Current Events

Exhibition

All over the world, people are building their own homes. Sometimes this stems from a strong personal desire, at other times it follows from necessity. The Right to Build presents a snapshot of iconic, diverse types ...

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

On Monday 14 October ACES will host a book panel discussion of Richard Bellamy’s recently published and critically acclaimed book ‘A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in ...

00:00 | Workshop

This interdisciplinary playshop, funded by a joint ACHI-CUS seed grant, aims to bring together UvA scholars from different faculties and disciplines, working on different regions, and offers an opportunity to share ...

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Kerilyn Schewel investigates why people are leaving Wayisso, a village situated in the rural lowlands of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The purpose is to contribute to a broader debate about migration and development, ...

16:30 - 18:00 | Event

In this seminar Barbara Arneil presents her research based on her book published in 2018 ‘Domestic Colonies: The turn inward to colony’.

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

At the occasion of the publication of Pierre Rosanvallon, 'De democratie denken. Werk in uitvoering', Rosanvallon will discuss the challenges and opportunities of a progressive politics with prominent Dutch voices ...

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

In the wake of both post-colonial critiques of urban studies and the emerging propositions of “planetary urbanization” there is a need to revisit theories of urban politics. During this evening, Jennifer Robinson ...

09:30 - 17:30 | Conference

During this seminar, the European City in the early 21st Century is interrogated, using the ‘comparative gesture’ at various scales. During this day, European urban academics from the disciplines of geography, ...

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

A.R. Jonkman will defend the doctoral thesis 'Distributive Justice of Housing in Amsterdam'.

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

Inequalities in health and mortality are a matter of great concern. Since more than a century, researchers try to identify the causes of such differentials in order to reduce or, ideally, eliminate them. In most ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Disability provides a useful window through which to examine divisions that have emerged in feminist/gender/sexuality scholarship in the last forty years over equality, difference, and intersectionality.

16:00 - 17:00 | Lecture

Segregation based on country of origin and social disadvantage is often automatically seen as problematic, even though many households seek out a degree of homogeneity in their living environment. In his valedictory ...

15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Twee nieuwe boeken over de islam, een debat over geopolitieke invloeden en het spanningsveld tussen kritiek en stigmatisering.

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Maria Kranendonk investigates to what extent origin-country and religious identification relate to the political participation of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries and their children in Western Europe.

10:00 - 16:00 | Event

A multitude of new objects, technological innovations and knowledge practices came to populate international and European security politics. IR and EU studies are increasingly borrowing the theoretical resources of ...

12:30 - 18:00 | Event

Climate change is heating up Earth’s atmosphere as well as disputes about how to best respond to this global challenge. “Future generations” are increasingly making themselves heard in the European debate. This poses ...

14:00 - 16:30 | Event

Prof. Gilbert will host a workshop for early career researchers working on questions of sovereignty and territory. The workshop provides an opportunity for junior researchers to present their work, to receive ...

12:30 - 18:00 | Conference

Dynamics of mobility aspirations in contexts of forced displacement.

19:15 - 21:15 | Event

How can people of different faith come together and live in peace?