Previous Who's in Town lectures
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31Mar2020
Read more[CANCELLED] Decolonizing sexuality, disrupting epistemologies, shattering the subject
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this event has been cancelled due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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24Mar2020
Read more[CANCELLED] Who becomes a 'victim' and how?
18:00 - 21:00 | Lecture
In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this event has been cancelled due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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19Mar2020
Read more[CANCELLED] Who is ‘the perpetrator’?
18:00 - 21:00 | Lecture
In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this event has been cancelled due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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17Mar2020
Read more[CANCELLED] The Return of the Native: Dutch nativism and the emotional turn in politics and social science
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this event has been cancelled due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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16Mar2020
Read more[CANCELLED] AUC Logic Lectures: Ulle Endriss on Judgment Aggregation
18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture
In following the policy of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this event has been cancelled due to recent measures being implemented to prevent the further spreading of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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12Mar2020
Read moreSocial groups in conflict
18:00 - 21:00 | Lecture
In this introductory first lecture of the "Making sense of mass violence" seminar series on social groups in conflict, the following questions will be addressed: how do social conflicts become violent? How does ...
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28Feb2020
Read moreThe role of emotions in intergroup relations
12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture
Emotions are not just individual states of minds, but essentially take form in social relations. Emotions express the motivation to relate to others in specific ways, as in avoiding, derogating, attacking, admiring ...
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05Feb2020
Read moreWhat everyone should know about climate change
16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture
Amidst the barrage of conflicting information, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of climate change. Some claim it’s wildly overblown, others call it a catastrophe. In his Dutch book ‘Wat iedereen zou ...
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04Feb2020
Read moreAnnual Alpbach Lecture - The joint challenge of gloom and prosperity
18:00 - 20:00 | Lecture
So much progress, and yet so much gloom, as we struggle to make sense of the future. Not a time for easy answers, but very good reasons to reflect on what our priorities for the next decade ought to be.
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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 ...