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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 ...

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The extent to which and ways in which immigration is absorbed in host countries may be a crucial part of the puzzle of explaining anti-immigration sentiment. Joep Schaper studies two forms of immigration absorption - ...

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Jordi Halfman studies the interaction between education and nationalism in playful imaginations of belonging among primary school pupils on Sint Maarten.

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Yian Wang investigates a number of different, interconnected aspects of the daily lives of lesbian women in China and the subjectivity of 'women loving women' in China over the past decade.

12:00 - 14:00 | Event

The European Parliament elections five years ago were hailed as a “populist earthquake”, with parties like UKIP, the French Front National and the Danish People’s Party topping the polls in their respective ...

12:00 - 13:00 | Event

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova brings together social identity theory and the literature on ontological security in international relations to make sense of political developments in contemporary Russian domestic and foreign ...

13:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

Doing the urban differently. Double book-launch and discussion with academics, activists, planners, and politicians.

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Ewa Dabrowska examines how authoritarian regimes handle potential tension between their legitimating ideology and their economic policy, tracing the dynamics of resulting policy change. In her study she focuses on ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

Currently, part of Antoine Vauchez research is on the notion of “independence” as a governing principle. In this seminar he will discuss the issue of the European Central Bank.

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

More than ever, alternative urban futures are needed for an urban world that is socially just, environmentally sustainable, and capable of caring for the diversity of urban life. How can policy makers, activists, ...

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

Several countries in Europe have introduced policies aimed at developing the domestic services sector, widely considered as an important source of jobs for the unskilled, by subsidizing consumers’ demand for ...

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Prio Sambhodo discusses the character and practice of citizenship in rural Indonesia. On the basis of 12 months of ethnographic study of everyday interactions in ‘Sariendah’, a village in West Java, he traces the ...

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

During this public event at Pakhuis de Zwijger, professor Diane Davis will historicize the illicit side of urbanization in Latin America and demonstrate how modernist planning efforts have been complicit in the ...

09:30 - 17:00 | Workshop

In this workshop, we will discuss how organized crime is affecting urbanization by investigating the influential role of organized crime in urban planning and organization.

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

In this seminar series the relevance and irrelevance of race is being discussed as an object and concept of research in order to explore ways to talk about race without naturalizing differences.

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 ...

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’.

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, ...