Previous events and lectures

Previous events and lectures held at AUC.

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  • 07Oct2019

    The 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

    Amsterdam 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

    Lustrum 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

    Dies 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

    AUC Introduction Week: August 2019

    Event

    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

    Graduation 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

    AUC 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

    How 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

    Screening 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

    Disinformation & 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

    Speeding up the energy transition – more action needed

    15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture

    The Dutch Urgenda Foundation aims for a fast transition towards a sustainable society with a focus on the transition towards a circular economy using only renewable energy. Urgenda views climate change as one of the ...

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  • 15May2019

    Rwanda 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 ...

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  • 14May2019

    The rise and decline of national habitus: Dutch cycling

    18:00 - 19:30 | Lecture

    This lecture takes Dutch cycling culture as a paradigmatic example of non-state-led national similarity.

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  • 07May2019

    Tatiana Afanassjewa (1876-1964): no talent for subservience

    12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture

    The name Paul Ehrenfest will sound familiar to many Dutch physicists. But who was Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa?

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  • 03May2019

    What does academia mean to you?

    12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture

    Try to visualise a scientist or professor. It could very well be that you immediately visualised a white, middle-aged man. According to Ingeborg van der Ven this can, and has to, change. During her lecture, she will ...

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  • 30Apr2019

    A Hybrid Self: Seeing and Playing Oneself in Documentary Film

    18:30 - 20:00 | Lecture

    This talk explores the processes of seeing oneself in a film and enacting oneself for one, which I refer to as filmic self-perception and self-enactment. In the former, one is confronted with their own bodily ...

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  • 15Apr2019

    AUC Logic Lectures: Maria Aloni

    18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture

    Formal semantics investigates natural language meanings using tools from formal logic.

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  • 10Apr2019

    AUC Student Experience Day: April 2019

    14:00 - 17:00 | Information event

    Curious about a day in the life of an AUC student? Student experience days are meant to give prospective students the opportunity to get a sense for what it feels like to be a student at AUC, both in and out of the ...

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  • 05Apr2019 07Apr2019

    AUC Model United Nations Conference 2019

    Conference

    Amsterdam University College will be the host venue for delegates from all over the world when the Amsterdam University College Model United Nations (AUCMUN) Conference takes place from 5-7 April 2019. Organised by ...

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  • 23Mar2019

    TEDxAUCollege: Upside Down

    12:30 - 18:00 | Event

    TEDxAUCollege will host their 2019 conference on Saturday, 23 March with the theme of "Upside Down."

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