𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧? Join us Sun 23 Nov, 14:00 at SPUI25 for a rare event with Achille Mbembe - one of today’s most influential thinkers - alongside our anthropologists Peter Geschiere, Rachel Spronk & Francio Guadeloupe Info & registration: aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...

Reminder: next Wednesday we host @tevoelker.bsky.social at the AMCIS Seminar who will talk on the Far Right, with our colleagues Jaron Harambam and @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social as discussants. ⬇️ More info + registration below @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Congrats to @mrooduijn.bsky.social, new Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science at @uva.nl! 🎓 As part of his chair, he’s launching a Centre for Transdisciplinary Social Science to tackle polarisation, inequality & climate change by bridging science and society 🌍 www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

Honored that our video from the recent AISSR lecture by @juliango.bsky.social was selected as video of the week by @the-syllabus.bsky.social! Thanks for highlighting our work 🙏

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel: The ‘New North’: Implications for Justice in Global Development 📍 @iobua.bsky.social Conv. by Maggi Leung, Karen Paiva Henrique & S. Shakthi (@aissr.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Why are today’s police forces so militarized, and what does empire have to do with it? Sociologist @juliango.bsky.social (University of Chicago) explored this in his AISSR Lecture on policing, imperialism & racialization 🎥 Full lecture & aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXtO...

Upcoming AMCIS Seminar: On 12 Nov. @tevoelker.bsky.social talks about "Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates" - just 2 weeks after the Dutch elections! Info & Registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... @aissr.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Join us on 6 Nov for the AISSR Lecture by Renee DiResta, @noupside.bsky.social, author of the book 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴. On how social media reshapes power & politics. Co-hosted by @ascor.bsky.social ➡️ Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Vandaag de laatste aflevering van onze serie “plaatjes van de electoraatjes” op de blog Stuk Rood Vlees. @simonotjes.bsky.social en ik gaan in op de achterban van de PVV. Passen de opvattingen van de PVV-kiezer goed bij de partijideologie? (1/6) stukroodvlees.nl/plaatjes-van...

🎉 Proud to share that Rowan Arundel & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social receive the prestigious NWO Vidi grants, worth €850,000! Their projects HOU-EQUAL & DWELLWELL explore how housing shapes social & health inequalities across Europe. Huge congrats both! 👏 Read more: aissr.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

🎬 Our Social Science Cinema returns 🍿 With 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘺: a moving documentary about former Israeli & Palestinian combatants choosing nonviolence together. 📅 30 Oct 🕑 19:30-22:00 📍 CREA With live Q&A from the co-founders of Combatants for Peace 🕊 Register now: aissr.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

🚨🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨🚨 Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns, co-authored with U Daxecker, and published in the @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Is misinformation an effective campaign tool — or just noise? See 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today at the Shifting States conference with @easainfo.bsky.social: Keynote by Alice von Bieberstein (HU Berlin) on Disavowed enemies: the criminalization of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and Germany’s contradictory war on terror. 16:00 | REC A1.03 & online www.craftingresilience.nl/actueel/shif...

💠 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆: 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 💠 A unique chance to hear @abaswedan.bsky.social reflect on what keeps democracy alive beyond elections - hope, integrity & imagination. With @yatunsastra.bsky.social 🗓️ 27 Oct | 14:30 🔗 aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Small reminder for today's kick-off of our 2025-2026 AISSR lecture series! We warmly welcome @juliango.bsky.social on stage for a lecture on Militarized Policing and the Imperial Boomerang in the US and Britain. CREA Hall open at 14.15, start at 14.30 ⬇️

🗳️ Democracies depend on disagreement — but what happens when it turns violent? Ursula Daxecker studies political violence within democracies. Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/ycx3fnhk @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social article: tinyurl.com/4ms3nyta

Really happy to see this paper out! 🥳 It was such a pleasure to work with Matthew McKenna, Nicola Gale, Patrick Brown and Hanna Bradby on this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #amr #antimicrobialstewardship @aissr.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations to @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, who has been appointed Professor of Political Psychology! 🎓 🧠 'Politics is emotion. Emotions influence how we think about politics and the decisions we make. The scientific challenge is to unravel the interplay between democracy and emotions.'

Why do women still hold less wealth than men—even under egalitarian laws? 💰 Join @sibylleglk.bsky.social's talk on *The Gender of Capital* 📅 Oct 13 | 🕒 15:30 👉 Register here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... With @evazschirnt.bsky.social, Ivana Isailović & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social

Waarom Nederland volgens Jan Willem Duyvendak niet zo gepolariseerd is als we denken

And our AMCIS survey experiments workshop is a wrap! Two great and intense days with lots of exiting survey experimental designs and projects being presented + two great keynotes 😀 Thanks everyone for coming to Amsterdam @aissr.bsky.social

Political scientist @lizamugge.bsky.social is nominated for the Joke Smit Prize 2025 for her pioneering research on gender, politics & inclusion. Congrats, Liza! 🎉 Winners announced on 3 Nov by stage secretary Koen Becking. www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieu...

🚨 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...