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Station area developments in Tokyo and what the Randstad can learn from it

This research by Paul Chorus is about identifying the driving forces behind station area development projects in Tokyo and their implementation, if possible, in the Randstad.

Friday 25 May 2012, 10:00 - 11:30

CSCA Lecture: Conflict-control in the human brain

CSCA Lecture - Dr Tobias Egner, Duke University, USA

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

Envisioning Real Utopias: alternatives within and beyond capitalism.

Prof. Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin and President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), will present his latest book: ‘Envisioning Real Utopias’ (Verso, 2010). With this book he aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 17:00

Go with Your Gut: Emotion in Employer Hiring

Dr. Lauren Rivera, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, will provide a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms to analyze how employers’ emotional responses to job candidates in job interviews affect hiring processes.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 15:30 - 17:00

Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: Learning from Egypt

Associate Professor Linda Herrera (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) probes how Egyptian youth have been learning citizenship, forming a generational consciousness and doing politics in the digital era.

Tuesday 5 June 2012, 11:00 - 13:00

Thinking Feelings

‘Thinking Feelings’ is an effort to reflect on and connect the various efforts - from the sociology of emotions and affect to the anthropology of aesthetics - to take affects, emotions and the senses seriously in the social analysis of the deeply troubling shifts in how humans perceive themselves, others and the world at large.

Monday 11 June, 9:30 - Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 17:00

Post-Fordist Affect

In this talk Andrea Muehlebach (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto) argues that Fordism is less helpfully thought of as an past era than a locus for nostalgic yearnings that crucially intervene in and structure the present.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:00 - 18:00

Human Mobility and Borders. IMES Seminar

European nation states impose all kinds of borders and boundaries to control immigration flows. In addition they have tried to make these borders less impenetrable by formulating stricter immigration laws and increase the resources to enforce them, creating a ‘Fortress Europe’. In this IMES-seminar we want to discuss the actual practice of boundary making in Europe.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 9:00 - 17:00

Upcoming lecture: Is there a South perspective in assessing cities and urban growth?

As urban theory engages with global urban experiences, it has become caught by tensions. Has urban theory rarefied the idea that theories representing the urban experience can be universalised and conceptualised as being part of a ‘singular grid’? In this presentation, Sujata Patel discusses these two tensions and argues that the post colonial perspective has relevance given the fact that academic dependencies continue to organise global production and reproduction of knowledge.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:00 - 17:00

Barlaeus lecture

Come to the second Barlaeus lecture which will take place on Thursday June 14 by Dr Richard Ronald; specialist in comparative housing systems and cultures.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:00 - 17:00

The socio-cultural integration of Muslim migrants in Europe

From 2008 till 2012 a team based at six universities conducted extensive research on the social-cultural integration of different Muslim groups in Europe. This has resulted in the collection of unique data sets that give new insights into the interplay of policies, debates, and attitudes of, and, towards Muslim migrants.

Wednesday 20 June - Thursday, 21 June 2012

Medical Anthropology at Home Conference VII

The 7th biennial conference of the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) network, gathering medical anthropologists working in their own societies, will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

Friday 22 June, 16:00 - Sunday, 24 June 2012, 14:00

Frijda lecture: Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory

Frijda lecture - Prof. dr. Kevin LaBar, Duke University, USA

Thursday 28 June 2012, 15:00 - 16:00

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Recently published: MindOpen 8

MindOpen number 8 - autumn 2011. Digizine on Psychology.

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