2013

The European fight against terrorism financing

12:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Mara Wesseling explores the way in which the European fight against terrorism financing is shaped, as well as the results of the adopted measures. Special attention is paid to the use of massive databases containing ...

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.

25June2013 27June2013

Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability

Conference

The conference program features the world's leading authorities on Europe. The conference is organised by the Council for European Studies (CES).

24June2013

Round table on Forced Migration

18:00 - 20:00 | Debate

Refugees, asylum-seekers and other people whose very mobility has been forced upon them have been a growing category of mobile population in the twentieth century and the focus of social policies and political ...

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 ...

06June2013

Mr Prof. dr. B.M. Burgoon

16:00 | Inaugural lecture

Mr Prof. dr. B.M. Burgoon, Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy: 'Political Economy of Re-embedding Liberalism'.

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.

04June2013

IMES Podium: Mobility, Territory, State

15:30 - 17:00 | Debate

International migration between developing and developed worlds has peaked and will gradually taper off over the coming decades. By way of contrast, short-distance migration in regions like sub-Saharan Africa - to ...

22Apr2013

Recognizing Migrant Emplacement: Researching Without an Ethnic Lens

15:00 - 17:00 | Debate

This presentation contributes to the current efforts to develop a scholarship that does not rely on an ethnic lens to study migrant practices, socialities and identities.

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 ...

21Mar2013

Established political parties not more populist

10:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Established political parties have not become more populist. Moreover, after their election successes populist parties have just become less populist. This is the finding of Matthijs Rooduijn.

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 ...

06Mar2013

Creating a European Banking Union: The First Steps to Where

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

As a preeminent expert in the field of financial markets and supervision, Eilís Ferran will disentangle for us the economic, political and legal dimensions, opportunities and threats of the banking union.

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.

02Mar2013

Master's Day Graduate School of Social Sciences

09:00 - 17:00 | Information event

Have you chosen your Master's programme yet? Join us on Saturday, 2 March 2013 to find out which programmes of the Graduate School of Social Sciences best match your skills and interests.

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

08Jan2013

UvA celebrates 381st Dies Natalis

15:00 - 16:45 | Event

The 381st Dies Natalis (anniversary) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will take place on Tuesday, 8 January 2013. Prof. A.P. Hardon, professor of Anthropology of Health and Social Care will give the Dies lecture.

19Dec2012

Is Left/Right Still the ‘Super Glue’? The Role of Left/Right Ideology and Issues in Electoral Politics in Western and East Central Europe

14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Agnieszka Walczak will defende her thesis on left/right ideology and voting behaviour.

14Dec2012

Elias Canetti as guiding author

14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Bart Hageraats studied the life and work of the Bulgarian-Swiss author Elias Canetti (1905-1994). His research focus is on topics relating to mass, Verwandlung, Chinese texts and philosophy.

13Dec2012 14Dec2012

Cedla-NALACS International Conference

Conference

This two-day conference will address resource use in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since the start of the 21st Century, the region has been transformed by a complex interaction between market forces, government ...

12Dec2012

Whatever happened 2 Racism in the Netherlands?

19:00 - 00:30 | Conference

Explicit talk about racial differences is conspicuously absent in in the public debate in The Netherlands. The question is: what happened to racism in the Netherlands?

12Dec2012 14Dec2012

Culturalization of Citizenship: On Racism, Populism and Authenticity

Conference

How does the culturalization of Dutch citizenship manifest itself, both at the national and local level? How do native-born Dutch and migrants experience this culturalization? And how different is the Dutch case from ...

11Dec2012

Remote controlled warfare: drones and the (un)making of accountability

15:00 - 17:00 | Debate

The aim of this seminar is to explore the implications of practices of remote controlled warfare in the making and unmaking of public accountability. Because of the remoteness it introduces into the practice of ...

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 ...

28Nov2012

Urban Encounters, Public Institutions and the New Europe

19:30 - 22:00 | Event

A new Europe is taking shape, but judging from debates in various quarters, we can hardly speak of common understandings of what form this renewal is taking.

23Nov2012

Career Event Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS)

13:00 - 18:00 | Information event

How can you distinguish yourself from your peers? Networking is now more important than ever before. This will therefore be the focus of the GSSS Career Event, to make sure that you are One Step ahead in Times of ...

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.

07Nov2012

Election Breakfast USA

07:30 | Event

Who will win the upcoming American elections: Obama or Romney?On Wednesday 7 November at approximately 07:30, the next American president for the coming four years will 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

01Oct2012 03Oct2012

AISSR Short intensive course on Globalization, Crisis and Insecurity

09:00 | Course

This short intenstive course is aimed at PhD Candidates. With guest speakers Susana Narotzky, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Niko Besnier and Sébastien Chauvin.

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 ...

10Nov2010

Perspectives on European Security Culture

13:00 - 15:30 | Conference

This event is organized and sponsored by the NWO-Vidi project ‘European Security Culture' at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and the MA programme ‘EU in a Global Order' at the Department of ...