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 ...

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The Habsburg Empire looked a lot like the European Union, Caroline de Gruyter argues. Although it was a state, which the EU of course is not, it was a complex international construction aiming to bring security and ...

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Tanya Wijngaarde studies how stories about UFOs originating in the Unites States are received in other societies. She looks specifically at multireligious and multiracial Suriname, focusing on three aspects that are ...

10:45 - 17:00 | Event

Ten years after the financial crisis and Western democracies are still drowning in mountains of financial debt, both public and private. The political economy of debt has a range of normative implications for ...

17:00 - 18:30 | Event

For the last two decades, the state of our planetary ecosystem has been a primary research question in all scientific disciplines. Nonetheless, the condition of our ecosystem is worsening. How does academic practice ...

Event

This conference brings together a group of specialists in the humanities and the social sciences on the “history-in-the-present” of current Far Right movements and parties, from populist to (neo)fascist, in several ...

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

To many, a border is a geographical fact. But what happens when a border is subject to an emergency? Today, as millions are forced to migrate due to war, famine and political unrest, it is important to analyse how ...

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Germany was home to the first gay rights movement in the late 1800s and was well-known as a bastion of sexual liberalism during the Weimar Republic. But since World War II, it has been slower than many other European ...

09:00 - 17:00 | Event

The Securing the Local Project will have its closing conference on the 13th of December. Please join us for the presentations and discussions.

09:30 - 15:30 | Event

Early career workshop on Studying Sexuality, Politics and Activism. Scholars will present their work on LGBT-rights-related topics. The second part of the workshop will be an interactive session on navigating ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

The lecture is co-organized by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

Racism challenges the development of biometric technologies today. To better understand this situation, my historical research explores how these technologies build on older racial research practices.

PhD defence ceremony

The aim of Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas's research is to gain more insight into the way in which power relations came to form part of and influence the design, construction and implementation of three large-scale ...

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Karolien van Teijlingen explore the power dynamics of large-scale mining expansion in Ecuador and its contentious relation to development.

13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Remko Voogd sytematically investigates the causal relations between electoral volatility (at the individual and system level) and forms of political support.

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

The ACES annual conference brings together academics and practitioners around the theme of European cities and migration. Savannah Koolen of ‘Here to Support’ and Barbara Oomen of the ‘Cities of Refuge' project will ...

09:00 - 16:00 | Event

This year’s Annual Conference, which is organised in the context of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Mobilizing Cities: Urban Geopolitics in Europe and the Mediterranean will be held on 18/19/20 December, in ...

16:00 - 17:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Carmen Leidereter carries out ethnographical research focusing on the way households in Northern Portugal have dealt with cut backs resulting from the financial crisis in 2008, and how this relates to a longer ...

Course

How can planning promote and regulate these urban commons? What are the new frontiers of the urban commons? What infrastructures and architectural forms do the commons require and produce? How will urban governance ...

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

During this evening, at Pakhuis de Zwijger, a panel of experts will engage in an open debate with the audience on the future of urban resources. This public event is part of the Masterstudio: The Common City?