AISSR Harvest Day 2024

Global Social Science

On 21 November, the 11th annual AISSR Harvest Day, organized by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), will take place. The Harvest Day is the AISSR’s landmark event where social scientists and relevant organizations come together to discuss the ‘harvest’ of their research.

Date: 21 November 2024
Time: 12:00 -18:00
Location: Roeterseilandcampus - building I (CREA)
Room: Music Hall & Theatre Hall

Global Social Science

This year’s Harvest Day explores the promises and perils of global social science.

As social relations and problems span across national borders, how should social scientists adapt their frameworks and methods? How to take into consideration processes at the global level—such as climate change, the rise of authoritarianism, or international mobility—while accounting for contingencies, variations, and complexities?

Keynote lectures

Three keynote speakers will discuss their research in light of these questions. Their lectures will be followed by a conversation with an AISSR researcher:

Joyeeta Gupta

Social Sciences and Sharing our World

The planet's health and humanity are at risk as the degradation of global natural systems worsens energy, food, and water insecurity, heightening the threat of disease, disaster, displacement, and conflict. What are the earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations?

Aftertalk with Catherine Wong (Cultural Sociology)

Francio Guadeloupe

Ethnography without 'race'?

'Race' is ubiquitous, so the argument goes, and producing ethnographies undone of this social fact is becoming academically unthinkable. Francio Guadeloupe will demonstrate how he seeks to circumvent race while putting racism front and center in the study of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Aftertalk with Ruth Carlitz (Political Science)

Ursula Daxecker

Political Identities in Conflict

Conflict is necessary in politics, but it can be productive or destructive. When and why do politicians and political parties invest in shaping political identities of mutual toleration? And when do they fail to do so? Finally, how we should study identities in conflict? Ursula will draw on work on conflict, violence, and identity from around the world to answer these questions and will advocate for a social science that resonates with diverse audiences.

Aftertalk with Mieke Lopes Cardozo (Governance and Inclusive Development)

Book sessions

In addition, the Harvest Day will feature two rounds of book presentations featuring work that takes a global or comparative perspective.

Including Tanja Ahlin on transnational care, Sarah Bracke on population replacement conspiracy theories, Jeroen Bruggeman on the history of humankind, Brian Burgoon on geopolitics, Hein de Haas on migration, and Marcel Hanegraaff on global advocacy.