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New series of AMCIS Seminars

13 Sept 2017

In fall 2017, AMCIS will organize a seminar series with international scholars who work on various topics related to inequality. The presenters will talk about a recent (empirical) research project that they are ...
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Social Scientists and artists worked together to create the comic Beauty

28 July 2017

Imagine a corporate group working hard for setting the next trends for the modelling industry, add a group of angry, anti-system students who have decided to change the way the industry is oppressing us with beauty ...
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Seventeen UvA and AMC-UvA researchers awarded Veni grants

28 July 2017

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants worth up to €250,000 to 17 UvA and AMC-UvA researchers who recently obtained their doctorate. The grants give promising young ...
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New project: Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage

30 June 2017

A research consortium led by Thomas Leopold, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and member of the AISSR programme group Institutions, Inequalities, and Life Courses, has been awarded € ...
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How lone wolves operate

29 June 2017

Acts of terror by so-called lone-wolf terrorists have reached an all-time high in the United States. Yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the motivations behind them. In The Age of Lone ...
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New Article by Jan Rath Explores the Idiosyncracy of Amsterdam's Chinatown

30 May 2017

In "Chinatown 2.0: The Difficult Flowering of an Ethnically Themed Shopping Area", Jan Rath et al. challenge orthodox perspectives on 'ethnic enclaves', approaching Amsterdam’s Chinatown as a themed economic space ...
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Vidi grant awarded to nine UvA and AMC-UvA researchers

30 May 2017

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros to nine researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Academic Medical Center (AMC). The grant will enable ...
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Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging

19 May 2017

When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, ...
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ICS PhD Scholarschips for highly qualified graduates

4 Apr 2017

The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) offers fully funded PhD scholarships for a variety of projects.
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Academic freedom: the Central European University (CEU)

30 Mar 2017

One of the top universities in central and eastern Europe, the Central European University (CEU), may be forced out of Hungary under a draft law being prepared by the Hungarian government.
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New on the Social Science YouTube channel: Barak Kalir presents the work of Hannah Arendt

24 Mar 2017

At a time when the world takes a sharp turn to the right, and as millions of people escape their state in search of refuge in Europe and elsewhere, revisiting the work of Hannah Arendt could hardly be more timely for ...
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UvA Social Sciences in top 50 QS World University Ranking by Subject

9 Mar 2017

The Social Sciences as listed in the top 50 of the QS Ranking: Sociology in 14th place (same as in 2016), Anthropology 14th (was 15), Geography 16th (was 14), Social Policy & Administration 32nd (was 29), Politics & ...
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Communication & Media Studies at UvA 2nd worldwide in QS Ranking

8 Mar 2017

The UvA has surged to 2nd place amongst universities worldwide in Communication & Media Studies, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject published on Wednesday, 8 March 2017. Last year, the UvA ...
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David Amodio, professor of Social Psychology

2 Mar 2017

Dr D.M. Amodio (1974) has been appointed professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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Institutions, Inequalities and Life Courses joins national research network ICS

1 Mar 2017

As of 1 January 2017, the Institutions, Inequalities and Life Courses (IIL) programme group of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) has joined national research network the Interuniversity ...
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New videos on social science research online

17 Feb 2017

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) published twelve short videos in which researchers present latest research results within the themes of Security Practices, Gender & Sexuality and Research ...
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Thirteen researchers to visit UvA with Marie Curie Fellowship

7 Feb 2017

Thirteen promising researchers have received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The projects focus, among other things, on the formation of ...
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ISOTIS - Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society

26 Jan 2017

Herman van de Werfhorst and Jesper Rözer of the Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses group (Sociology) of the University of Amsterdam start to collaborate on the ISOTIS project. ISOTIS is funded as a Horizon ...
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Great Thinkers on YouTube-Nicky Pouw presenting the work of Amartya Kumar Sen

23 Jan 2017

Dr Nicky Pouw presents the work of Amartya Kumar Sen (1933-), Indian philosopher and economist and Nobel Prize winner for his theoretical contributions to the ethics of economics and his life-long work on poverty and ...
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First Great Thinkers on YouTube-Geoffrey Underhill presenting Adam Smith

24 Nov 2016

Professor Geoffrey Underhill presented the work of Adam Smith (1723 -1790), Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy and key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Not only did Underhill explore the ...
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