🚨 AISSR Lecture Series kick-off! 𝟭𝟳 𝗢𝗰𝘁 | 𝟭𝟰:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬 With @juliango.bsky.social on how imperialism & colonialism shaped today’s militarized policing in the US & UK. Aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe (Urban Geograhpy) Open to students, researchers & the public Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Nederlandse jongeren voelen zich vaak niet gehoord door politici. Vanochtend sprak ik met @nporadio1.bsky.social over hoe politici, ouders en scholen hun kijk op politiek en democratie beïnvloeden, én hoe we ze meer gehoord kunnen laten voelen. nos.nl/artikel/2582...

New report by @hannems.bsky.social, @bexxxie.bsky.social & @emilijajok.bsky.social on webcam sex work reveals poor protections & calls for change. 🧾 Read their report here ➡️ www.plexxxi.org/report 📰 And the (Dutch) interview in @nrc.nl 👇 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

👩‍🎓 Great news! Kristine Krause is now Professor of Anthropology of Health & Care 🎉 Kristine’s research tackles one of today’s biggest challenges: how to meet the growing need for care in aging societies while fewer people are available to provide it. 🔗Read more: aissr.uva.nl/shared/facul...

Good luck to Merve Aygun🍀 Defending her PhD thesis this Wednesday on Istanbul’s middle-class lifestyles, showing how class, politics, and religion intersect in everyday life. Supervised by @janrath.bsky.social & @willemboterman.bsky.social 📅 3 Sept, 14:00 🎥 Watch live: www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚌𝚊 🇯🇲 In Kingston local 'dons' are seen as leaders even though they are linked to crime. Join the hybrid lecture @kitlv.bsky.social on 4 Sept to learn about these 'dons' who support poor communities using their own networks and ties to political parties. @aissr.bsky.social

🚲 Amsterdam is hailed as a cycling paradise, but who gets left out? Join award-winning mobility expert Charles T. Brown - founder of @equiticity.bsky.social - on 5 Sept for a keynote on equity, belonging & mobility justice, co-hosted by @urbancyclinginstitute.org 👉 aissr.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Reminder: you can still submit your abstract for the workshop on Survey Experiments that @bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising @aissr.bsky.social early October. Submission deadline is 27/08/2025 ⬇️

Congratulations @kdpham.bsky.social! 🥳

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social

☀️ Almost summer break, but we’ve got great news: Luc Fransen is appointed Professor of Transnational Governance at the UvA. He'll focus on how civil society, business & governments shape global governance, from labour rights to climate policy. 🌍 Congrats, Luc! aissr.uva.nl/shared/facul...

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Sofia Wickberg (Political Science) on receiving a prestigious NWO VENI grant! Her project, 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗽' 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, explores why digital anti-corruption tools often fall short of their promises 👇 🔗 aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

♻️ Turning low-grade waste into high-value materials. Congrats to Joyeeta Gupta & the ABEL consortium with the €6.7M Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) grant for driving circular bioeconomy forward 🌱👏 hims.uva.nl/content/news...

🎉 Congrats to AISSR & @uva-fmg.bsky.social political scientist Ursula Daxecker & the DeMoCraft team with a €6.6M grant via NWA–ORC! 🙌 With @christianburgers.bsky.social, @shjjacobs.bsky.social (@ascor.bsky.social) @theresakuhn.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) 🔗 aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

📀 We recently found a dusty DVD in the AISSR office: a 15-year-old intro video from our founding days. A nostalgic glimpse of our researchers, early work, piled desks, and projects. And how far we’ve come. Here’s to what’s next! 🥂 #15yrs youtu.be/LAnWAiZoXCc?...

👏 Congrats to cultural sociologist Olga Sezneva on receiving the €400K Dutch Research Council grant for her Contested Objects, Connected Histories (COCH) project on memory, conflict & heritage in the Polish-German borderlands 💐 www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

Sociologist Ashley Mears weighs in on Jeff Bezos’ wedding in @businessinsider.com: “More money in the system = more elaborate ways of showing status.” A new Gilded Age of conspicuous consumption? 💸 www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-...

🏆 Winner of this year's Best Article Prize 🏆 @alschotel.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social use of qualitative text analysis paired with in-depth interviews bring out critical insights into trans symbolic representation in 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 parliaments. Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟 buff.ly/4aKHQv9

🗣️ What does real climate action look like? Join UC Diego Prof Adam Aron (@swaziadam.bsky.social) tomorrow, for a talk on collective action, climate justice & the power of local movements 📅 27 June 🕐 13:00-14:00 🔗 csds.uva.nl/content/even... Hosted by our Centre for Sustainable Development Studies

Vandaag betogen Jan de Vries en ik in de Volkskrant dat effectief dakloosheidsbeleid dakloosheid in al haar vormen moet erkennen. Dat betekent ook urgentiestatus voor al deze groepen, zodat de problemen niet hoeven op te stapelen Hierover debatteert de TK vandaag www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

'Het idee om mensen buiten Europa asiel te laten aanvragen is lovenswaardig als het gaat om veiligheid. Maar het is lastig om het goed en menswaardig uit te voeren', zegt @saskiabonjour.bsky.social over het nieuwe @d66.nl migratieplan. 'Goedbedoeld, maar problematisch'. 🔗 eydaily.nl/politiek/d66...

Erella Grassiani ziet de toekomst somber in nu er oorlog is tussen Israël en Iran. "De Gazanen zullen zien hoe snel de blik van de wereld kan verschuiven naar een ander onderwerp. De weinige aandacht die er voor Gaza was, is nu verschoven naar Iran," zegt ze tegen @rtl.nl www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buite...

Did you know that Asian Anthropology publishes book reviews? In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683... #BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology

👏 Congratulations to @mdgoede.bsky.social, Professor of Politics of Security Cultures, on her €2.5M @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her research 'Colonial Financial Infrastructures', exploring colonial roots of modern finance 💰 🔗 Read more: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

👑 What do King Willem-Alexander & Queen Máxima have in common with violent criminal leaders in Jamaica? In her new book The Rule of Dons, Prof Rivke Jaffe explores how local criminal leaders in Kingston - 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘴 - come to be seen as legitimate political figures. 🔗 www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

👩‍🎓 Wednesday 18 June at 14:00, @zahrarunderkamp.bsky.social defends her thesis 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀. 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀. Supervised by @lizamugge.bsky.social, Daphne v/der Pas & @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social 🎥 Join or watch live: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

📚 Vanavond om 20u presenteert Michiel Stapper zijn nieuwe boek *Contracting with Citizens* in SPUI25. Hoe veranderen burgers de stad wanneer ze als gelijkwaardige contractpartners onderhandelen over de toekomst van hun buurt? 🤝 Aanmelden of livestream 👇 spui25.nl/programma/bu...

👩‍🎓 Tomorrow at 11:00, PhD candidate Shivani Kaul (Anthropology) defends the thesis 'A Tendrel Logic. Growing Humans Otherwise During the Golden 1000 Days in Bhutan'. Supervised by @tinahonjo.bsky.social & @eyatesd.bsky.social. 🍀 Good luck, Shivani! 🎥 Watch live here: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

🏡 Housing inequality among young people is shaped by income and class. Tomorrow at 11:00, Amber Howard defends her PhD thesis 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀. Supervised by Richard Ronald, Rebecca Bentley & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social Watch live 👇 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

👏 Big congrats to Joyeeta Gupta for winning the 2025 Impact Award from Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA)! 💐 A well-earned honor for her global leadership in #climatejustice and #sustainability — even recognized by the UN 🌐 www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

📣 On 6 June, Prof. @anouk-amsterdam.bsky.social gives her inaugural lecture 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 ‘𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲’, reflecting on the power and politics of care, state-citizen relations, and the evolving fabric of social policy in the Netherlands. 🕟 16:30 📍 Aula Amsterdam 🎥 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

We had the great honor of hosting Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social at the Amsterdam Center for Gender & Sexuality this week. We learned about his amazing research on club nights & the book Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution @aissr.bsky.social

🤖 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹–𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁? Watch last week’s highlights from the insightful AISSR Lecture '𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜: 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲' by Futures-Anthropologist Roanne van Voorst & Political Scientist @dmugge.bsky.social 📺 Full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0DT...

🕺🏽The Closure Epidemic: Why are gay bars disappearing? What comes next? Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇 23 May | 15:30 – 17:00 🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...

🔋 Worlds of Lithium is Cristobal Bonelli's anthropological study of the shift from fossil fuel transport to electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries. After 5 yrs, he concludes with a conference (12–13 June) on energy, ecologies, and uneven transitions 👇 worldsoflithium.eu/news/https-w...

👩‍🎓 Tomorrow at 16:00, PhD Mira Burmeister Rudolph defends her dissertation 'A Transnational Social Contract. How a Plurality of Actors Shape the Rights of Indian Low-wage Labor Emigrants along the India-Gulf Cooperation Council Migration Corridor'. Good luck, Mira! 🍀 🎥 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

👩‍🎓 Tomorrow at 10AM, PhD candidate @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social defends the thesis 'Pathways of Entrepreneurial Urban Governance: Spatial Dynamics and Community Politics in Istanbul’s Regeneration'. Supervised by @tunatasankok.bsky.social. 🍀 Good luck, Ebru! 🎥 Watch live: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

🎧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 & 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🎙️ Smart, accessible talk for students and curious minds. This episode, cultural sociologist Kobe de Keere talks about beauty, status & blockchain with @uva.nl prof Ashley Mears & @rachelodwyer.bsky.social pod.link/1533967764/e...

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh: Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

@rowanarundel.bsky.social’s CCS Labour Observatory—AI for creative labour insight, is nominated for the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award 🏆👏 📝 Vote before 12 May! www.ixa.nl/amsia/innova...

I thoroughly enjoyed "Long Live Queer Nightlife" by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and learned a lot (including that sociology suffers from a "joy deficit"). Unfortunately, I can't attend this lecture. But if you are in Amsterdam, you can, and you should.

Housing as a driver of inequality On June 4 (4pm), Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) & Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) present a seminar this topic with profs Rebecca Bentley (Melbourne) & Susan Smith (Cambridge). Join us! Info and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

Last few spots available for next week's AISSR Lecture on Overhyping AI: Assessing the Damage 👇 What is left of AI's promises once real people with real jobs begin using it? How plausible are the stories of AI-driven societal progress once we peek behind the veneer of glossy policy announcements?

Fantastic news! 👏 Joyeeta Gupta is appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (@knaw-nl.bsky.social). 🌍 Thanks to her work, climate justice has become an important topic in the debate on climate change 🔗 Read more: www.knaw.nl/en/news/acad... ⬇️

Looking forward to the next event in the pipeline of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies: "Housing as a driver of inequality", with Rebecca Bentley & Susan Smith on June 4 @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Netherlands warns: mortgage deductions fuel house price rises and debt. AISSR’s @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social says Australia should think twice. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #HousingCrisis #Elections2025 #Australia

📖 On 30 April, @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social (LSE) visit our Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies and present their book 'Born to Rule' —a deep dive into elite power 📚 Join here 👇 amcis.uva.nl/shared/subsi... With @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social & @evazschirnt.bsky.social