NEWSLETTER OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
volume 1 | issue 4 | 2 April 2009

GSSS News

Deans' message to all GSSS students
As Shakespeare said, you may ask yourself: what's in a name? "Graduate school", what does that mean for me? >>

Call for participants in academy assistant programme
If you are a well-motivated student with the ambition to actively participate in a research programme, you might want to consider a position as an Academy Assistant >>

Internship

Internship with Organization of American States
Apply for internship during the Fall of 2009 >>

Summer internships at Scholars at Risk (SAR)
SAR is an international network of universities dedicated to promoting academic freedom and defending the human rights of scholars worldwide. Summer interships available >>

Links

Graduate School of Social Sciences >>

Student Advisory Panel >>
SAP's Messageboard - announcements for the international students of the GSSS

Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen >>

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences >>

International Student Network >>

CREA >>

Amsterdam >>

Online journals

Amsterdam Social Science Journal >>

Blind - Interdisciplinair tijdschrift >>

Lectures / conferences / debates

The New Globalisation for Progressive Change
2 and 3 April- Challenge the views of conservatives and neo-liberals and join the event of the 2009 with leading personalities from politics, international institutions, trade unions, academia and civil society >>

ASSR Staff Seminar
7 April - Brian Burgoon on 'Globalization is What Parties Make of It: Welfare and Protectionism in Party Platforms' >>

The First 100 Days: Barack Obama, Inspiration for the Netherlands and Europe?
16 April - A round-table dialogue with students, international scholars and Dutch and American officials >>

Trade-Off - Building Africa
21 April - Music and debate about development aid and youth entrepeneurship (in English) >>

Foreign Policy Practices and Energy Security: What drives US, EU and China
24 April - Lecture within the Energy Programme Asia Lecture Series 2009 >>

International Conflict Conference
18 May - Prevention of and response to mass atrocity crimes, what did we learn? >>

BRIGHT Students Conference in Milano
27-30 August - Ten UvA students can participate in the BRIGHT Students Conference on 'Food & Water: an Increasing Challenge' in Milano, Italy. Application deadline 9 April >>

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