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03 07 19

The History of Information Warfare and Why It Still Matters Today

News from Germany

Information warfare may seem like a new feature of our contemporary digital world. But it was just as crucial a century ago, when the great powers competed to control and expand their empires.

26 06 19

Sexual Violence in Wars of Decolonization

NIAS Fellows Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince compare their findings on sexual violence in wars of decolonization in Indonesia (1945-1949) and Algeria (1954-1962).

25 06 19

Platform imaginaries

Rethinking Airbnb and other dominant technologies

Platforms like Airbnb, Uber and Thuisbezorgd are amongst the most popular technologies that support urban living. They allow people to rent a room, hire a car, or have food delivered to their doorstep; they regulate the city’s chaos with a tap of a smartphone. During this event, we will reflect on the ways platforms incorporate state-like logic and effects, and will incite your imagination to come up with alternatives for these dominant and dominating technologies.

20 06 19

Decisions in AI

Explaining the ‘black box’

Whether it’s a traffic fine, a court judgement or the price of your airline booking: increasingly, we leave decisions to algorithms. In the future, companies and institutions may not be able to explain what happens inside the ‘black box’. Decisions can cost or save us millions – but what if we disagree or question the outcome? A conversation between economics and data science.

13 06 19

The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora

After the Caliphate

In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory by the global jihadist movement. But it was short-lived. Three years on, the caliphate was destroyed, leaving its surviving fighters – many of whom were foreign recruits – to retreat and scatter across the globe. So what happens now?

12 06 19

Empathic brains & debunking jet theories

Amsterdam Science Now

Are you interested in science and wondering what makes scientist in Amsterdam tick? Amsterdam Science Now gives the stage to three contributors to the ninth issue of Amsterdam Science Magazine.

11 06 19

From Conflict to Co-Creation

Constructivism and Positivism

Psychologist Ken Gergen will speak about Constructivism and how this school of inquiry may relate to Positivism. This lecture will be followed by a 10-minute response of Angélique Cramer, Q&A with the audience, and some drinks.

07 06 19

Persian Culture on the Global Scene

Persophilia

For many centuries, Persian culture has been shaped by regional and global influences, and in turn, it has shaped the global cultural scene. The acknowledgment of this historical and contemporary interaction calls for the deprovincialization of Persian culture and the recasting of globalisation as a non-Eurocentric process.

04 06 19

Political animals

Can animals be political? This event takes a ‘more-than-human’ approach to politics and conflict, exploring animals’ role in mediating (interhuman) conflicts, solidarities and inequalities.

03 06 19

Self-experimentation as artistic form

How do artists use their bodies in the pursuit of a creative and intellectual inquiries? Borrowing the term “self-experimentation” – a long-standing tradition of scientists testing hypotheses, remedies, and prototypes on themselves – this event explores body-based, durational artworks as an equivalent form of embodied research, ranging from corporeal interventions and endurance performance to bio-art and ecological interactions.

29 05 19

De Nobele Samenzweerder

Brutus

De moord op Julius Caesar kan gerekend worden tot een van de meest besproken gebeurtenissen uit de klassieke oudheid. De moordenaar, Caesars vertrouweling Brutus, heeft een zeer slechte reputatie, maar is dat terecht? Wie of wat bepaalt bij koningsmoord of de dader achteraf als held of slechterik wordt gezien?

29 05 19

Workshop by Ernst van Alphen

How to do Things with Affect?

The ‘affective turn’ is gaining increasing prominence in academia and has become an indispensable concept for cultural analysis. The (over)application of affect has given rise to much criticism. In this workshop we critically assess the concept in its many uses, to understand and apply it more effectively.

28 05 19

Mirjam van Hengel in gesprek met

Julia Blackburn

Mirjam van Hengel gaat met Julia Blackburn in gesprek over haar nieuwe boek, Lied van de tijd. Hierin onderzoekt Blackburn op bijzondere wijze de geschiedenis van het Doggerland, een gigantisch laagland dat ooit de oostkust van Engeland ooit direct verbond met Nederland en het vasteland van Europa – totdat de stijgende zeespiegel het gebied voorgoed overspoelde rond 5000 voor Christus.

27 05 19

Outcomes, observations and opportunities

European Elections 2019

Between 23 and 26 May 2019 citizens across Europe can express their voices in the European Parliament elections. The stakes are high and we will likely see a lot of new developments following the elections. In this public forum, we will analyze the outcome of the elections, highlight important observations and discuss opportunities and challenges for EU politics in the upcoming legislative term.

27 05 19

Athenaeum presents

The Populist Temptation, a masterclass by Barry Eichengreen

Populism is gaining traction almost as fast as talking about populism – but is ‘populism’ a useful concept for discussion, and how? In this masterclass renowned Berkeley economist and political scientist Barry Eichengreen will actively engage his audience about the usefulness of the concept, its US and European incarnations and their roots in the economy. SPUI25 and Athenaeum cordially invite you to join Eichengreen for a masterclass and debate.

24 05 19

Legacies in 2019

Sizing up the Cold War

The Cold War ended thirty years ago, but it is possible to see many continuities into our own time. To what extent does the Cold War, and its immediate aftermath, continue to shape the world of 2019?

22 05 19

The Annual NIAS Lecture 2019

Decolonization and the Political Use of History

The Annual NIAS Lecture 2019 highlights the relevance of history in today’s world. Building upon the comparative research project of the NIAS Theme Group ‘Comparing the Wars of Decolonization’, this year’s public lecture deals with Japanese and Dutch imperial justifications of occupying the Indonesian Archipelago.

21 05 19

Why do we fear Artificial Intelligence (and should we)?

Can we not stand the thought of non-humans being more intelligent than us? Or are we perhaps afraid that artificial superintelligence will do to us, what humans tend to do to the creatures we outsmart? In a multi-disciplinary evening we will debate our fear of AI through the lens of ethics, philosophy, and art.

17 05 19

Motivations to decrease meat consumption

Unsustainable, unhealthy, or disgusting?

Meat is a key ingredient in the main meal for many cultures around the world. However, problems on a world scale such as global warming and public health raise questions about the consequences of current meat consumption patterns. What is the effectiveness of persuasive messages to decrease meat consumption?

16 05 19

Double book launch with Eliza Steinbock, Toni Pape and Sudeep Dasgupta

Affective Politics in Contemporary Media

In contemporary media culture, public discourses run to a considerable degree on feelings. Such feelings, called “affects,” can be mobilised in a variety of ways. This event will focus on the political dimension of affect by a double book launch of new books in Media Studies by Eliza Steinbock and Toni Pape.

16 05 19

The case of the Gdańsk Museum of the Second World War

Divided memories in a united Europe

In post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, various museums have become subject of severe memory battles. The impressive Gdańsk Museum of the Second World War has occupied centre stage in these debates. In this event, its founder will speak of the huge challenges museums face when national politics intervene.

15 05 19

New strategies in post-truth times

Urgent Publishing

Urgent Publishing calls for insightful, quickly produced and well-positioned publications in an era where fake news, pseudoscience and other fact free features are broadcast to the world. On this opening night of a two-day conference speakers will discuss publishing in a post-truth era: how to publish effectively between fast populism and slow academia?

14 05 19

Over de werelden onder onze voeten

Benedenwereld

‘Kijk op een heldere nacht omhoog en je ziet het licht van sterren meer dan duizenden triljoenen kilometers van ons vandaan. Kijk naar beneden en je blik stuit op topgrond, tegel of teen…’. Deze avond presenteert Robert Macfarlane zijn nieuwe boek Underland, vertaald als Benedenwereld, en kijken we verder dan het oog reikt naar de werelden onder onze voeten.

14 05 19

Reading and conversation with Sadia Abbas

The Empty Room (A Novel)

Scholar, critic and novelist Sadia Abbas will read from and discuss the backgrounds of her novel, The Empty Room, with Maria Boletsi.

14 05 19

Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture

The Playful Citizen

How can digital games encourage and develop civic engagement? Can players be turned into ecological citizens? And could games revise oppressive social structures? This playful evening, visitors will be treated to an overview of the potential and limitations of citizen engagement in the digital age.

09 05 19

The Time Machine project

Virtual travels through space and time

Time machines have been the stuff of stories and speculations for centuries. Today, advancements in computation allow us to construct such machines as complex information systems that process cultural heritage as big data of the past. In this event, researchers of the new Time Machine project present their exciting initiative.

09 05 19

Self-Determination as Self-Elimination

Israel has a Jewish Problem

Much has been written about the outcomes for Palestinians who have been excluded and marginalized by the Zionist project. This event adds a layer of complexity by asking about the outcomes of popular sovereignty for those presumed to be at the center of an ethno-national state, “the people” themselves.

08 05 19

European elections in times of polarisation and disinformation

This May will see the next European Parliament election. Electorates of 28 member states will cast their vote in a democratic process that, in the last four years, has been challenged, debated and, as some argue, misunderstood and misrepresented. In this event, SPUI25 discusses the context of opinions and information in which Europe is heading for the ballot.

06 05 19

Protecting democracy through sanctions in Europe and the global South

Punitive Democratization

We are currently at a critical juncture. While illiberal political movements and autocratic leadership are on the rise, liberal democracy is under threat in all regions of the world. Can regional organizations be the guardians of regional democratic norms in Europa and the global South?

18 04 19

Mental health in the digital age

Media as “Pharmakon”

Are digital media like narcotic drugs? Such comparisons have become increasingly common in the rampant discussion on smartphone and technology addiction. In his book ‘Plato’s Pharmacy’ (1968) philosopher Jacques Derrida discusses the ambiguity of the “pharmakon”, designating both poison and medicine, depending on context and individual differences. Can our contemporary media be seen as pharmaka for our mental health? For the 5th session of the “SAY AAHH!” series Amir Vudka, Patricia Pisters and Marlies Brouwer will discuss their ongoing work on this topic.

17 04 19

Max Porter in gesprek met Alma Mathijsen

In dit programma gaat de veelbekroonde Britse auteur Max Porter in gesprek met Alma Mathijsen over zijn nieuwe roman ‘Lanny’ en het schrijverschap.

15 04 19

Communities at Crossroads in Cyberculture

How should we understand and discuss online culture and communities in the 21st century? To answer this question, Annalisa Pelizza looks back at the mid-2000s in her new book Communities at a Crossroads. In this event Pelizza will discuss her findings together with Stefania Milan and the audience.

10 04 19

Reflections on 'The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek'

Voices

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the language of classical Greece to appear in a century. It benefits from the major advances that have been made in areas like general, comparative and historical linguistics, and provides an up-to-date and detailed description of a language that is famous as well as notorious for its complexity and subtlety.

04 04 19

European Union’s crisis politics

Alarums and Excursions

Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union. Without a script or prompt it has found itself flung onto the global stage with problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity. Luuk van Middelaar will analyse this newly imagined Europe with Jonathan Zeitlin, Steven Blockmans and Clara van de Wiel.

03 04 19

Adapt or die?

The future of scientific education

With the respectable age of 387 years, the UvA is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. It is hard to fathom we may have reached the end of the centuries-old model of a standard curriculum, yet many believe we do. What could be the answer to modern society’s questions to education?

01 04 19

Post-mortem and future prospects

After Brexit?

On 29 March 2019, the United Kingdom was scheduled to leave the European Union. The EU has granted the UK an extension until 22 May, with a decision due by 12 April. Yet less than a month from this deadline, the outcome and modalities of the UK’s departure are more uncertain than ever. No Deal, Theresa May’s Deal, Common Market 2.0, a second referendum and other pathways to No Brexit are all swirling through the British public and parliamentary debate. And whatever may be decided by 12 April, the future political and economic relationship between the UK and the EU will remain highly indeterminate.

29 03 19

An analysis of a political accident

Brexit

Brexit has morphed into a political spectacle of immense proportions. This raises a number of obvious questions: what is acutely happening in the mother of all parliaments, why is the political elite incapable of agreeing on anything, why all the lying, why all this talk of betrayal of the electorate, what explains this total and utter complete mess?

27 03 19

A talk with David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells does not call himself a climate activist, nor even a lover of nature. He lived his life in the complacency that most inhabitants of the Western world share. Until he started collecting stories of climate change: ‘a group of Arctic scientists trapped when melting ice isolated them on an island populated also by a group of polar bears; a Russian boy killed by anthrax released from a thawing reindeer carcass, trapped in permafrost for many decades.’ If they sound like hyperbolic visions of a biblical apocalypse, Wallace-Wells argues in his much-acclaimed The Uninhabitable Earth, that’s because we are generating one, at full speed.

07 03 19

Europa en zijn vluchtelingen

Niemand wil ze hebben

In dit programma kijken we naar aanleiding van het nieuwe boek Niemand wil ze hebben. Europa en zijn vluchtelingen van Linda Polman naar de ontwikkeling en de huidige staat van het Europese vluchtelingenbeleid.

15 02 19

In gesprek met schrijver Simon Winder

Europa’s grote breuklijn

In zijn nieuwe boek ‘Lotharingia’ leidt de bekende schrijver Simon Winder ons langs de steden en dorpen van Lotharingia en vertelt hij een persoonlijke geschiedenis van deze strook land, van de Frankische oorsprong in de negende eeuw tot onze tijd. Vandaag gaat Lex Heerma van Voss met Winder in gesprek.