Lectures and debates - University of Amsterdam

07May2015

Books that will save your life: an English literary festival 2015

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Seven speakers talk about that one book that has changed their lives and still inspires them now. In this evening celebrating literature you might be persuaded to start devouring their books as well…This 2015 edition ...

Space! A Useless Category for Historical Analysis?

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

How do material environments affect our daily lives? Why do scholars fail to see the significance of the materiality of our daily surroundings? In this lecture Leif Jerram explores the significance of understanding ...

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 ...