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30 06 21
Art as Data Activism

Art as a form of political engagement is a proven formula, but what about art as a form of data activism? Can art help us better understand and question the politics of everyday data flows?

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Woensdag 30 jun 2021 17:00 uur
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22 06 21
Infrastructures of Collecting in Transnational Perspective
(Un)Mapping Modern Art

Moving our understanding of modern art production beyond the dominant canon and narrative: this will be the aim of ‘(Un)mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives on Modern Art, 1900-1970’. With keynotes by Professor John Clark and Professor Partha Mitter, we mark the start of this long-term research project.

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Dinsdag 22 jun 2021 11:00 uur
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17 06 21
Interfering in Social Science English
On Other Terms

The diversity of academic work is simultaneously strengthened and limited by the use of English as an ‘international’ language. This event focusses on the book On Other Terms: Interfering in Social Science English that gathers together texts of authors who grew up with other tongues, but who do most of their academic work in English. It introduces carefully selected other terms and articulates what may be gained from allowing them to interfere in English.

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Donderdag 17 jun 2021 17:00 uur
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15 06 21
From Chaos to Life
Entropy

A grand scientific concept that unifies the cosmological, the societal, the microbial, all the way to the atomic: entropy is a key concept in understanding the beginning of the universe, the later emergence of life, and the end of the universe. How should we understand the interpretation and uses of this concept?

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Dinsdag 15 jun 2021 20:00 uur
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08 06 21
When Everything is Designed
The World as Project

In the past, designers created objects. Today, practically everything is designed: the climate, processes, refugee camps. But when everything is designed, it is high time to stop judging design solely on aesthetic criteria.

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Dinsdag 8 jun 2021 17:00 uur
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01 06 21
Contributions from the Humanities
Voices on Israel/Palestine

This two-part event offers a critical, academic perspective on Palestine/Israel. Speakers on the first night will provide an in-depth historical, cultural and social analysis of the current moment.

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Dinsdag 1 jun 2021 20:00 uur
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26 05 21
Political imagination with(in) and beyond the state
The Longer Histories of Statephobia

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 public goods such as healthcare. Can this moment of crisis provide opportunities for a new politics?

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Woensdag 26 mei 2021 20:00 uur
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26 05 21
Unfolding 21st Century Scenarios
Experiencing Art in Pandemic Times

Nothing is like it used to be in the art world: the Covid-19 pandemic has caused art institutions globally to relocate events and activities to online spaces and social media, or postpone those for which physical presence was deemed essential. The art world has fundamentally existed in and as a physical space: what are the consequences of the major transformation taking place in art institutions as a result of the ongoing public health crisis?

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Woensdag 26 mei 2021 17:00 uur
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25 05 21
Postcolonial Practices in the Netherlands and Norway
Culture, Coloniality and Companionship

How to relate to a colonial past that has influenced today’s cultural institutions, universities and archives? What strategies do present-day researchers and artists employ to both acknowledge detrimental histories and ‘unlearn’ them? Taking renowned cultural theorist Ariella Azoulay’s notion of ‘companionship’ as our starting point, we explore the very different yet in ways remarkably consistent Dutch and Norwegian postcolonial practices.

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Dinsdag 25 mei 2021 17:00 uur
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19 05 21
From Cosmetics to Toxins
Stories of Skin Care

Over time, the world of skin care has won a spot in almost everyone’s bathroom and nightstand. Commercials promote the ‘right’ skin care routines resulting in health and beauty. But isn’t there more to it, what are the true stories behind skin care?

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Woensdag 19 mei 2021 20:00 uur
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12 05 21
The Racial History of an Idea
White Freedom

In his new book, White Freedom, historian Tyler Stovall traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white. He will discuss these new perspectives together with historian René Koekkoek and anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe.

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Woensdag 12 mei 2021 20:00 uur
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30 04 21
Refugees and Religion

The complex role of religion in the flight and accommodation of refugees is often overlooked or narrowed down to questions about the presumed backwardness of religious conflict or moral superiority of a welcoming culture. With the editors of Refugees and Religion we discuss the issue of religion from a broader, comparative and historical perspective, understanding religious refugees as an integral part of the modern world.

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Vrijdag 30 apr 2021 17:00 uur
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29 04 21
Anti-lockdown Protests and the (Geo)Politics of Statephobia
Statephobia: Whose Sovereignty?

In this first episode of the Statephobia and Statephilia Series, political philosopher Mitchell Dean, one of the foremost contemporary theorists of state power, and political geographer Luiza Bialasiewicz discuss the nature of the current Covid-19 protests and their wider political as well as geopolitical implications.

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Donderdag 29 apr 2021 20:00 uur
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01 04 21
Citizen-state relations in the city
Hear me out!

In this NIAS Talk fellows Anouk de Koning, Nanke Verloo and Markha Valenta discuss contemporary urban citizenship in Amsterdam as there is increasing emphasis on democratization and representation in citizen-state relations.

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Donderdag 1 apr 2021 20:00 uur
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23 03 21
New Visions of German History

In a new Amsterdam German Studies Lecture historian Frank Biess pleads for new narratives for the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Too often, German postwar history has been depicted as a success story of a country which eventually arrived in the fold of Western liberalism.

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Dinsdag 23 mrt 2021 18:00 uur
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15 03 21
Collecting and Mapping Knowledge of Southern Africa
Rethinking Colonial Cartography

In this NIAS Talk we investigate late nineteenth century maps of southern Africa, made and compiled by European settlers. Many colonists who settled in what would become South Africa felt a need to map the land in order to ‘know’ it. What happens when we read colonial maps as texts?

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Maandag 15 mrt 2021 20:00 uur
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11 03 21
European Politics in Transition #4
Turning out- or inwards?

The Netherlands on the EU and international stage after the 2021 elections.

On 17 March 2021, a new parliament will be elected in the Netherlands. Many of the issues that feature prominently in party manifestos and the campaign have an obvious international dimension: the economic recession that is manifesting itself, the European distribution of Covid vaccines, or the measures needed to tackle climate change. Moreover, the outcome of the elections impacts on the government composition, and hence on the position of the Netherlands on the EU and international stage.

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Donderdag 11 mrt 2021 20:00 uur
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08 03 21
Dit hebben wij in huis! #8
Gender and Citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean

Together with Associate Professor Theatre Studies Sruti Bala and Rose Mary Allen, Professor of Culture, Community and History at the University of Curaçao, we will look at the developments of women’s studies and feminist movements in the islands of the Dutch Caribbean.

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Maandag 8 mrt 2021 17:00 uur
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25 02 21
Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times
When the Great Equalizer shuts down

In 1848 Horace Mann wrote that schools and education are the great equalizer of conditions of men; the balance wheel of the social machinery. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, schools have remained closed for long periods around the globe, depriving society of this powerful equalizing force of education accessible to all. What are the consequences on children today and on the future society?

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Donderdag 25 feb 2021 17:00 uur
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15 02 21
NIAS Talk
Newcomers’ Right to the City

With increasing worldwide migrant mobilities it is not always clear who has the right to the city. What is the role of the newcomer in an urbanized world?

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Maandag 15 feb 2021 18:30 uur
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08 02 21
Dit hebben wij in huis! #4
The Future of the Soviet Past: Can ‘Doing History’ Further Reconciliation in Russia?

What are the prospects for reconciliation when a state denies, marginalizes, or appropriates the narrative regarding a history of repression? In conjunction with the end of the Soviet era and the global ascent of the human rights discourse, observers and Gulag survivors alike expected that the nation’s history of repression would be more fully acknowledged and redressed. This proved inaccurate.

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Maandag 8 feb 2021 17:00 uur
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04 02 21
NIAS Talk
Mapping Belonging as a Field of Study

‘To belong: to be in the right place or a suitable place. To feel happy or comfortable in a situation.’ According to the Cambridge dictionary, the very word ‘belonging’ conjures up warm feelings. But what about the tensions present in this word?

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Donderdag 4 feb 2021 20:00 uur
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27 01 21
Under Attack in Central-Eastern Europe
Gender and Sexuality Studies

What are the historical, political, social and cultural sources of the attacks on Gender and Sexuality Studies in Central-Eastern Europe? Are they local or rather fueled by transnational conservative movements? What are possible strategies and solidarities (local and global) to counteract them? This roundtable is part of the ACES lecture series Gender and Sexuality in European (Geo)Politics.

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Woensdag 27 jan 2021 16:30 uur
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20 01 21
CRISPR-Cas9
Gene Editing and Ethics

Last year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emanuelle Charpentier for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. How does this gene editing technique work? Which ethical questions does it provoke?

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Woensdag 20 jan 2021 20:00 uur
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12 01 21
The CIA's Public Life
Are Secret Agencies all that Secret?

In this NIAS talk, fellow Simon Willmetts focuses upon arguably the world’s most famous intelligence service, the CIA, and how they have tried to come to terms with their new public role.

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Dinsdag 12 jan 2021 17:00 uur
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15 12 20
Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
Chemical Youth

We welcome you to the festive launch of the book ‘Chemical Youth’. The everyday lives of contemporary youth are filled with chemicals to boost pleasure, moods, sexual performance, appearance and health. What do pills, drinks, sprays, powders and lotions do for youth? In this event, we investigate how young people experience these chemical substances.

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Dinsdag 15 dec 2020 17:00 uur
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10 12 20
NIAS Talk
The Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility

In this NIAS Talk we shed light on the politics of migration and health, and official knowledge and decision making about people with chronic illness and developmental or genetic otherness within the Canadian immigration system.

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Donderdag 10 dec 2020 20:00 uur
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09 12 20
Future Design
Collaborating with Nature

Leather grown from fungi and textile dye produced by bacteria are two examples of applications of microbiology that are finding their way into the design field. Designers explore the expressiveness of such new materials through design interventions that can change our attitudes to finite (petrochemical) and/or toxic materials.

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Woensdag 9 dec 2020 17:00 uur
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02 12 20
The Science of Conspiracies

In times of COVID-19, trust in science has become crucial for the world’s well-being. In the day and age of the internet however, we are often exposed to the opinions of those who reject scientific findings. In this BètaBreak edition we examine how conspiracy theories evolve and analyse the concerns they invoke from a scientific perspective.

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Woensdag 2 dec 2020 20:00 uur
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30 11 20
European Politics in Transition #2
Corona and the populist radical right: end of an era?

The ongoing corona pandemic is reshaping our societies and our democracies. One of the most significant political developments in recent years has been the rise of populism. What effect will the pandemic have on populist radical right parties in Europe?

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Maandag 30 nov 2020 20:00 uur
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30 11 20
Marriage Migration and Integration

This seminar launches the book ‘Marriage Migration and Integration’. This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages – Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs. During the launch, the authors will present the key findings, followed by a Q&A with the virtual audience.

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Maandag 30 nov 2020 14:30 uur
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26 11 20
Distinguished Lorentz Fellow Talk
Beyond the crisis in psychology

With the help of interdisciplinary research Iris van Rooij, Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2020/21 at NIAS, will elaborate on possible ways out of the current crisis in psychology.

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Donderdag 26 nov 2020 16:00 uur
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25 11 20
The Aesthetics and Affordances of Massive Media
What happens when a building becomes a screen?

What are the critical and creative possibilities of large-scale public projections, urban screens and media architecture, and the technical and social networks connected to them? We analyze the role that ‘massive media’ can play in practices of monumentality, public art, and digital placemaking and placekeeping.

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Woensdag 25 nov 2020 17:00 uur
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05 11 20
European Politics in Transition #1
The US presidential elections: implications for Europe

The impact of the outcome of the US presidential elections extends far beyond North America. With scholars and journalists we discuss what the election results might mean for politics in European countries.

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Donderdag 5 nov 2020 17:30 uur
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05 11 20
Great Thinkers #2
Nanke Verloo presents Chantal Mouffe

In this Great Thinkers Seminar, Nanke Verloo will present Chantal Mouffe, one of the most critical contemporary thinkers on democracy.

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Donderdag 5 nov 2020 15:30 uur
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04 11 20
De wetenschap achter het vrouwelijk orgasme

Jarenlang werd het vrouwelijk orgasme voor onbelangrijk versleten. Het lichaam van de vrouw zou gemaakt zijn om kinderen te baren en een orgasme leek daarbij geen rol te spelen. Inmiddels is menigeen een andere mening toegedaan.

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Woensdag 4 nov 2020 20:00 uur
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29 10 20
Which Ways Forward?
EU External Action against Deforestation

Fighting deforestation has quickly risen towards the top of the EU’s external action agenda. Not only is deforestation a major source of environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, but it also contributes in many countries to rampant illegality and violations of indigenous community rights.

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Donderdag 29 okt 2020 10:00 uur
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26 10 20
How and Why Economics Needs to Change

Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes. Join us in celebrating the new book ‘Wellbeing Economics’ by Nicky Pouw that argues for a new framework that puts human wellbeing at the centre. With: Nicky Pouw, Daniel Mügge and Brian Burgoon.

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Maandag 26 okt 2020 13:00 uur
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23 10 20
Manufacturing reality in times of crisis
I don’t believe in facts

Embellished by social media, COVID-19 has triggered a veritable conspiracy boom, further eroding scientific and journalistic standards of objectivity and truth. Faced with crisis and the unknown, we look for answers beyond traditional media; and there are many charlatans ready to offer their services of providing easily digestible explanations.

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Vrijdag 23 okt 2020 20:00 uur
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15 10 20
NIAS Talk
Whose climate crisis is it?

Where do we take the struggle for climate justice when governments continue to fail to make structural changes which are urgently needed? During this NIAS Talk, journalist Jaap Tielbeke and legal scholars Jeff Handmaker and Daphina Misiedjan discuss the role of (environmental) law in increasing efforts to fight climate change.

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Donderdag 15 okt 2020 20:00 uur
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