Previous Who's in Town lectures

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...