Previous Speakers:
2019/3: Eva Illouz, University of Jerusalem
Does Capitalism Erode Democracy?
2019/2: Wolfgang Streeck, University of Cologne
The International State System after Neoliberalism
2019/1: Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Karl Polanyi and Globalization’s Wrong Turn
2018: Valentin Groebner, Universität Luzern
Reden wir über Reinheit
2017: Stephen Kotkin, Princeton
Sphere of Influence
2016: Rosa Brooks, Georgetown
The Future of War
2015: Timothy Snyder, Yale / Vienna
Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future
2014: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chicago
The Climate Question
2013: Jan Werner Mueller, Princeton
We the People: On Populism and Democracy
2012: Peter Brown, Princeton
‘For the Ransom of the Soul’
Wealth, Death and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
2010: Vincent Descombes, Paris
Puzzling Identities
Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomenon of Identity Crisis
2006: Claus Offe, Berlin
Soziale Macht: Formen, Kontrolle und Nutzen
2004: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Warsaw
On Others
2003: Abraham B. Yehoshua, Haifa
The Shaping of Jewish Identity
Three Bible Stories
2002: Cornelia Klinger, Tübingen / Vienna
“Nicht nach dem Maße des Menschen gebaut”
Der verlorene Ort des Subjekts im System der modernen Gesellschaft
2001: Paul Ricoeur, Paris
The Process of Recognition
2000: Charles Taylor, Montreal
The Varieties of Religion Today:
William James Revisited after 100 Years