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Lectures and debates

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

Fission and Fusion: Nativism, race, and memory politics in the Netherlands

In this presentation, Markus Balkenhol (Meertens Instituut, Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam) will argue that race as a politics of belonging, rather than being replaced by 'culture', continues to be operative as a marker of difference.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 15:00 - 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

Wertheimlecture 2012: Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe

Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe (University of Leiden) will give this years Wertheim Lecture. Every year a public lecture named after Wim Wertheim, the founding father of Non-Western Sociology in Amsterdam, is delivered by a renowned scholar working on Asia.

Wednesday 6 June 2012, 15:30 - 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

Conferences and symposia

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

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

Conference – Reinventing Norbert Elias: for an open sociology

This conference aims to investigate the relevance of the figurational or ‘process sociology’ of Norbert Elias for current sociological theory and research.The organising committee consists of social scientists from several Dutch universities and a renowned Australian expert.

Friday 22 June - Saturday, 23 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

IMISCOE Annual Conference 2012

The Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) will be the host of the ninth annual IMISCOE Conference. Under the title 'Mobility as the new paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences?', the conference plenary sessions aim to foster a dialogue across academic disciplines on the implications of this development for social scientific investigations in terms of research design and data analysis.

Tuesday 28 August - Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Events

Summer School: Cultures, Migrations, Borders

The University of the Aegean and the University of Amsterdam welcome applications for their multi-disciplinary Summer School ‘Cultures, Migrations, Borders’ that will take place on the island of Lesbos from June 28 to July 10, 2012.

Thursday 28 June - Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Free methodology training: Risk, Life Course and Longitudinal Mixed Methods

We invite you to participate in this workshop on methods in longitudinal research. Particularly we focus on interpretive and mixed methods research in the area of health risks and the life course. The workshop combines lectures, discussions and hands on training. It will enable you to reason about, choose and apply mixed methods approaches.

Tuesday 3 July - Wednesday, 4 July 2012