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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

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PhD degree ceremony

Lectures and debates

Conferences and symposia

PhD degree ceremony

Station area developments in Tokyo and what the Randstad can learn from it

This research by Paul Chorus is about identifying the driving forces behind station area development projects in Tokyo and their implementation, if possible, in the Randstad.

Friday 25 May 2012, 10:00 - 11:30

Club Model Politics and Global Financial Governance: The Case of the Group of Thirty

Eleni Tsingou studied transnational elites in global finance: how elites interact with institutions, and how institutions and elites relate to the broader social structures in which their roles are performed.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 14:00

Shaping Spaces in Post Industrial Mumbai: Urban regimes planning, instruments and splintering communities

Navtej Nainan analysed how the state intervenes in urban development and what the effects are on different sections of the urban population. She specifically looked at the question to what extent and whether engaging non-state actors in urban development could solve the problems of delivering amenities to all residents of Mumbai.

Friday 1 June 2012, 10:00

Jungle Passports and Metal Fences - Living on the border between Northeast India and Bangladesh

Malini Sur will defend her PhD Thesis entitled: Jungle Passports and Metal Fences - Living on the border between Northeast India and Bangladesh.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 12:00

Lectures and debates

Mijn idee voor Nederland

Waar gaat onze huidige bestuurselite de mist in? Wat is het grootste probleem van ons land en hoe gaan we dat oplossen? In ‘Mijn idee voor Nederland’ gaat De Balie op zoek naar antwoorden. In deze aflevering zal Meindert Fennema zijn visie op de toekomst van Nederland presenteren.

donderdag 24 mei 2012, 20:00 uur

Qualification in Practice Seminar

With Sanneke Kloppenburg, Joe Deville, Oliver Human and
Giselinde Kuipers.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 14:00 - 17:15

Envisioning Real Utopias: alternatives within and beyond capitalism.

Prof. Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin and President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), will present his latest book: ‘Envisioning Real Utopias’ (Verso, 2010). With this book he aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 17:00

Fission and Fusion: Nativism, race, and memory politics in the Netherlands

In this presentation, Markus Balkenhol (Meertens Instituut, Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam) will argue that race as a politics of belonging, rather than being replaced by 'culture', continues to be operative as a marker of difference.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 15:00 - 17:00

Go with Your Gut: Emotion in Employer Hiring

Dr. Lauren Rivera, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, will provide a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms to analyze how employers’ emotional responses to job candidates in job interviews affect hiring processes.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 15:30 - 17:00

Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: Learning from Egypt

Associate Professor Linda Herrera (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) probes how Egyptian youth have been learning citizenship, forming a generational consciousness and doing politics in the digital era.

Tuesday 5 June 2012, 11:00 - 13:00

Wertheimlecture 2012: Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe

Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe (University of Leiden) will give this years Wertheim Lecture. Every year a public lecture named after Wim Wertheim, the founding father of Non-Western Sociology in Amsterdam, is delivered by a renowned scholar working on Asia.

Wednesday 6 June 2012, 15:30 - 17:00

Post-Fordist Affect

In this talk Andrea Muehlebach (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto) argues that Fordism is less helpfully thought of as an past era than a locus for nostalgic yearnings that crucially intervene in and structure the present.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:00 - 18:00

Upcoming lecture: Is there a South perspective in assessing cities and urban growth?

As urban theory engages with global urban experiences, it has become caught by tensions. Has urban theory rarefied the idea that theories representing the urban experience can be universalised and conceptualised as being part of a ‘singular grid’? In this presentation, Sujata Patel discusses these two tensions and argues that the post colonial perspective has relevance given the fact that academic dependencies continue to organise global production and reproduction of knowledge.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:00 - 17:00

Conferences and symposia

Thinking Feelings

‘Thinking Feelings’ is an effort to reflect on and connect the various efforts - from the sociology of emotions and affect to the anthropology of aesthetics - to take affects, emotions and the senses seriously in the social analysis of the deeply troubling shifts in how humans perceive themselves, others and the world at large.

Monday 11 June, 9:30 - Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 17:00

Human Mobility and Borders. IMES Seminar

European nation states impose all kinds of borders and boundaries to control immigration flows. In addition they have tried to make these borders less impenetrable by formulating stricter immigration laws and increase the resources to enforce them, creating a ‘Fortress Europe’. In this IMES-seminar we want to discuss the actual practice of boundary making in Europe.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 9:00 - 17:00

The socio-cultural integration of Muslim migrants in Europe

From 2008 till 2012 a team based at six universities conducted extensive research on the social-cultural integration of different Muslim groups in Europe. This has resulted in the collection of unique data sets that give new insights into the interplay of policies, debates, and attitudes of, and, towards Muslim migrants.

Wednesday 20 June - Thursday, 21 June 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

Summer School: Cultures, Migrations, Borders

The University of the Aegean and the University of Amsterdam welcome applications for their multi-disciplinary Summer School ‘Cultures, Migrations, Borders’ that will take place on the island of Lesbos from June 28 to July 10, 2012.

Thursday 28 June - Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Free methodology training: Risk, Life Course and Longitudinal Mixed Methods

We invite you to participate in this workshop on methods in longitudinal research. Particularly we focus on interpretive and mixed methods research in the area of health risks and the life course. The workshop combines lectures, discussions and hands on training. It will enable you to reason about, choose and apply mixed methods approaches.

Tuesday 3 July - Wednesday, 4 July 2012

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.