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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

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Inaugural lectures

PhD degree ceremony

Lectures and debates

Conferences and symposia

Inaugural lectures

The limitations of neoclassical economics in international development education

Education for international development as a field of study has been mostly dominated by neoclassical economics and the human capital theory since the early seventies. What is more, during the last decade neoclassical economics has become the unique and hegemonic paradigm to inform policy making in education in developing countries.

Friday 2 March 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

PhD degree ceremony

Corruptie in Indonesië kan sociaal wenselijk zijn

Sinds het aftreden van ex-president Soeharto eind jaren negentig heeft Indonesië structurele stappen genomen om de regering transparanter, democratischer en minder corrupt te maken. Sylvia Tidey onderzocht deze veranderingen en laat zien dat ‘corruptie’ is ingebed in een sociale context waarin relaties en wederzijdse verplichtingen binnen relaties centraal staan.

donderdag 1 maart 2012, 12:00 uur

Lectures and debates

Beyond Galton: J.S. Mill, Charles Darwin and the British 19th-Century Debate over Inherited Differences

This 'Ir/relevance of Race Seminar' presents Professor Diane Paul, visiting scholar in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. Professor Diane Paul argues that the question of the relative importance of innate characteristics and institutional arrangements in explaining human differences was vehemently contested in Britain during the first half of the 19th century.

Wednesday 7 March 2012, 15:00 - 17:00

Managing the fragility of the Eurozone in times

In his lecture, Paul de Grauwe will analyze the nature of the fragility of the Eurozone.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00 - 19:30

Running from our shadows: the performative impact of policy diagnoses in Dutch debates on immigrant integration

During this IMES Podium Rogier van Reekum and Jan Willem Duyvendak examine the performative politics of claiming policy failure in the integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, often articulated as the failure of ‘the multiculturalist model’.

Thursday 29 March 2012, 15:30 - 17:00

Conferences and symposia

PhD-seminar Neoliberalism, Precarity, Exclusion

The seminar will explore the politics and lived realities of global neoliberalism, focusing on the interplay of class and race, migration and work, the regulation of inequality and the politics of seclusion.

Thursday 15 March - Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Conference – Reinventing Norbert Elias: for an open sociology

This conference aims to investigate the relevance of the figurational or ‘process sociology’ of Norbert Elias for current sociological theory and research.The organising committee consists of social scientists from several Dutch universities and a renowned Australian expert.

Friday 22 June - Saturday, 23 June 2012

Medical Anthropology at Home Conference VII

The 7th biennial conference of the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) network, gathering medical anthropologists working in their own societies, will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

Friday 22 June, 16:00 - Sunday, 24 June 2012, 14:00

IMISCOE Annual Conference 2012

The Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) will be the host of the ninth annual IMISCOE Conference. Under the title 'Mobility as the new paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences?', the conference plenary sessions aim to foster a dialogue across academic disciplines on the implications of this development for social scientific investigations in terms of research design and data analysis.

Tuesday 28 August - Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Events

Author Meets Critics Panel: 'Speculative Security', by Marieke de Goede

Discussion panel on 'Speculative Security' in which Marieke de Goede describes how previously unscrutinized practices such as donations and remittances have been affected by security measures that include datamining, asset freezing, and transnational regulation.

zaterdag 25 februari 2012, 12:40 - 14:20 uur

For Staff AISSR

Information for the staff of the AISSR

IDS Lecture Series

This years topic is Social Justice and Development. Go to the website including literature and online lectures (Open Access).

Seminar Series: Ir/relevance of Race in Science and Society

The relevance and irrelevance of race as an object and concept of research in order to explore ways to talk about race without naturalizing differences.