Previous events and lectures
Previous events and lectures held at AUC.
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27Nov2019
Read moreNumbers and stories: interdisciplinary research in fisheries management
12:35 - 13:35 | Lecture
Interdisciplinary approaches can have great impact in research that specifically aims to influence policy – where gaining the attention of politicians and the voting public is important. On the one hand, impressive ...
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26Nov2019Read more
De-Stress Fest
18:00 - 21:00 | Event
The Well-being Team warmly invites all students and staff to the annual stress-relief fundraiser on Tuesday, 26 November from 18.00 to 21.00 in the Common Room of the Academic Building. The theme this year is ...
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13Nov2019
Read moreAUC Master's Application Event 2019
13:00 - 17:00 | Information event
AUC will be hosting an afternoon full of workshops to assist students and recent AUC graduates who are applying for master's programmes. The event will give attendees practical tips on how to start the application ...
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11Nov2019
Read moreAUC Logic Lectures: Logic and Information Flow
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
Starting from logical patterns in inferences, we broaden our scope to other information-producing actions such as questions and observations. These, too, have valid patterns that can be described using techniques ...
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09Nov2019Read more
Amsterdam University College Open Day: November 2019
10:00 - 16:00 | Information event
During an Open Day, you will be able to learn all about the AUC academic programme through diverse information sessions, tours of the academic building and student residences and speaking directly to staff and students!
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07Nov2019
Read moreThe Future of Animal-Friendly Food
08:45 - 10:45 | Lecture
As part of Big Questions in Future Society, this Who's in Town lecture concerns the future of sustainable food. Focus is given to the increasing realisation that, due to increasing awareness of climate change and ...
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06Nov2019
Read moreThe threat of nuclear weapons and what you can do about it
14:00 - 15:00 | Lecture
Nuclear weapons remain the most destructive weapons ever designed. Weapons designed to devastate cities, to annihilate armies, and to vaporize populations. Nuclear weapons are things that we tend to think of in the ...
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05Nov2019
Read moreCelebration of the Days of the Dead at AUC
12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture
The celebration of the Days of the Dead is a uniquely Mexican tradition, combining the Pre-Hispanic tradition of honouring the dead with Spanish influences of the Catholic Church. Throughout Mexico and in other parts ...
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01Nov2019
Read moreDeeply felt affect: understanding emotions through deep active inference
16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture
The study of feelings and moods can be understood as self-organising patterns that span our entire bodies – they shape the way we tend to act overall, but also much faster processes that happen in our bodies, down to ...
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07Oct2019
Read moreThe micro-sociology of violent situations
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
Don Weenink will present the micro-sociological approach to studying violence. Micro-sociology perceives violence as meaningful, embodied and emotionally charged interactions in which people purposively inflict ...
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05Oct2019
Read moreAmsterdam Science Park Open Day 2019
12:00 - 17:00 | Event
On Saturday, 5 October 2019, from 12.00 to 17.00, the organisations based at Amsterdam Science Park will hold their annual Open Day featuring a mix of activities suitable for all ages. Amsterdam University College, ...
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01Oct2019
Read moreLustrum 2019: AUC Alumni Dinner at SkateCafe
18:30 - 21:30 | Event
In honour of AUC's ten-year Lustrum celebration, AUC and the AUC Alumni Association (AUCAA) will be hosting a special dinner at SkateCafe in Amsterdam Noord for AUC alumni on Tuesday, 1 October 2019. After dinner, ...
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27Sept2019
Read moreDies Natalis 2019
15:30 - 19:00 | Event
Amsterdam University College will celebrate its 10th Dies Natalis on Friday, 27 September at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.
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26Aug2019 30Aug2019
Read moreAUC Introduction Week: August 2019
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All new students who have accepted their offer and will be attending AUC starting September 2019 will participate in the AUC Introduction Week from 26 - 30 August 2019. Please note that attendance at AUC Introduction ...
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01July2019
Read moreGraduation Ceremony 2019
13:30 - 16:00 | Event
The graduation ceremony for the Amsterdam University College Class of 2019 will be held on Monday, 1 July 2019, at Koninklijk Theater Carré in Amsterdam.
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26June2019
Read moreAUC Capstone Research Seminar 2019
13:45 - 17:30 | Event
The 2019 edition the AUC Capstone Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday, 26 June, in the AUC Common Room. AUC students, staff and other members of the community are invited to attend the presentation rounds ...
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20June2019
Read moreHow did Rabobank change after the crisis?
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
For the past two years, economist Marcel Canoy has been “a fly on the wall” without restrictions at Rabobank and wrote a book about his experience called “De bank van goede bedoelingen” (the bank of good intentions). ...
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12June2019
Read moreScreening Man Made + Q&A with filmmaker Sunny Bergman
19:00 - 21:00 | Lecture
Real men are stoic, never cry and make hard jokes. In Man Made, Sunny Bergman examines the social ideas about masculinity. What is seen as typically male and in which stereotypes does that express itself? And do men ...
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11June2019
Read moreDisinformation & Democracy
18:30 - 20:00 | Lecture
Today, debates about public issues play out on social media, people receive their news via digital platforms and politicians pitch their policies using this same media. The internet is our new public square, however, ...
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15May2019
Read moreRwanda 25 years later
15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture
Exactly 25 years ago, the world witnessed the tragedy of the Rwandan genocide where 800,000 people were killed in the span of only 3 months. 50 years after the establishment of the United Nations, which vowed “to ...