The Call for Papers for our #Conference for Social Sciences 2024 is now open!📢

Submit your abstract by June 28, 18:00 CEST!

We are pleased to announce that the confirmed keynote speaker is The #NobelPrize winning Economist Guido Imbens.
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Congrats to political scientists Johan Olsthoorn & Philip Schleifer on the NWO Funding OC XS grant! 1-year projects on 'Regenerative Capitalism' & 'Human Rights and the Ethics of Compulsory Prison Labour', that quickly contribute to scientific insights 💡
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“Gemeenten zijn constant aan het traineren.”

De wachttijd voor woonwagenplekken is in veel gemeenten te lang. In Den Haag heeft de rechter nu besloten dat het sneller moet. Politiek geograaf Dominic Teodorescu legt de kern van het probleem uit in Trouw 👇go.uva.nl/3yDqRfk

Job Alert Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
🔸Research Assistant for Push*Back*Lash (from June 15, 2024, to December 31, 2025)
🔸Background in Sociology or Political Science
🔸Knowledge of/interest in gender studies/feminist scholarship
🔸Deadline for application: 31 May 2024
More information below 👇

🇪🇺 Nearly 1 in 5 EU candidates with a serious chance of becoming a member of parliament after the European elections, has been involved in a scandal at some point. Political scientist Prof. Sarah de Lange explains how this is possible:

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In the run-up to next week’s EU elections, Simon Otjes and I launch ‘European Electorates Explored.’ In this series, we'll dive into the voter bases of the different groups in the European Parliament. What did we find? #thread
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⁉️Voor een Q&A-sessie van Nu.nl beantwoordde antropoloog Erella Grassiani uitgebreid vragen van lezers over de Gaza-oorlog: go.uva.nl/4dYlY0v

Are you in Amsterdam on July 2? Come along for my #CallingFamily book launch! I'm grateful to have my editor Lenore Manderson, Jeannette Pols, @[email protected] and Roanne van Voorst on board.

Sponsored by Global Digital Cultures AISSR stefania milan 🙏

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Just in time for #EP2024 Zhen Im, Janine Leschke and I published a special issue Social Policy & Admi nistration on the obstacles and opportunities for welfare policy on the EU level with 9 articles 🇪🇺 Thanks to all contributors! ⭐️
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We're excited to announce a guest lecture on 'The Role of Mental Models in Addressing Sustainability Challenges' by Karlijn van den Broek Dr Karlijn van de Broek

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19
📍 Location: REC B2.10, University of Amsterdam
🕒 Time: 12:00-13:00
📩Register: [email protected]

Research from the EVaP European Research Council (ERC) project out in the wild! Great to see Maureen present her PhD project on rents, subnational incumbents, and violence in Nigeria AISSR UvA Political Science UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag

Proud to announce the next AISSR Lecture, by Mario L. Small on 'The Data Revolution and the Study of Social Inequality: Promise and Perils'!

🗓️ 20 June
⏲️ 15:30 - 17:00
📍 CREA Music Hall, UvA Amsterdam

Learn more & register 👇

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💡 Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart homes. Smart cities. The imperative to make our world smarter in the face of increasingly complex challenges raises several questions: what is this 'smartness mandate'?

Join next week's talk by author Orit Halpern 👇

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The phenomenon of so-called 'tradwives' (short for 'traditional wives') is rapidly taking over social media like TikTok and Instagram.

UvA scientists Irene I. van Driel, Dr. Sarah Bracke, and Liza Mügge explain this development in a social and political context👇go.uva.nl/4brhvBV

Benieuwd hoe inwoners van stad en platteland verschillen in politieke opvattingen, of dit is toegenomen, en hoe dit in NL verschilt van andere landen? Op Sociale Vraagstukken schreef ik een korte bijdrage met de belangrijkste conclusies uit mijn proefschrift👇
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Met duiding van Koen Vossen en yours truly: Is de PVV radicaal-rechts of extreemrechts? En waarom is dat verschil belangrijk? nos.nl/l/2521526 via Nieuwsuur

Tomorrow at 11, Hester Booi will defend the thesis 'Staying in the city or moving to the suburbs: changes and variations in residential mobility and impacts on metropolitan areas'. Supervised by Sako Musterd & Willem Boterman.

Good luck, Hester! 🍀👩‍🎓

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Worldwide news media face growing pressure from autocrats to report favorably on their leaders and politics.

Political scientists Hennes Barnehl and Gijs Schumacher have launched a new computational method to detect real-time media censorship by states.

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