Lectures

Endowed Lectures

Date	Title
2023	Joseph Pieper Keynote Lecture, Notre Dame University
2022	Clough Distinguished Lecture, Boston University
2018	Jodidi Lecture, Harvard University
2018	Matrix Distinguished Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
2017	Thesis Eleven Lecture, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2015	Ralph Dahrendorf Lecture, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
2014	William Temple Lecture, University of Manchester
2013	Willem Aubert Lecture, University of Oslo
2013	Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture, LSE
2013	Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of Michigan
2012	Ralph Miliband Memorial Lecture, LSE
2011	Albert Morris Lecture, Boston University
2009	Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Lecture, USC
2007	Sir Robert Birley Lecture, City University of London
2007	Ernest Gellner Memorial Lecture, LSE
2004	Pitirim Sorokin Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan
2001	Hans Speier Distinguished Lecturer, New School for Social Research
2000	Benjamin J. Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Bristol
1997	Howard W. Beers Lecturer, University of Kentucky
1996	Harry Bridges Lecturer, University of Washington and International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, Seattle
1994	Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture, UCLA

Selected Lectures

Craig Calhoun has delivered numerous lectures that discuss critical issues such as democracy, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the human condition. These lectures are often part of distinguished series and are hosted by various academic institutions. Here are some notable examples:

Date	Title
2025	The Persistence of the Nation in an Era of Globalization IRLA Foundation Inaugural Lecture, Barcelona, Spain
2024	Democracy's Challenges Lectio Magistralis Series, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
2024	Degenerations of Democracy & What Is Next Western College Legacy Seminar, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2023	Artificial Persons? Corporations, States, and People Sociology Colloquium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2023	Persons: Created, Artificial, and Natural Josef Pieper Keynote, Notre Dame Conference, Notre Dame, IN
2023	Scale and Democracy Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2023	Democracy at Different Scales Rebuilding Democracy Conference, El Colegio de México, Mexico City
2023	Degenerations of Democracy American University of Paris, Online event
2023	Alienation, Solidarity, and the Future of Democratic Societies Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2022	Reversing the Degenerations of Democracy Clough Distinguished Lecture, Boston College, Boston, MA
2022	Degenerations of Democracy SPGS/GFL Colloquium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2022	Degenerations of Democracy ASU Center for Work and Democracy, Tempe, AZ
2022	Dismantling Democracy from Within CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary
2022	What Does Democracy Need? Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2021	Science and Democracy Lecture: A New Roadmap for Science and Society Harvard STS Program, Cambridge, MA
2021	Master Class: Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation (Parts 1, Part 2, Part 3) ISCTE University, Lisbon, Portugal
2020	Pandemic Nationalism Ryerson University CERC Speech, Toronto, Canada
2020	Are Digital Futures Choice or Fate? (CDCS Digital Launch Keynote) University of Edinburgh, Online