2025: Hartmut Rosa
Lecture title: Is a resonant society possible?
2024: Donatella della Porta
Lecture title: Conspiracies, Pandemic and the Far Right: the Anti-Vax Protests as Regressive Forms of Contention
2023: Gurminder K. Bhambra
Lecture title: Empires and Nations: Or, A Political Economy of Colonialism.
2019: Andrew Abbott (video recording)
Lecture title: "Facts and Values: A Processual View".
2018: Patricia Hill Collins
Lecture title: "Intersectionality, Unequal Citizenship & Political Solidarity".
2017: Michèle Lamont
Lecture title: "Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel".
2015: Cass Sunstein (video recording)
Lecture title: "Fifty Shades of Manipulation" and "Extremism and Free Speech"
2015: Luc Boltanski
Lecture title: “Mysteries and conspiracies: detective stories, spy novels and the making of modern societies” and "On critique"
2013: Craig Calhoun (video recording)
Lecture title: "Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response" and "The Public Sphere and its Problems”
2013: Jeffrey Alexander (video recording)
Lecture title: "Struggling over the Mode of Incorporation: The Backlash against Multiculturalism in Europe"
2011: Anthony Giddens (video recording)
Lecture title: "The Future of Social Democracy"
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2010: Hans Joas (video recording)
Lecture title: "The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse" and "Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline? Some empirically based reflections"
2009: Kathleen Thelen
Lecture title: "Inequality and social solidarity?"
2007: Nilüfer Göle
Lecture title: Islam challenges social science: revisiting private-Public
2006: Nancy Fraser
Lecture title: "Reframing justice in a globalizing world" and "Abnormal Justice"
2005: Steven Lukes
Lecture title: "Questions about power: Lessons from the Louisiana Hurricane" and "Power and Domination"
2004: Howard S. Becker
Lecture title: "How much is enough?" and "Careers"
2003: Richard Swedberg
Lecture title: "To Die for Others: Civic Heroism and Auguste Rodin's "Burghers of Calais" (pdf) and "Conflicts of interest in the corporate scandals of 2001-2002"
2002: Neil J. Smelser
Lecture title: "September 11 as Cultural Trauma in the United States" and "Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice"
2000: Richard Sennett
Lecture title: "Changing Meaning of Class"
1998: Helga Nowotny
Lecture title: "The Objectivity trap: On current changes between science and society" and "The Myths of the new: Coping with the dynamics of scientific and social innovation"
1997: Jürgen Habermas
Lecture title: "Normative issues of multiculturalism" and "Beyond the nation state: Reflections on the issue of economic globalization"
1996: Carole Pateman
Lecture title: "Feminist theory and the enlightenment" "Democratization and citizenship in the 1990`s: The legacy of T.H. Marshall"
1995: Pierre Bourdieu
Lecture title: "Physical space, social space and habitus"
1994: Arlie Hochschild
Lecture title: "Time as an arena of struggle" and "Family, work and time as locus of symbolic interaction"
1994: Robert A. Dahl
Lecture title: "A Democratic dilemma: System effectiveness versus citizen participation"
1993: John H. Goldthorpe
Lecture title: "Current problems of comparative macro sociology"
1992: Theda Skocpol
Lecture title: "Theories of the development of the welfare state"
1991: Raymond Boudon
Lecture title: "Explaining ungrounded beliefs"
1991: Robert K. Merton
Lecture title: "The origin of the word "scientist"