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Grant for three UvA projects concerning sustainable urban areas

Three research projects of UvA academics will receive a grant as part of the research programmes Urban Regions in the Delta and Sustainable Accessibility of the Randstad organised by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Wat kan beleidsbemiddeling betekenen voor Nederlandse bestuurders?

Beleidsbemiddeling is een nieuwe vorm van conflicthantering in publieke kwesties. Bij beleidsbemiddeling schakelen maatschappelijke partijen een onafhankelijke derde in om te bemiddelen. Op donderdag 5 april wordt het rapport Publieke beleidsbemiddeling aangeboden aan de Nationale ombudsman, dr. Alex Brenninkmeijer.

Renewed funding IS Academie Education and International Development

After a successful first phase (2006-2011) of the IS Academie cooperation between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DSO-OO) and the research group on Education and Development (part of the AISSR Governance and Inclusive Development Group), a new agreement has been signed for continued funding for a period of 3 years.

Film 'Living Like a Common Man' on national television in India

The film (2011) by Sanderien Verstappen, Mario Rutten and Isabelle Makay has already been selected for 10 international film festivals in different parts of the world.

Prof. Mattijs van de Port new co-director of the programme group Globalizing Culture

As of April 1, Prof. Mattijs van de Port will be appointed as the new co-director. Together with Prof Annelies Moors, he will lead the Programme Group.

PhD Candidate Sanderien Verstappen in Indian Newsmedia

Her efforts to learn the Gujarati language have particularly been appreciated, and were reported in two vernacular language newspapers and on two Gujarati new TV-channels.

US subprime mortgages mainly issued to middle class households

Most subprime mortgages in the US were issued to members of the middle classes. The current perception that most subprime mortgages in the US were sold to lower-income groups is thus inaccurate. This is one of the conclusions of a recently published book entitled ‘Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets’, compiled under the editorial supervision of Manuel Aalbers, assistant professor in Social Geography and Planning at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Maarten Hajer appointed honorary professor in Copenhagen

Maarten Hajer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), was recently appointed honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Political Science department.

New research: "Can’t we leave that to the volunteers?' Changing relationships between professionals and volunteers in care and welfare.

NWO has awarded Jan Willem Duyvendak, Evelien Tonkens, Loes Verplanke and Imrat Verhoeven this project that analyzes the shift from professionals to volunteers in social services in The Netherlands.The project runs for two years and will start around the summer of 2012.

De Tasjesdief

Deze tweede booklet in de reeks 'Project Buurten, Spanningen en Conflicten' geeft een overzicht van de gebeurtenissen rondom een lokaal incident in Amsterdam Oost in januari 2005.

AISSR participates in the research project “Please do it yourself”.

This international comparative research project focuses on social support, professional counseling and long-term upward social mobility in a neighbourhood-based approach.

Prestigious travel grant for Mario Rutten

Prof. Mario Rutten has secured an International Collaboration Award (ICA) of $13250 by the Australian Research Council (ARC) within the research project Contingent Development: The Regional Impacts of Neoliberal Globalization in India. ICA applications only have 10% success rate.

Journal Maritime Studies (MAST) becomes Open Access

Maritime Studies (MAST) is an international journal devoted to maritime issues. The journal has received a generous subsidy from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to become an Open Access Journal.

Invitation to teach at a methods workshop in Amsterdam

At the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) we organize a workshop on longitudinal interpretive or mixed methods research. Risk research should be a large part of the workshop, but contributions from other fields are welcome too. For this workshop we are looking for one or two speakers / teachers. Please read more about it below.

ERC for research into the social and political aspects of sports migration

UvA anthropologist Niko Besnier received an ERC Advanced Grant for his research into the consequences of sports migration.

Images as scientific source: video tutorials for scientists

Cultural anthropologist John Kleinen and three of his students have received grants to study the use of images as scientific source. The results of the study will be translated in video tutorials for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and social geographers.

Nederlandse kiezer niet wispelturig maar kieskeurig

De Nederlandse kiezer verandert steeds vaker van partij. Meer dan de helft van de Nederlanders (55%) verandert wel eens van partijvoorkeur. Maar dat betekent niet dat de kiezer wispelturig, emotioneel of irrationeel is, zoals veel (oud-)politici beweren. Nederlanders zijn trouw aan hun eigen opvattingen, maar niet langer trouw aan een enkele partij: ze veranderen vooral tussen partijen die ideologisch sterk op elkaar lijken. Dit blijkt uit het onderzoek Kieskeurige kiezers van politicologen dr. Tom van der Meer en prof. dr. Wouter van der Brug van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

ERC Advanced Grant voor UvA-hoogleraren Niko Besnier en Hans Aerts

Antropoloog prof. dr. Niko Besnier en medisch bioloog prof. dr. Hans Aerts ontvangen de prestigieuze ERC Advanced Grant van de Europese Research Council.

Marlies Glasius appointed on special chair at Vrije Universiteit

As of January 1, 2012, our colleague Marlies Glasius has been appointed on the chair Citizens’ Involvement in War Zones and Post-Conflict Zones at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. This special chair (bijzondere leerstoel) has been jointly created by the VU and peace movement IKV.

Gert-Jan Veerman received a PhD dissertation scholarship for teachers

Veerman is currently writing his PhD thesis on 'Ethnic Diversity and School Performance' at the AISSR and the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies.

ERC Advanced Grant: Globalization, Sports and the Precarity of Masculinity

Prof. Niko Besnier has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his multi-sited comparative ethnographic project that will investigate the migratory dynamics at play between selected developing countries and selected countries in the industrial world in three different sports, soccer-football, rugby union, and cricket.

Nomination by the American Society for Economic Anthropology

The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) has nominated Barak Kalir’s recent book 'Latino Migrants in the Jewish State' for the award for best book 2009-2011.

Zef Hemel benoemd op Wibautleerstoel UvA

Dr. Zef Hemel is benoemd op de Wibautleerstoel aan UvA. Deze bijzondere leerstoel is door de gemeente Amsterdam ingesteld voor de studie van de grootstedelijke problematiek, in het bijzonder van Amsterdam.

Research Priority Area 'Global Health' launches new website and centre name

The Centre for Global Health and Inequality (CGHI) has changed its name to Centre for Social Science and Global Health (SSGH). SSGH builds on a long tradition of multidisciplinary social science research on health and illness at the same university.The website provides information on the activities of the centre and affiliated reseachers and projects.

Artists’s impressions of the boundaries of gender

The Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) has started a unique cooperation with Ronit Eden Concept and Spatial Design. Ronit Eden is currently organising the exhibition 'The Gatewatcher' (Spring 2012 in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) where international artists address the boundaries of gender. ARC-GS has published photo's of their artworks on the ARC-GS website and thereby supports this exhibition.

Transitieprocessen in Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten

Paul Aarts heeft van het WODC (Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum van het ministerie van Veiligheid & Justitie) de opdracht gekregen tot een "Theoretische duiding van transitieprocessen in Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten".

2011 Diana Forsythe Prize for Alexander Edmonds

Alexander Edmonds was awarded the 2011 Diana Forsythe Prize for the best book on the anthropology of work, science, and technology, including biomedicine: “Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil (Duke Univ. Press).”

The emigrant influence on native-country politics

Emigrants from politically unstable countries tend to maintain close ties with their country of birth. What influence do such - often lifelong - relationships have on political processes in those home countries? Dr Maria Koinova, a political scientist at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) recently received an ERC Starting Grant to answer this research question.

UvA scores high in global rankings for Social Sciences

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is ranked 40th in the Top 50 Social Sciences universities as assessed by Times Higher Education (THE). The UvA is the only continental European university on the global list.

Paperback edition of Routledge book by John Grin

The book is a state of the art of theory in the new field of transition studies. It is the first volume in a new Routledge series on sustainability transitions

Academic Seminar for Students and Faculty: “Power and Dynamics of Civil Resistance”

Do you want to learn more about the civil resistance during the Arab Spring? Do you want to understand strategies and tactics for non‐violent conflict? Do you want to interact with world‐known experts on the subject? Then you can now register for the Academic Seminar for Students and Faculty “Power and Dynamics of Civil Resistance”. Deadline application: 1 December 2011.

Call for Participation- “Migration in the margins of Europe” (NIA – IMES WINTER COURSE)

The Netherlands Institute at Athens and the Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies (University of Amsterdam) organize this intensive winter course in collaboration with Greek universities, 9-19 January 2012

ERC laureate seeks to explain inequality better by examining homeownership

Sociologist Dr Caroline Dewilde, who was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant, is investigating whether changes in homeownership may also explain the growing inequality.

Blanca Garces Mascareñas receives the 2011 prize for the best sociological dissertation

The Dutch Sociological Association (Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging NSV) has decided to award the 2011 prize for the best sociological dissertation defended in 2009 and 2010 at a Dutch university jointly to doctor Garces Mascareñas (University of Amsterdam) and doctor Van der Waal (Erasmus University).

In Memoriam Ineke van Wetering (1934-2011)

Op 18 oktober jl. is Ineke van Wetering overleden. Zij was antropologe aan de Vrije Universiteit en is gedurende één jaar (1995-1996) gasthoogleraar aan de ASSR geweest. Wij verliezen in haar een gedreven collega met een scherp etnografisch en analytisch oog.

John Kleinen joined the newly erected EU-ASIA Centre in Brussels as senior advisor

The EU-ASIA Centre Centre in Brussels seeks to deepen the knowledge of the changes taking place in Asia, to provide a forum for a strategic discussion on EU-Asia relations, and to contribute to the policy mix

Register now for the AMMA Winterschool

The AMMA Winterschool takes place annually in January. The short courses which are organised in this School are designed to offer students both overview and insight into the state of the art of medical anthropological research in five essential themes in health care.

Urban Studies Summer School: International Housing, Policy and Planning July 2012

In this three week summer program students will explore housing, planning and policy issues in European cities as well as consider how these apply in other regions of the world.

UvA-promovendus werpt nieuw licht op slavenschepen

Het slavenschip Leusden verging op 1 januari 1738 voor de monding van de Marowijnerivier in Suriname. Leo Balai onttrekt deze tragedie aan de vergetelheid. Hij promoveert op vrijdag 21 oktober aan de UvA.

First results of the Provincial Globalisation research programme

This WOTRO-NWO funded research programme focuses on the process of ‘provincial globalisation' in India. The first working papers can now be downloaded.

Dr. Klarita Gërxhani receives Aspasia grant.

Dr. Klarita Gërxhani received this award for her NWO-VIDI research proposal “CITEwomen: Changing Institutions – Theory and Empirics applied to women in the top”.

Isa Baud is new EADI President: “Linking researchers and policymakers, and civic organizations is one of EADI’s strengths”

Isabelle Baud, Professor in International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, is the new President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). She was elected unanimously by the EADI General Assembly held on 21 September 2011 in York.

Sebastien Chauvin receives Le prix du livre RH 2011

Le prix du livre RH 2011, held for the eleventh consecutive year by the French national newspaper Le Monde, French University Sciences Po and Syntec Recruitment, was presented by Pierre-Eric Tixier, professor at IEP Paris, to Sébastien Chauvin for his work 'Les agences de la précarité. Journaliers à Chicago' (Le Seuil).

Social Sciences rank 39 in the QS World University Rankings 2011/2012

QS World University Rankings 2011/2012 were released in September 2011 and offer people the chance to see who are the top universities in the world.

Upcoming seminars Programme Group Globalizing Culture

Each month the AISSR programme Group Globalising Culture organises a seminar where staff members and affiliates present their current research. Autumn 2011 presenters are Mattijs van de Port (4 November), Ana Dragojlovic (2 December) and Rob van Ginkel (16 December).

UvA jumps into top 100 of Times Higher Education rankings

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) rose from 165th place to 92nd place in the World Universities Rankings 2011-2012 organised by Times Higher Education (THE). The UvA is one of four Dutch universities on the list.

More than 25 new PhD Candidates and junior researchers have joined AISSR

The AISSR is very happy to welcome more than 25 new PhD Candidates and junior researchers who will start their trajectory or work this academic year in various research projects.

Prof. Douglas Massey (Princeton University) visits AMCIS

Prof. Douglas Massey (Princeton University) will visit the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS), to give a workshop for PhD students and give an Amsterdam Inequality Lecture.

Jasper Blom (politicologie) leidt discussie op ICISA jaarvergadering in

Deze jaarvergadering brengt topmensen van ’s werelds grootste private exportkredietverzekeraars bij elkaar, gezamenlijk verantwoordelijk voor meer dan 2 biljoen aan verzekerde handelscontacten. Tijdens de bijeenkomst sprak Blom over de opkomst van de zogenaamde BRICs (Brazilië, Rusland, India en China) en de implicaties hiervan voor het mondiale financiële systeem.

Emancipatie en integratie: ruim vijftig wetenschappers presenteren laatste inzichten

Emancipatie beoogt bevrijding en gelijkwaardigheid, maar leidt in de praktijk niet zelden tot sociale uitsluiting, onbedoelde discriminatie en achterstelling. Vanuit die vaststelling discussiëren wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines met elkaar op 14 en 15 oktober tijdens het congres ‘Uitsluitend Emancipatie’.

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