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30 09 22
Talking Populism

Populism is a widely debated topic, and it generates interest across the globe. As a result, a burgeoning literature deals with many aspects of populism and its links to pressing issues such as media freedom, minority rights, and separation of powers. The Populism Interviews captures these analyses. Editor of the volume, Luca Manucci, and two of the authors, Matthijs Rooduijn and Alessandro Nai, discuss working on this most controversial of issues.

Datum
Vrijdag 30 sep 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
30 09 22
Putin’s War and Germany’s New Foreign Policy

Putin’s war against Ukraine has ushered in the dawn of a new era or Zeitenwende. This is especially the case for Germany. In this talk, Professor Gunther Hellmann (Frankfurt/Main) will argue that hints of a pending turn-around started earlier than usually perceived. He further argues that the implications of the transformation in German foreign policy will most likely be more far-reaching than often assumed. 

Datum
Vrijdag 30 sep 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
22 09 22
National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism
The American Passport in Turkey

In their new book, The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism, Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta explore the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the United States attribute to U.S. citizenship, specifically those who possess or seek to obtain U.S. citizenship while residing in Turkey. Tonight, Altan-Olcay will discuss their findings with expert guest speakers.

Datum
Donderdag 22 sep 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
20 09 22
How New Media Reshape Traditional News Agencies and Politics
Fake News, Lügenpresse, and Disinformation Campaigns in the US, Germany and Russia

With the coming of age of digital media, the social debates on the importance of fake news, media hoaxes and disinformation came into focus of analysts, scholars and politicians. Interestingly, this global phenomenon has had similar features while developing within various local contexts. Particularly the US, Germany and Russia are of interest, since fake news has risen in different social contexts and the concept has different meanings in these countries. Tonight, experts discuss the global influence of the new media on both traditional news-gathering and politics.

Datum
Dinsdag 20 sep 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
14 09 22
Why and How the United States Curtailed High Technology Trade in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Dangerous Knowledge in Postwar America

In their new groundbreaking book, Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show the enormous political relevance that export control regulations have had for American debates about national security, foreign policy, and trade policy since 1945. 

Datum
Woensdag 14 sep 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
14 09 22
A lecture by Shannon Dea
Academic Freedom and the Duty of Care

On September 14, the AISSR hosts a lecture on academic freedom by Professor Shannon Dea, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Regina in Canada. The lecture is followed by a discussion with respondents and the public.

Datum
Woensdag 14 sep 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
30 06 22
Tactical Media Meet-Up
The European Internet Blockade of Russian Propagandist Media

Against the backdrop of the war with Ukraine, the Russian government has sharply increased funding for state media, resulting in an unprecedented level of state propaganda spread on social media platforms. As a consequence, US and EU lawmakers and Ukrainian officials have jolted into action by pressuring social media platforms in an attempt to curb Russian misinformation. This seems to be a watershed moment with regard to freedom of the press and internet freedom. We discuss what is at stake with internet activists and journalists directly involved in war-news production.

Datum
Donderdag 30 jun 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
22 06 22
Archives for the Future
Palestine and the Politics of Knowledge Production

The word archive comes from the Greek word arkheion, a repository for official documents, and a place where the archons, the rulers, reside. Archives, then, are unequivocally associated with power and authority, at least in their original formation. But who and what is the archive for? Following her latest book Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, Gil Z. Hochberg presents her view of the archive as a liberatory site—particularly in Palestinian contexts.

Datum
Woensdag 22 jun 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
15 06 22
Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives
Humanitarian Borders

What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? In her new book, Humanitarian Borders, Polly Pallister-Wilkins explores this question and inquires the politics, potential and limits of humanitarian relief in times of mobility injustice.

Datum
Woensdag 15 jun 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
15 06 22
Future Imaginaries in the Making: (Post-) Crisis Greece

Which imaginaries and narratives of the future are currently infiltrating the Greek public sphere and Greek culture, and to what ends? This panel zooms in on contemporary Greece to ask questions that contribute to larger debates about future imaginations within and beyond the neoliberal present.

Datum
Woensdag 15 jun 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
09 06 22
Oekraïne en Rusland: de verbeelding van een regio
Letteren

De Russische oorlog in Oekraïne speelt zich af op straat, in media, online, en hij wordt verbeeld in taal en literatuur. Woorden brengen troost en verbinding, maar ze kunnen ook verdelen en schaden. Welke rol spelen journalistieke teksten in deze en andere oorlogen? Waarom kunnen we niet zonder proza en poëzie in tijden van strijd? En hoe verandert een oorlog de manier waarop we praten en schrijven? We bestuderen deze vragen met literair vertalers en journalisten die Rusland, Oekraïne en de voormalige Sovjet-Unie van binnenuit kennen.

Datum
Donderdag 9 jun 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
31 05 22
Can We Unlearn Racism?

Europe does not have a good track record when it comes to addressing racism—or even admitting it exists. Despite the pervasiveness of ethnic profiling, police brutality and discrimination on the housing and labor markets, countries struggle to tackle racism. In Can We Unlearn Racism? Jacob Boersema uses South Africa as a lens to understand this challenge.

Datum
Dinsdag 31 mei 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
25 05 22
The Making of the Geneva Conventions
Preparing for War

The Geneva Conventions have hit the headlines since Putin’s invasion into Ukraine. These treaties, which represent the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated, lay down an extensive list of protections for victims of war. But their history is often misunderstood. This roundtable, based on a new book by Boyd van Dijk, discusses the historical, legal, and political dimensions of international law in wartime.

Datum
Woensdag 25 mei 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
24 05 22
Making Turkey, Representing Turkey

In this shared book launch Özge Calafato and Enno Maessen will present their new monographies. The event will focus on the contents of their respective books, which both engage with the cultural history of representation, production of identity and space in Turkey’s modern history.

Datum
Dinsdag 24 mei 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
16 05 22
Ukraine and Russia: the Imagination of a Region
Identities

Do countries have their own unique identity? How do identities on geographical maps relate to identities on our mental maps of the world? Where is Ukraine (and where Russia) on the mental map of public and academic communities? How are assumptions about cultural and local identities deployed in political domains? And what role do these assumptions play in international relations? These old questions achieve new meaning in the Russian war in Ukraine. We investigate them with renowned European scholars and writers, who each have special personal and/or family ties with Central and Eastern Europe.

Datum
Maandag 16 mei 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
28 04 22
Learning Community Urban Interaction Design
Imagining the Unimaginable

How can speculative design be used to understand citizen perspectives and help make more informed urban planning decisions for the technologized city of the future?

Datum
Donderdag 28 apr 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
20 04 22
Utopies: Conférence Euro-topies

What were the objectives of the European Union at its creation? To what extent is the utopia of peace that united its founding members threatened today? And what are the stakes and realities of today’s migratory flows?

Datum
Woensdag 20 apr 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
12 04 22
Ottoman Refugees and the World they Helped to Make, 1870-1970
Stages of Global Migration

The routes of migration in the “long” twentieth century form passages through which not only people have changed their location, but also the material and immaterial goods which they have taken with them. In policy-making circles today, representations of migration can freeze positive memories of that which needs preservation or melancholic memories of often dramatic, multiple levels of migration experience taking place in a distant world. In an attempt to advocate greater sensitivity to these various experiences in one migratory story, Isa Blumi proposes to bring historic perspective.

Datum
Dinsdag 12 apr 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
07 04 22
Footnotes to the work of Joseph Beuys

Art and society are closely connected – what political, social and cultural implications are present in Joseph Beuys’ body of work? Did Beuys deliberately use his visual language to make himself forget or even idealize his war past? We delve into these and other questions with Hans Peter Riegel, Arie Hartog, Joseph Sassoon Semah and Ton Nijhuis.

Datum
Donderdag 7 apr 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
05 04 22
Women’s Voices from the Mediterranean

What insights can women’s experiences, their use of language and their ways of communication add to our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean? Together with NIAS fellow Eric Dursteler, historian Maartje van Gelder and writers Nisrine Mbarki and Lamia Makkadam we explore women’s active participation in this multilingual region. What can insights from the early modern age tell us about today?

Datum
Dinsdag 5 apr 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
22 03 22
Conspiracy Theories and the Internet
Everything is Connected

The internet and conspiracy theories: two phenomena from today’s world that are both omnipresent, intangible and closely entangled. How should we understand the relation between the internet and the making and shaping of conspiracy theories?

Datum
Dinsdag 22 mrt 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
21 03 22
Interdisciplinarity Beyond the Buzzword
Childhood Obesity in Perspective

One in five children in Amsterdam is overweight, which has proven a difficult problem to solve. Obesity is multifaceted, originating from and persisting due to a combination of medical, social and political factors. This is why an interdisciplinary view is key towards lowering this percentage of overweight kids. Together with Amsterdam’s chief scientific officer Caroline Nevejan, Amsterdam Young Academy will present such a multifaceted view of childhood obesity, marking the launch of Interdisciplinarity beyond the buzzword: a guide to academic work across disciplines.

Datum
Maandag 21 mrt 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
15 03 22
Week against Racism 2022
Indigenous Knowledge in Academia

Who decides what is valid knowledge and what is not? During this event we challenge the disbalances of power between Indigenous knowledge and Western scientific knowledge.

Datum
Dinsdag 15 mrt 2022 16:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
14 03 22
Week tegen Racisme 2022
Verbindend leiderschap

‘The point is not to become a leader, the point is to empower others.’ Met een verkenning van verbindend leiderschap trappen wij de Week tegen Racisme 2022 af. Wat is het belang van deze week voor het hoger onderwijs en hoe draagt een visie op verbindend leiderschap bij aan de doelstellingen van de Week?

Datum
Maandag 14 mrt 2022 18:30 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
11 03 22
The Complexities of Black Life in the Netherlands

On the occasion of the publication of Francio Guadeloupe’s new book Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology, various scholars studying Dutch realities of racism, the afterlife of colonialism, conviviality and urban popular culture join the author in conversation.

Datum
Vrijdag 11 mrt 2022 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
04 03 22
Small c vs. big C: How Computational Infrastructures Capture Technical and Social Imaginary for Public Life

In recent years, the communications, sociality and operations of public institutions have become increasingly dependent on Computational Infrastructures provided by Big Tech. From decentralized contact tracing apps for public health to free online school classrooms for education: Computational Infrastructures have rapidly expanded their remit. This conversation will center on how institutions and the lives they are tasked with supporting, are impacted by Computational Infrastructures.

Datum
Vrijdag 4 mrt 2022 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
23 11 21
City Regeneration Through Film
Footage in the Ruins

How do screen productions, ranging from music videos shot in a decrepit former factory in London to an amateur film made in a war-torn Syrian town, generate value in ruined locations? In this NIAS talk we explore the ways in which cinema and TV productions extract value from these urban locations and the consequences for the people living here.

Datum
Dinsdag 23 nov 2021 16:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
17 11 21
Why and When Men and Women Make Different Career Choices
Gender Bias at Work

Progress to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goal of fostering gender equality is slow. Regarding both work field and hierarchical level, women and men still have different career outcomes. A vast body of research has shown gender stereotypes to be a main contributor to this inequality: stereotypes bias hiring, evaluation, promotion decisions, and individuals’ own career-decisions. In this lecture, Tanja Hentschel delves into the different career paths women and men take.

Datum
Woensdag 17 nov 2021 16:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
11 11 21
A Great Place to Visit, a Hard Place to Live
The Ottoman Empire and Turkey

In this keynote lecture of the conference Narrating Exile in and Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire/Modern Turkey Edhem Eldem will discuss the ongoing movement of people between Europe and Turkey.

Datum
Donderdag 11 nov 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
10 11 21
Staying Healthy in a Medieval City

How was public health organised in premodern societies, and does our knowledge about the more distant past relate to experience of pandemic and public health and environmental challenges today? Various historians explore these and other questions following the publication of Community Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries, in which Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease.

Datum
Woensdag 10 nov 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
09 11 21
Miles Davis’s Breakthrough Soundtrack
Jazz Intimacies on Screen

What is the role of jazz music in movies and on soundtracks? Ashley Kahn and Jonathan Gill discuss music and film and dive into the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis’s groundbreaking soundtrack to the 1958 film Elevator to the Gallows (Lift Naar Het Schavot). How did Davis fall into this project, how did he develop the haunting music, and how did this experience shape his career? These and other questions will shed light on a historically creative moment that had greater impact than most realize.

Datum
Dinsdag 9 nov 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
05 11 21
An evening with Saša Stanišić and Annemarie Vlaming
European Literature Prize 2021

This evening celebrates the winners of the Europese Literatuurprijs (European Literature Prize) 2021: writer Saša Stanišić and translator Annemarie Vlaming will be awarded the prize for the Dutch edition of Stanišić’s novel Herkunft/Herkomst. Together with jury members Manon Uphoff (chair) and Marieke de Groot, Stanišić and Vlaming will dive into the art of writing and translating.

Datum
Vrijdag 5 nov 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
04 11 21
Zoe Strimpel
The Pre-Tinder Dating Era

If online dating was not already the way to go, the pandemic has definitely ensured its monopolistic position in the world of love and match making. The ubiquity of dating apps makes it very hard to imagine what being single and finding a partner were like before the reign of these apps. In this talk, Zoe Strimpel explores dating, gender, and singles culture in the pre-Tinder era.

Datum
Donderdag 4 nov 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
01 11 21
Lea Ypi in gesprek met Pieter van Os
Een jeugd in communistisch Albanië

De internationaal gerenommeerde politicoloog en filosoof Lea Ypi groeide op in communistisch Albanië, destijds een van de meest geïsoleerde landen ter wereld waar communistische idealen de plaats van religie hadden ingenomen. Deze avond gaat Ypi in gesprek met Pieter van Os over haar memoires Vrij (De Bezige Bij), waarin ze terugblikt op haar jeugd en op zoek gaat naar de ware betekenis van vrijheid.

Datum
Maandag 1 nov 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
28 10 21
Slavery in the Cultural Imagination
Silent/Loud Voices/Bodies

On the occasion of the conference Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Voices of Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space, we delve into the musical imagination. Experts from various backgrounds explore silent and loud voices and bodies, of the past and present of slavery. In doing so, we aim to reveal collective emotions and imaginations that cannot be recorded from most historical sources.

Datum
Donderdag 28 okt 2021 20:30 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
15 10 21
Rahul Rao
The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality

Political theorist Rahul Rao investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality and religiosity and on contemporary homophobic moral panics. This afternoon Rao will trace the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias.

Datum
Vrijdag 15 okt 2021 14:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
11 10 21
Evolving Female Entrepreneurship in the 20th Century and Beyond
From Housewife to CEO

During this NIAS Talk we explore how female entrepreneurship has evolved in the 20th century in the Netherlands. By weaving philosophical, historical and contemporary experiences together, we explore the past and present of female entrepreneurship.

Datum
Maandag 11 okt 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
07 10 21
Critical Meme Reader Launch
Global Mutations of the Viral Image

Memes are not just funny images on the web, they say a lot about the world we live in and can be used as tactile tools for social change. On the occasion of the launch of the Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image, we dive into the universe of meme (studies).

Datum
Donderdag 7 okt 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
22 09 21
Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought
The Color of Equality

The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of egalitarianism and the modern philosophy of human rights or blamed as the source of racism, sexism, and all that has gone wrong in modernity. On the basis of his new book, The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought (University of Pennsylvania Press), historian Devin J. Vartija will discuss the contradictory legacy of the Enlightenment together with Shiru Lim, Amada M’charek, Silvia Sebastiani and Alicia Montoya.

Datum
Woensdag 22 sep 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25
17 09 21
Amsterdam German Studies Lecture
Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age

The object of transnational history is ‘classically’ defined as a study of the circulation or flow of people, ideas, things and institutions across national borders. Its advocates often seek not only to abolish the national container as the defining framework for historical analysis, but to write history as if national borders don’t exist at all. Historian John Krige will argue that when knowledge and know-how in motion are the object of transnational flows, a variety of constraints on knowledge reinject borders into the heart of the analysis.

Datum
Vrijdag 17 sep 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
SPUI25