Previous Who's in Town lectures
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15Apr2019
Read moreAUC Logic Lectures: Maria Aloni
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
Formal semantics investigates natural language meanings using tools from formal logic.
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11Mar2019
Read moreAUC Logic Lectures: Rens Bod
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
The central theme of my lecture is the way in which scholars throughout the ages have sought to identify reasoning patterns in disciplines like philology, art theory, musicology, linguistics, literary theory and ...
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11Mar2019
Read moreCristina Calabró: The role of the European Commission in shaping EU migration policy
12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture
Among the most pressing contemporary issues facing the EU is that of managing migration in an increasingly complex world and tackling security threats, which are more and more transnational.
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07Mar2019
Read moreEnsuring quality healthcare for the future
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
In recent public policy history, few topics have been as politically pressing and divisive as the topic of how governments choose to ensure their citizen’s health.
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07Mar2019
Read moreThe potential of participatory action research for migration and youth
15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture
Dr. Nicolina Montesano Montessori, an Associate Professor at the Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Research Center for Learning and Innovation, will be presenting a particular model of participatory ...
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07Feb2019
Read moreThe last woman standing
18:30 - 20:00 | Lecture
The protagonist of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film 'Aquarius' (2016), a respected music journalist and author, is thrown into a condition of sudden and acute precarity when pressured to evacuate her long-time home as a ...
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07Feb2019
Read moreTransgender in the Netherlands. An extraordinary history (1950s – present)
18:30 - 20:00 | Lecture
While in the fifties and sixties transgender people still had to be grateful if a psychiatrist did not institutionalise them or administer electroshock treatment, nowadays transgender people are often seen as ...
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05Feb2019
Read moreWalking Atomic Vegas: Ritual, Memorial and Toxic Landscapes
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
As part of a larger conversation around memorial design, this presentation proposes the use of ritualised walking to mark and remember invisible threats and the “slow violence” of contaminated landscapes undergoing ...
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28Jan2019
Read moreHow can institutions effectively respond to racism?
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
As universities and other institutions are trying to creating respectful, inclusive and diverse environments, they should have clear methods on how to acknowledge racism and effectively respond to racist behaviour. ...
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10Dec2018
Read moreTime’s Habits & Practising Relaxation
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
This lecture presents the notion of practising, as a mode which, by reinflecting habit via an intentional repetition, gives access to registers of temporality beyond that of the dominant mode of the present. Habit ...
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10Dec2018
Read moreAUC Logic Lectures: Logic, the Art of Walking at Interfaces
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
Our walk starts with quantifier expressions like "all", "some" which underlie both ordinary language and the mathematical language of science. We look at the history of logical systems for quantifiers, flagging some ...
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10Dec2018
Read moreIslam in Russia: a centrifugal force, or an anchor of social and political stability?
12:30 - 13:45 | Lecture
This seminar discusses the Kremlin’s use of Islam as a pillar of national identity, against Islam as a destructive force. How is Islam organised in the Russian Federation, what is the function of Russia’s Muftiates? ...
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28Nov2018
Read moreConceptualisation of Integration at Multiple Levels with a focus on the Dutch Case
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
Integration is a concept, process, set of policies and practices that are closely linked to migration and the adaptation and incorporation of immigrants in receiving countries. Considered to be a two way process, ...
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27Nov2018
Read moreA Dutch National Cinema?
19:00 - 20:30 | Lecture
Are you curious about contemporary Dutch films? Would you like to learn more about filmmaking in the Netherlands and the Dutch Film Fund? In this guest lecture, Dutch filmmaker Coen Haver shares his views on the ...
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21Nov2018
Read moreFrom Pause to Play
19:00 - 21:00 | Lecture
This lecture and workshop will present the best practices stemming from understanding how asylum seekers deal with uncertainty and passivity while waiting for the outcomes of their International Protection Procedures ...
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15Nov2018
Read moreThe Classics between Canterbury and Bukhara: The different classical traditions of the medieval world
18:00 - 19:30 | Lecture
The legacy of ancient Greco-Roman thought is traditionally approached from both a modern and a Eurocentric point of view. Ancient Greece and Rome are then anachronistically considered to be ‘Western’ and to be ...
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14Nov2018
Read moreWhat just happened in Brazil?!
12:30 - 14:30 | Lecture
Brazil’s 2018 presidential elections received a great deal of attention in international media. The victory of Jair Bolsonaro, infamous for his racist, classist, misogynist and LGBTQI-phobic statements, has been ...
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08Nov2018
Read moreAUC Logic Lectures: Rise and Fall of the Fregean Empire
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
What are numbers? What makes mathematical truths true? How do we acquire mathematical knowledge? These are the core issues every foundationalist programme for mathematics must resolve. We look at Frege’s programme, ...
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07Nov2018
Read moreScientists’ warning to humanity - climate change, ecosystem collapse and unsustainable global politics
16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture
We are aggressively violating the limits of Earth in the pursuit of financial wealth to maintain economic growth at all costs, even threatening life itself. Despite greater public awareness of the dangers, our ...
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01Nov2018
Read moreCelebration of the Days of the Dead at AUC
19:00 - 21:30 | 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 ...