Abram DE SWAAN: “How Ordinary are ‘Ordinary Perpetrators’? Notes on the Genocidal Mentality”, IEA de Paris, 10 may 2017
"The Brains that pull the Triggers - 3rd Paris Conference on Syndrome E": international conference convened by Itzhak Fried (Paris IAS / UCLA / Tel Aviv University) and Alain Berthoz (Collège de France), with the support of the Région Ile de France within the framework of the DIM Cerveau et Pensée, and the American University...
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Abram de Swaan: Rightists’ and Jihadists’ Reactions to Women’s Emancipation, Norbert Elias Conference, Global Interdependencies, 5 december 2018.
Abstract: The extreme and ‘alternative’ right are increasingly present on the internet and more and more also in extreme rightwing parties and in militant groups. Jihadist groups such as ISIS have suffered severe defeat but have by no means disappeared. Although the Islamists and the rightists hate each other passionately, they agree on quite a...
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Abram de Swaan ‘The uses of Freud for social science: a personal account’, AISSR Great Thinkers Series, University of Amsterdam, 20 november, 2018
Anthropologists and sociologists usually quote Sigmund Freud’s works on culture, religion and art, civilization and its discontents being the most important among them. But Freud was, of course, also a practician who applied his own invention, ’the talking cure’: psychoanalytic therapy. And he was one of the great connaisseurs of the human psyche. These more...
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Abram de Swaan, “How Ordinary are ‘Ordinary Perpetrators’? Notes on the Genocidal Mentality”, IEA de Paris, 10 may 2017
“The Brains that pull the Triggers – 3rd Paris Conference on Syndrome E”: international conference convened by Itzhak Fried (Paris IAS / UCLA / Tel Aviv University) and Alain Berthoz (Collège de France), with the support of the Région Ile de France within the framework of the DIM Cerveau et Pensée, and the American University...
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Are Poor People Enough of a Nuisance? -Abram de Swaan. SASNET Conference, 21 May 2015
Professor Abram de Swaan from University of Amsterdam held a keynote presentation at SASNET Conference on the Structural Transformation of South Asia on 21 May 2015. His presentation was entitled: ”Are Poor People Enough of a Nuisance? Changing Elite Perceptions of the Poor on the National and the Global Scale". View the presentation...
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