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Previous Who's in Town lectures
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Results: 1 - 20 of 286
“Freedom in Quarantine” Book Launch
4 Jul 2020
16:00 - 16:45
Lecture
The pandemic confronts us with big questions about ourselves and our society. Can philosophy offer enlightenment? This book gives insight into the wisdom of ages on being a free human being. It proposes a way to ...
[CANCELLED] Emotion management in the civilizing (and compartmentalizing) process
6 Apr 2020
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).
[CANCELLED] Who becomes a 'bystander'?
2 Apr 2020
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).
[CANCELLED] Who becomes a 'victim' and how?
24 Mar 2020
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).
[CANCELLED] Who is ‘the perpetrator’?
19 Mar 2020
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).
[CANCELLED] The Return of the Native: Dutch nativism and the emotional turn in politics and social science
17 Mar 2020
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).
[CANCELLED] AUC Logic Lectures: Ulle Endriss on Judgment Aggregation
16 Mar 2020
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).
Social groups in conflict
12 Mar 2020
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 ...
The role of emotions in intergroup relations
28 Feb 2020
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 ...
What everyone should know about climate change
5 Feb 2020
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 ...
Annual Alpbach Lecture - The joint challenge of gloom and prosperity
4 Feb 2020
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.
Numbers and stories: interdisciplinary research in fisheries management
27 Nov 2019
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 ...
AUC Logic Lectures: Logic and Information Flow
11 Nov 2019
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 ...
The Future of Animal-Friendly Food
7 Nov 2019
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 ...
The threat of nuclear weapons and what you can do about it
6 Nov 2019
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 ...
Celebration of the Days of the Dead at AUC
5 Nov 2019
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 ...
Deeply felt affect: understanding emotions through deep active inference
1 Nov 2019
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 ...
The micro-sociology of violent situations
7 Oct 2019
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 ...
How did Rabobank change after the crisis?
20 Jun 2019
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). ...
Screening Man Made + Q&A with filmmaker Sunny Bergman
12 Jun 2019
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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