Previous Who's in Town lectures
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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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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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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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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 ...
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15May2019
Read moreSpeeding 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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14May2019
Read moreThe 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
Read moreTatiana 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
Read moreWhat 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
Read moreA 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
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.