William Plowright’s book ‘Armed Groups and International Legitimacy: Child Soldiers in Intra-State Conflict’ looks at the use of child soldiers by armed groups, and asks under what conditions they can be convinced to ...

In this session, Marco Teunisse and Jasper Wijnen will discuss challenges and possibilities of online research tools.

On May 17, the AISSR organizes a meeting on the opportunities that the new EU framework for research and Innovation, “Horizon Europe” (HEU, 2021-2027), is offering. With Joris de Vries, Martina Chýlková, Robert ...

The VIB is co-organized by the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) and brings together researchers from six international inequality research centres. It creates a space for PhD students and postdocs to ...

The so-called ‘gig economy’ is transforming our everyday life. For a fairly cheap price, it allows customers to enjoy a variety of services with incredible convenience – such as eating their favourite restaurant’s ...

In this edition, feminist scholars, practitioners and activists discuss what feminist peace entails, and reflect on new ways forward for the European Union as a peacebuilder.

We would like to invite you to our AMCIS seminar on Citizenship & Education. Joana da Silveira Duarte, professor in World Citizenship and Bilingualism in Education at the UvA, will present her research titled ...

Sociological perspectives in Urban Studies, it is argued is enmeshed in evolutional theory, from rural-agrarian to urban-industrial. It also equates urbanization with the spatial form of the city. Consequently, the ...

This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. Chemical Youth takes as its point of departure the idea that chemical efficacies are not fixed but fluid ...

Drawing feminist analyses of the affective work of shame, compassion, and pain into dialogue with an Afro-pessimist critique of the ‘ordinary’ spectacle of Black suffering and death, this lecture theoretically ...

The roundtable aims at fostering a conversation between scholars on the everyday practices of social media in the Arab world and how this enables new forms of governance, subjectivities, and politics. We aim to ...

Critical scholarship on smart city has discussed and critiqued the notion of “smartness” purported by corporations, governments, entrepreneurs, consultants and academics. Researchers have pointed out that what counts ...

In this round table, Frédéric Merand will present his fascinating latest publication 'The Political Commissioner - a European Ethnography', which is based on original, first-hand material of an embedded observation ...

Planning and real estate dynamics are inherently intertwined. Covid19, however, disrupted established practices and relations between planners and real estate industry actors. The pandemic shed light on longstanding ...

Covid-19 has brought the role of the state into full visibility. It has both highlighted the unequal effects of the dismantling of welfare state regimes and appeals for a ‘return of the state’ to the provision of ...

In this seminar part of the Gender & Sexuality in European (Geo)politics, Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick), Emanuela Lombardo (Complutense University Madrid) and Elzbieta Korolczuk (Södertörn University) will ...

The new book ‘Pragmatic Inquiry’ examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry," reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems ...

An Urban Studies / Urban Mental Health / Global Health networking event, organized by the Centre for Urban Studies | To be followed by a Seed Grants competition funded by the Centre for Urban Studies

For this ACES seminar Lane Kenworthy will discuss his most recent Book 'Social Democratic Capitalism'. In this book he explores the question: 'What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to ...

How should we theorize race in the study of family migration in Europe? How have the history of colonialism and racism impacted the development of European family migration law, including the Netherlands? Betty de ...