Member Profile for AISSR, Amsterdam

Justus Uitermark, professor of Urban Geography
Dr J.L. Uitermark (1978) has been appointed professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

9/11: One event, many meanings
The 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers prompted an intensification of the debate around Islam in the Netherlands, while in the United States they were seen as a brutal disruption of its national security utopia. Is an event like 9/11 always a radical turning point that marks the start of social and political change? Sociologist Thijs van Dooremalen researched the framing of 9/11 in the media, politics and policy of the Netherlands, the United States and France. He will receive his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Wednesday, 11 September 2019.

Prestigious ERC Starting Grants awarded to 10 UvA researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to no fewer than 10 researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The laureates are Marija Bartl, Cristóbal Bonelli, Thomas Buser, Corentin Coulais, Ursula Daxecker, Jana Krause, Thomas Leopold, Crystal McMichael, Bastiaan Rutjens and Franciska de Vries.

Amanda Friessen will be ACES & ARC-GS visiting scholar
Amanda Friessen will be visiting scholar during the academic year of 2019 - 2020. She is invited as collaboration between ARC-GS and the ACES theme groups Diverse Europe, European politics and Society.

Antoine Vauchez is ACES Visiting Scholar
Antoine Vauchez, CNRS Research Professor and Director of the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, will be a Visiting Scholar attached to the ACES Theme Group on Governing Europe from 3-27 September.

In Memoriam André J.F. Köbben (1925 – 2019)
Professor André Köbben died on 13 August at the age of 94.

AISSR awarded four NWO Open Competition grants
Congratulations to Wouter van der Brug, Eric Schliesser (Political Science), Matthijs Kalmijn, and Olav Velthuis (Sociology), who have been awarded a NWO Open Competition grant.