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16 02 22

A Fundamental Force Revisited

Gravity

Gravity is a force that seems central to us walking around on this globe, but how essential is it in a physicist’s world? In physics there are considered to be four fundamental forces; interactions that do not appear to be reducible to more basic interactions. A couple of years ago, professor Erik Verlinde proposed a new theory of gravity that challenges the conventional idea that it is a fundamental force.

01 02 22

The EU’s Proposed Regulation

Fighting Global Deforestation

Deforestation is widely recognized as a major source of global environmental degradation and climate change, while also contributing in many countries to rampant illegality and violations of community rights. In this panel discussion we will consider the ambitious goals and innovative provisions of EU deforestation regulation, focusing particularly on the proposed EU demand-side measures, and the practical challenges of making them work effectively.

15 12 21

Musicality Explained

Chords of the Brain

December; that time of the year when you praise yourself with your amazing and unique music taste while unwrapping your Spotify or voting for the Top2000. Music plays an important role in many people’s lives. We enjoy listening to it on the radio or live at a concert, while many people also learn how to play instruments themselves. Why do we value music so much; are there biological or social explanations for this?

09 12 21

LGBT+ Politics and Representation

The year 2021 marks a milestone for the representation of LGBT+ people in Dutch politics, as the first trans woman was elected into parliament. This evening, academics, politicians and activists from the US and the Netherlands draw lessons from a trans-Atlantic comparison of LGBT+ rights and representation, discuss the challenges of cracking the LGBT+ glass ceiling, and formulate strategies towards more inclusive politics.

06 12 21

How Do Platforms Reshape the Cultural Industries?

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. What are the implications of the rise of platforms for how cultural producers create, distribute, market, and monetize cultural content and services?

01 12 21

How Connectivity Causes Conflict

The Age of Unpeace

We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In this new Visions of Europe lecture, Mark Leonard will present his newly published book The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict (Penguin Books), discussing rising tensions in our increasingly connected world.

24 11 21

From Brexit to the Covid-19 pandemic

EU Collective Power in Action

Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, that morphed into an existential crisis for the single currency, the EU has been beset by crises amounting to a polycrisis. In this new Visions of Europe lecture, Brigid Laffan will analyse the EU’s response to two of those crises, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic

23 11 21

The Politics of Making Vaccines

Since the first vaccines against Covid-19 were approved, at the end of 2020, the question of where they come from and who makes them, has acquired a new significance. Vaccine development was coming to reflect political rivalries reminiscent of the Cold War. If vaccines are so crucial to the preservation of human life, to the functioning of our societies, is reliance on profit-oriented corporations really wise? During this event, scientist from all over the world join together to discuss the matter of vaccine geopolitics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

14 10 21

Virtual Visions of Europe

The EU Green Deal

In a new Visions of Europe lecture Tony Agotha will speak about the need for a green transition for the health and well-being of all, the trailblazing role of the European Green Deal, and the challenge of the Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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.

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).

05 10 21

Perspectives and Tools

Decolonizing the University

Universities around the world realize that they have a responsibility to pursue diversity, inclusion and equity, but struggle with the approach. How does one make room for multiple perspectives and contribute to cultural, structural and institutional change? During this launch, the CDO team of the UvA presents their new decolonization toolkit for people inside and outside universities who want to learn and educate themselves and others.

29 09 21

Fiscal Futures in Post-Pandemic Europe

A Return to “Normal”?

The pandemic and the associated lockdowns produced the deepest and most disruptive downturn in the EU since World War II. This prompted the Council to lift all constraints on debt and deficits embedded in the European fiscal framework. Now that a post-pandemic Europe is on the rise, we explore what should be her fiscal future: a return to “normal” or a leap to something new?

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.

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.

15 09 21

European Politics in Transition #5

The German Elections: Continuity or Change?

Across Europe the upcoming German elections are followed with great interest. After 16 years of stability under Merkel, will German voters opt for continuity or change? With scholars from different disciplines we discuss what the elections on the 26^th of September are likely to bring, and what the results might mean for the future of Europe.

13 09 21

Melanie Joy and the Animal Rights Library

Carnism and Animal Rights

As children, we sympathize with animals and shudder to think of killing and eating them. However, the majority of people in western societies loses this natural sympathy and is immersed in a ‘carnistic ideology’. This evening the renowned American social psychologist Melanie Joy and Jabik Veenbaas, translator of Henry Salt’s groundbreaking Animal Rights in Relation to Social Progress (1894) dive into the subject of carnism and animal rights.

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?

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.

19 06 21

The Courage of the Writer

State of European Literature

How should a writer relate to the burning issues of European societies? What courage does Europe need from its writers? Dutch author Nelleke Noordervliet will tend to these and other questions during the second State of European Literature on ‘The Courage of the Writer’.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.