The Council of Young Scientists of the Faculty of Sociology (St. Petersburg State University) in cooperation with the Center for German and European Studies (St. Petersburg State University—Bielefeld University), supported by DAAD, are glad to announce a Russian-European competition of research papers by young scientists interested in comparative Russian-European studies. Winners will receive a prize of up to more »

Workshop with Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Political Thought with the generous support of ACCESS Europe Abstract This workshop addresses the history of the rise, over the course of the twentieth century but especially in the Cold War period, of interconnected law, more »

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Graag vragen wij uw aandacht voor de bijzondere Master Class voor masterstudenten en promovendi onder leiding van de bekende politicoloog Karl-Rudolf Korte op 19 mei van 9.30 tot 12.00 uur in het Bushuis, zaal F 2.11 B, Kloveniersburgwal 48 te Amsterdam. Thema is: Regieren in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, Emotionen und Politik im Wahljahr 2017 im deutsch-niederländischen more »

Quentin Skinner will deliver the keynote at the Workshop Freedom: Liberalism, Republicanism and Beyond. This workshop is organized by the Amsterdam Centre for Political Thought in honour of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Professor Skinner’s seminal work Liberty Before Liberalism. The lecture is free and open to the public; registration is required. Seats more »

In recent years intellectual history has re-established itself as a distinct and vital field of scholarship which focusses on the social and cultural contexts of thought as well as to language, rhetoric, and meaning. This is to no small extent thanks to Quentin Skinner, who has propagated the so-called ‘contextualist method’ as the gold standard more »

Abstract The world faces serious problems that require global solutions. Climate change is the most obvious, but by no means the only one of these problems. Therefore the ethical imperative to strengthen forms of global governance has not changed. Yet, recent elections have shown that moving ahead with globalization poses the danger of an electoral more »

Op 2 juni organiseert het DIA een Graduiertenkolleg met als thema Transcultural Mediations: European Heritage and Identity Discourses in the long 20th Century, met onder meer Tetiana Mykhalchuk (DIA), George Grabowicz (Harvard) en Michael Wintle (UvA), in samenwerking met ARTES, voor meer informatie (https://duitslandinstituut.nl/actueel-programma) en aanmelding Christina Morina: c.morina@uva.nl