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17 April 2006
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Do you feel Dutch or Moroccan? Jewish or not? Anne-Ruth Wertheim discusses why we should refrain from posing the loyalty question.
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| 18 January 2006
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Do democracies in Latin America have to reinvent themselves to maintain workable mechanisms for representation and control? Professor Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil, will address this and other questions in his lecture on Latin American democracies.
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| 07 December 2005
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On December 7, 2005, the John Adams Institute hosts a lecture by American sociologist Amitai Etzioni.
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Radio and television journalists like to think of themselves as objective conveyors of different points of view. But the method they use to interview people promotes the division in society.
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| 10 March 2005
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A recent report of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) documents widespread intolerance, aggressive political rhetoric and discrimination against Muslims in Europe.
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Racism is changing, manifesting itself in more dangerous ways than in the past.
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| 10 February 2005
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Lecture by Anthony Heath, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. The lecture will report initial results from a cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in labour markets, including Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, the USA and Canada.
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| 28 January 2005
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Why has the veil become such a hotly debated issue today - after more than a millennium of encounters between West and East in which the veil played at best a marginal role?
Dr. Markha Valenta, Researcher in Contemporary History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, debates this issue with Prof. Veit Bader, Chair in Sociology and Philosophy.
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On November 2, Dutch film-maker and polemicist Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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| 23 November 2003
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Conference ‘Ten Years of Southern Africa’s Quest for Democratisation and Political Governance’, November 23 - 25, 2003
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