Hi everyone,

This Friday (May 8^th) from 15:00 – 16:00 we will have another online lab meeting! We are excited to have Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) as our guest. He will talk about “Community, Consent and Conflict in COVID-19: In this discussion I shall argue that the formation of a sense of shared identity and collectivity is quite central to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when does solidarity and mutual support give way to division, conflict and social disorder? These are key questions, and how we come through the pandemic depends on understanding the answers.”

The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and everybody is welcome to join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/839478901 at 3pm (CET). This is the same link we use every Friday.

Below the program of next week:  

• May 15^th – Gordon Pennycook: In this session of the Online Hot Politics Lab, Gordon Pennycook (U Regina) will present work on the predictors of covid attitudes and behaviors as well as the work on correcting misinformation is very relevant to understand the corona-crisis. Please note that this session is scheduled from 4pm - 5pm!

If you missed any of the previous online hot politics lab meetings, or just want to watch them again, you can find all video and audio recordings of our last online meetings in our Online Hot Politics Lab Meetings archive here.  

Hope to “see” you all Friday!

Maaike Homan

PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

University of Amsterdam

Room B10.01