Previous Who's in Town lectures
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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.
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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 ...