Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility - AMCIS In this talk, Dr Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Tomorrow, we host @miroborn.bsky.social for an AMCIS Seminar on "Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility" where he will critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Info and registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
@aissr.bsky.social

✨ Wij zoeken een nieuwe programmamanager! ✨

Werk je graag verbindend tussen onderzoekers, projecten en subsidiegevers? Ben je sterk in organiseren en communiceren? Solliciteer vóór 19 dec 2025 en kom werken binnen ons domein Sociale Wetenschappen:

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Rahil Roodsaz (43) geeft les over de liefde aan de UvA: ‘Mensen zijn klaar met datingapps, dat hoor ik ook van studenten’ UvA-docent en liefdesonderzoeker Rahil Roodsaz (43) doet antropologisch onderzoek naar langdurige relaties in de Waterlandpleinbuurt in Noord. ‘Ik vraag heel concreet: waar en hoe vindt het liefhebben...

Onderzoek naar liefde & midlife in Amsterdam-Noord 💛
Antropoloog Rahil Roodsaz duikt in de dagelijkse ritmes van stellen (35–60) in *Rhythms of Love*. Hoe verandert liefde als we ouder worden? Persoonlijke, kwetsbare verhalen vol inzicht.

Een interview in @parool.nl: www.parool.nl/ps-van-de-we...

EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures

Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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How Migration Really Works — now as a comic! 📚✨

A 12-page visual summary of @heindehaas.bsky.social' research, created by @blijstift.bsky.social and LOKAAL Rotterdam.

Free to download (in Dutch) or get the print for €9.95 (hello holiday season): www.blijstift.nl/samengevat-i...

❌❌❌ AISSR Harvest Day 2025 | The Social Science of Amsterdam | 4 Dec | CREA

Join our 12th annual gathering on the “harvest” of social science in/with/for Amsterdam.

Keynotes, aftertalks, videos & workshops on urban challenges, methods, and community collaboration.

👉 aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Sneak peek from Renée DiResta’s AISSR Lecture last week: How does social media reshape political power? From performed credibility to fragmented info worlds, her insights hit hard.

Watch the full lecture & aftertalk with @lizamugge.bsky.social ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nshb...

@ascor.bsky.social

‘Omvolking is dé fantasie van radicaal-rechts’ Sarah Bracke | socioloog: Het begrip ‘omvolking’ maakte opmars onder het nazi-regime. Hoogleraar sociologie Sarah Bracke maakt zich zorgen over de normalisering ervan.

In @nrc.nl waarschuwt socioloog Sarah Bracke voor de normalisering van het begrip ‘omvolking’, centraal in radicaal-rechtse frames over islam en migratie. Haar team toont hoe moslims als “vreemd lichaam” worden neergezet.

Presentatie 13 nov: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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...

Opinie: ‘Goed dat er meer vrouwen in de Tweede Kamer zijn verkozen, maar echte inclusiviteit gaat over meer dan dat’ Dat er bij de laatste Tweede Kamerverkiezingen meer vrouwen dan ooit zijn verkozen is goed nieuws, maar ook slechts een begin, stellen onderzoekers Zahra Runderkamp en Liza Mügge in dit opiniestuk. In...

Meer vrouwen in de Kamer is goed nieuws, maar inclusiviteit gaat verder dan zetelaantallen, schrijven @zahrarunderkamp.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social in @parool.nl

Het gaat óók om wie kan blijven, zich veilig voelt en ruimte krijgt om politiek werk te doen.

🔗 www.parool.nl/columns-opin...

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 🙏

EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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...

Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates - AMCIS In this talk at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies, Dr. Teresa Völker will present findings from her research on the mainstreaming of the far right and how far-right actors and ideas shape pu...

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...

Plaatjes van de electoraatjes 2025: de PVV - StukRoodVlees Op 29 oktober zijn er verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer. In deze serie gaan wij aan de hand van een aantal grafieken in op de vraag wie de kiezers van de vijftien grootste partijen volgens de peilinge...

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)

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Vidi grants for 25 UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers - AISSR The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 25 talented researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam UMC (AMC location). The Vidi funding amounts to a maximum of €8...

🎉 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...

Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns Politicians frequently sponsor misinformation during election campaigns, but its effectiveness in shifting voters' policy preferences and beliefs rema…

🚨🚨🚨 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
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💠 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
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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 ⬇️

Protest, polarisation and political violence: where do we draw the line? Why does political violence occur in a democracy? Professor Ursula Daxecker explains how protest and division can lead to threats and tension within society.

🗳️ Democracies depend on disagreement — but what happens when it turns violent?

Ursula Daxecker studies political violence within democracies.

Read more 👇
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@jpeaceresearch.bsky.social article: tinyurl.com/4ms3nyta

Tackling wicked problems through street-level diplomacy: the case of antimicrobial stewardship in Northern Europe Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be considered a wicked problem because the phenomenon is characterised by multiple, interdependent factors, functio…

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

Gijs Schumacher appointed professor of Political Psychology - AISSR Dr Gijs Schumacher has been appointed Professor of Political Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He studies how emotions influence democracy and help explain political decision-making.

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👏 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