AISSR Harvest Day 2024
Global Social Science
- Date
- 21 November 2024
- Time
- 12:00 -18:00
- Room
- Music Hall & Theatre Hall
Program
12:00 – 13:00 Walk-in lunch
13:00 – 15:30 Keynote lectures & aftertalks
15:30 – 16:45 Book videos & presentations
16:45 – 18:00 Drinks & networking
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:
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)
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)
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)
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.