Events & Media
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:
Endowed Lectures
2023 — Joseph Pieper Keynote Lecture, University of Notre Dame
2022 — Clough Distinguished Lecture, Boston College
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, University of Oxford
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
Academia Without Purpose: Or, Why the Right Is Angry at Universities and Why Fifty Years of Changes Have Made It Hard for Universities to Respond Effectively
Recording
Centre for Global Higher Education, Oxford University
Marcuse Returns to the Zeitgeist
Public Lecture, Princeton Center for Human Values, Princeton, NJ
Democracy’s Challenges
Lectio Magistralis Series, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
Degenerations of Democracy & What Is Next
Western College Legacy Seminar, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Artificial Persons? Corporations, States, and People
Sociology Colloquium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Persons: Created, Artificial, and Natural
Josef Pieper Keynote, Notre Dame Conference, Notre Dame, IN
Scale and Democracy
Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Democracy at Different Scales
Rebuilding Democracy Conference, El Colegio de México, Mexico City
Degenerations of Democracy
American University of Paris, Online event
Alienation, Solidarity, and the Future of Democratic Societies
Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Reversing the Degenerations of Democracy
Clough Distinguished Lecture, Boston College, Boston, MA
Degenerations of Democracy
SPGS/GFL Colloquium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Degenerations of Democracy
ASU Center for Work and Democracy, Tempe, AZ
Dismantling Democracy from Within
CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary
What Does Democracy Need?
Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Science and Democracy Lecture: A New Roadmap for Science and Society
Harvard STS Program, Cambridge, MA
Master Class: Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
ISCTE University, Lisbon, Portugal
Pandemic Nationalism
Ryerson University CERC Speech, Toronto, Canada
Are Digital Futures Choice or Fate? (CDCS Digital Launch Keynote)
University of Edinburgh, Online
Thinking Across Scales: From Place-Based Community to Large-Scale Social Integration
1st Internationale Konferenz
Cosmopolitanism and Belonging
Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Populism, Polarization, and Democracy
Thesis Eleven Lecture, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
A Higher Purpose for Politics
St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK
The Power of Imagination
Reset DOC – Dialogues on Civilizations
Athens Lecture
London School of Economics, with discussant Nikos Mouzelis
A Social Science Manifesto
FAPESP - São Paulo
The Legacy of World War I
London School of Economics
Comparative Advantage
Economics Series, London School of Economics
Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response
Durham Castle Lecture Series, University College, Durham University, UK
Free Inquiry and the Public Mission
CCIG Keynote Lecture (as President, Social Science Research Council)