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Engelstalig evenement
SPUI25 in spe
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
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.

Datum
Donderdag 14 okt 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 5 okt 2021 19:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 29 sep 2021 16:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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
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 26th of September are likely to bring, and what the results might mean for the future of Europe.

Datum
Woensdag 15 sep 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Maandag 13 sep 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 30 jun 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 22 jun 2021 11:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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’.

Datum
Zaterdag 19 jun 2021 17:00 uur
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.

Datum
Donderdag 17 jun 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Dinsdag 15 jun 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 8 jun 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 1 jun 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 26 mei 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 26 mei 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 25 mei 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 19 mei 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Woensdag 12 mei 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Vrijdag 30 apr 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Donderdag 29 apr 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Donderdag 1 apr 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 23 mrt 2021 18:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Maandag 15 mrt 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Donderdag 11 mrt 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Maandag 8 mrt 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Donderdag 25 feb 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Maandag 15 feb 2021 18:30 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Maandag 8 feb 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Donderdag 4 feb 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Woensdag 27 jan 2021 16:30 uur
Locatie
Online
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?

Datum
Woensdag 20 jan 2021 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 12 jan 2021 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Dinsdag 15 dec 2020 17:00 uur
Locatie
Online
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.

Datum
Donderdag 10 dec 2020 20:00 uur
Locatie
Online