Agenda - Political Science - University of Amsterdam

08May2015

Symposium on the scholarly work of the late Uwe Becker

14:00 - 17:30 | Event

This symposium honours the lifelong contribution of one of our most notable colleagues in the research field of contemporary political economy. Uwe Becker was a highly recognised international scholar across the ...

08May2015

Language policy, language rights, and language restorative justice

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

Prof. Joseph Lo Bianco (University of Melbourne) discusses the experience of language, social cohesion and peace building through an applied language planning project in three conflict zones in South East Asia: ...

11May2015

Partisanship as a political identity

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

The point of departure is the oft-asserted notion that there is a normative-empirical gap in the study of political parties. Or, to put it differently, political scientists’ post-war fascination with political ...

13May2015

Populist Parties in Europe

15:30 - 17:30 | Event

This book panel, consisting of Prof. Sarah de Lange, Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn and Dr. Andrej Zaslove, focuses on the book Populist Parties in Europe by Dr. Stijn van Kessel.

19May2015

Competing Euro Stories

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

Today in the wake of the euro-crisis the European Union appears to be pulled in different directions simultaneously: towards greater integration in the Euro-zone, and towards greater disintegration through states ...

21May2015 22May2015

Regulating risks in the European Union

Workshop

The EU faces unprecedented challenges in the field of environmental and public health protection. However, the expert-based regulation model legitimizing the exercise of EU regulatory power has come under attack and ...

21May2015

Experiencing European Integration

16:30 - 18:00 | Event

European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. Scandinavians spending their retirement at the Mediterranean coast; Germans employing a Polish ...

22May2015

The Signature of Power - with Mitchell Dean

12:00 - 14:00 | Symposium

The Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law and the European Constitutionalism Theme of ACCESS EUROPE co-organise this lunch seminar and welcome a leading Foucauldian sociologist, Mitchell Dean.

03June2015

Bounded communities of solidarity: union membership and support for redistribution

13:00 - 14:15 | Lecture

Jonas Pontusson (Université de Genève) argues that the literature on individual preferences for redistribution ought to pay more attention to social networks and intermediary organizations. Using European Social ...

03June2015

The beginning of China's ethnicity challenge-Wertheim Lecture

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

China is quietly changing its ethnicity policy. The current Regional Nationality Autonomy paradigm is criticized for risking consolidating ethnic groups into nations, and an assimilationist approach is increasingly ...

03June2015

Bad Neighbourhoods: Europe’s crisis and the challenges of its peripheries

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Europe is confronted with a dual crisis: an internal and an external one. The internal crisis of the European project is mainly related to that of the euro and more generally to the divisive effects of the economic ...

04June2015 05June2015

The Political Theory of European Integration

09:00 | Workshop

Political theorists have been quite slow to engage with European integration. Of course, there is the continuing debate on the EU’s democratic deficit, but notably it is more often used as a background for empirical ...

04June2015

A comparative approach to family migration: interactions, interchanges, and flows

15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Family migration is among the most salient and most controversially debated issues on European migration policy agendas today. ‘The’ migrant family has become the focal point of a wide range of concerns and fears ...

16June2015

Which European Union? Europe after the Euro crisis

Lecture

In his recent book Which European Union? Europe After the Euro Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than ...