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AISSR Courses (Archive)

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

Multiple Forms of Authority in Africa June 2010 Program

This Short Intensive Course (SIC) will move beyond simplified and often misleading dichotomisations distinguishing formal from informal forms of authority and instead aims to look at authority in sub-Sahara Africa as a constructive process with specific focus on a plurality of authorities as agents and aspects of change.

Wednesday 9 June - Wednesday, 30 June 2010

AISSR Theory Course 2010-2011

The AISSR Theory Course is an advanced Social Science Theory Course. It is a basic part of the PHD programme that AISSR develops in close cooperation with the Graduate School for Social Sciences.

Friday 15 October - Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Autumn School: Secular sounds, Islamic sounds and the politics of listening

This autumn school aims to focus on the audible or sonic aspects of the Muslim presence: while the aspect of the visible presence is crucial to understand the developments of the Islamic revival in the West as well as the ensuing (often affective, visceral) debates regarding Muslim’s access to the public sphere within the context of regimes of secularity, a crucial aspect seems to have been overlooked. Muslims have not only impacted on the visible landscape, but they also have transformed the soundscape.

Wednesday 27 October - Saturday, 30 October 2010

Short Intensive Course: Advanced relational methodology

This SIC aims at scholars who identify with a relational social philosophy to discuss and clarify the relationship between a relational social philosophy, methods and data.

Monday 22 November, 9:00 - Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 17:00

Pitch seminar: 'Interviewing and neighbourhood research' by Kimberlyn Leary

Ms. Leary is lecturing during a 3-hour seminar on two topics: why the neighbourhood is an especially interesting scale to conduct social scientific research and how interviews can be used to engage with actors on the neighbourhood level and gather important empirical evidence.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 14:00 - 17:00

Short Intensive Course – Neighbourhoods

The AISSR incorporates quite a few research projects that have a special research interest at the spatial scale of the neighbourhood. Several NICIS and NWO projects are concerned with social relations, public space, conflicts, economic patterns and (real estate) mobility on the level of the neighbourhood. This SIC will give the PhD’s involved in these research projects the opportunity to discuss together relevant theoretical and methodological topics related to the neighbourhood.

Friday 25 February - Friday, 11 March 2011

AISSR Methodology Clinic B 2010-2011

The objective of this course is to help AISSR students of all disciplines to develop the research design and methodology for their own research project.

Monday 21 March - Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Short Intensive Course Multilevel Modelling

A two-day SIC in which attendants will learn the theory behind multilevel analysis and learn how to perform these techniques themselves in the appropriate statistical packages (STATA and MLWin).

Monday 18 April - Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Short Intensive Course Frankfurter Schule

This Short Intensive Course proposes a thorough introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. The Frankfurt School is a highly influential tradition of social theory, with thinkers such as Walter Benjamin or Jürgen Habermas who continue to be essential interlocutors for today’s most prominent social theorists.

Tuesday 26 April - Tuesday, 3 May 2011

AISSR Theory Course 2011-2012

The AISSR Theory Course is an advanced Social Science Theory Course. It is a basic part of the PHD programme that AISSR develops in close cooperation with the Graduate School for Social Sciences.

Friday 9 September - Saturday, 24 December 2011

Mini-SIC on ‘Relational Ethnography’ with Matthew Desmond

A relational approach to ethnography very basically sees as the task of ethnographers to reconstruct people’s life-worlds by taking an historical approach and by focusing on performativities, transactions and practices as opposed to causalities.

Friday 9 September 2011, 15:00 - 18:00

AISSR Methods Clinic A Autumn 2011: Designing and Re-Adjusting Ethnographic Research

The emphasis of Methodology Clinic A is focused on ethnographic and qualitative Ph.D. projects which mainly rely on participant observation, in-depth interviewing, and detailed case studies.

Monday 19 September - Monday, 28 November 2011

Longitudinal Data Analysis. Where to start and where to end? Event History Analysis and Sequence Analysis

This one-day workshop is to introduce graduate students to longitudinal data analysis. The aim is to expose students to the different theoretical roots of several methodologies for analyzing quantitative data, with a special focus on longitudinal data analysis.

Friday 21 October 2011, 9:30 - 14:15

AISSR Writing up Research Course

The course focuses on preparing participants to write up fieldwork, write articles for publication and to write PhD theses. This writing course targets PhD Candidates in their 3rd or 4th year who are already in their writing phase. PhD are expected to be able to bring their own (preliminary) texts to this course.

Tuesday 8 November - Friday, 16 December 2011

Hotspots of development. Places and movements of science and technology in a globalising world

Science and technology are essential ingredients of social life, in the western world as much as in developing countries. Yet, in the developing world there are many differences as to what counts as science, how technologies operate, who is involved and how this relates to ‘indigenous’ knowledge. This PhD workshop explores issues of space and mobility in connection to science, technology and development.

Monday 12 December - Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Short Intensive Course: The Everyday and the Ordinary

The aim of the SIC is to critically engage with the concept of 'the everyday' and 'everydayness', and give participants a thorough insight into the theoretical history and the use of the term in Anthropology and the Social Sciences.

Wednesday 14 December - Friday, 16 December 2011

AISSR Methods Lab Flying Circus

Short courses for PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in Statistics, Social Networks, Visual Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, Q-methods, and ATLAS.ti.

Wednesday 11 January - Friday, 13 January 2012

AISSR Methods Clinic A Spring 2012: Designing and Re-Adjusting Ethnographic Research"

The emphasis of Methodology Clinic A is focused on ethnographic and qualitative Ph.D. projects which mainly rely on participant observation, in-depth interviewing, and detailed case studies.

Monday 13 February - Tuesday, 8 May 2012

AISSR Methodology Clinic B 2011-2012

The objective of this course is to help AISSR students of all disciplines to develop the research design and methodology for their own research project.

Monday 12 March - Saturday, 12 May 2012

Free Q-methodology training

We invite you to participate in training in q-methodology. Q is an exciting combination of interpretive and factor analytic approaches. It is used to assess subjectivity in all fields of social science.

Thursday 29 March - Friday, 30 March 2012

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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.