THE FUTURES LECTURE SERIES

A rapidly changing world requires new ways of thinking and acting. The Futures Lecture Series features cutting-edge speakers from the arts and social sciences whose cross-disciplinary scholarship and ground-breaking insights help all of us rethink the urgent challenges of the contemporary world.

• Jörg Rüpke (September 2025)
  Religion in an Urban World – Pasts and Futures
• David Wengrow (December 2023)
  Prospects for a New History of Humanity, and the Roots of Inequality
• Hartmut Rosa (september 2023)
  From Responsibility towards Respons-a-bility: Resonance as an Ethic of Care in an Accelerated World
• Kwame Anthony Appiah (May 2023)
  Whose Heritage? Preservation, Possession, and Peoples
• Anna Tsing (september 2022)
  Fungal Virulence at the End of the World, or, the More-than-Human Anthropocene
• Martha Nussbaum (september 2019)
  Anger, Fear and the Politics of Blame
• Rosi Braidotti (september 2018)
  What is the human in the humanities today?
• Karen Barad (oktober 2016)
  Troubling Time/s, Undoing the Future
• Bruno Latour (juni 2016)
  Why Gaia is not the Globe – and why our future depends on not confusing the two
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen (oktober 2015):
  Overheating: Coming to terms with accelerated change
• James C. Scott (april 2015): 
  The Domestication of Fire, Animals, Grains and.......Us
• Prasenjit Duara (okt. 2014):
  Network Asia: Futures of the Pasts