Guest Lecturers
MONIKA WOHLRAB-SAHR
Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leipzig
From 1999 to 2006 she taught Sociology of Religion. She was a guest scientist in Berkeley, Florence, New Delhi and Montreal. Her research interests include the conversion to Islam, Islam in Europe, the process of secularization in East Germany and the comparative analysis of secularities. Prof. Wohlrab-Sahr´s workshop illuminates how to design international comparative research projects using qualitative methods in order to study the manifold forms of relationships between religion and society. Her lecture discussed how “the religious” and the “non-religious” relate to each other in our contemporary world, and how the boundaries of religion are contested in various societies.
ALEJANDRO MORENO
Professor of Political Science at ITAM, and Head of the Department of Public Opinion Research at Reforma newspaper
He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI), and Mexico`s Principal Investigator for the World Values Survey and the Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP). He is also a Managing Director of the Latinobarómetro (since 2010), and eх-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). He is research interests focus on election polling, voting behavior, campaign effects and political attitudes in Latin American countries.
CHRISTIAN WELZEL
Leading professor of LCSR
He is a Second Vice-President of World Values Survey Association (Stockholm, Sweden) and a Chair for Political Culture Research at the Leuphana University in Germany, as well as Adjunct Professor at Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany). His research focuses on the question of how ordinary people’s value orientations vary across the political cultures of contemporary societies in a global comparative perspective. In this wide field of interest, Welzel has published extensively about developmental processes that transform political cultures and how such transformations affect political institutions, especially democracy. He gave a TED talk "Moral Progress: Expanding the Human Mind". (follow the link to watch it.)
TIM REESKENS
Holds a PhD and is an Assistant Professor in sociology at Tilburg University
His main research interests regard a comparative analysis of social cohesion and social solidarity in Europe. His current research project aims at explaining attitudes towards welfare state performance. Previously, he has been involved in a comparative research into the relation between ethnic-cultural diversity, integration policies and social cohesion in Europe
Dr. Reeskens lectures a course on “Social Capital in Western and Post-Communist Societies”, assessing a theoretical and empirical framework that allows for the study of the sources and consequences of social capital across Western and Post-Communist Societies. In addition, he gives a talk on the influence of the current migration wave on support for the welfare state in Western Europe. Dr. Reeskens lectures a course on “Social Capital in Western and Post-Communist Societies”, assessing a theoretical and empirical framework that allows for the study of the sources and consequences of social capital across Western and Post-Communist Societies. In addition, he gives a talk on the influence of the current migration wave on support for the welfare state in Western Europe.
STEFAN HOHNE
Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, Germany
The opening of the first metropolitan underground railroads around 1900 marks the rise of a central subject type of modernity: the urban passenger. Focusing on the New York Subway, the largest urban transit system of the 20th century, Stefan Höhne analyzes the historical dynamics of the sociabilities, control techniques and subjectivities of their passengers. In these interactions between man and machine, central cultural techniques of modernity are developed, which react both to the hardships of industrial mass culture as well as allowing for new experiences, encounters and liberties. He gave a talk 'New York City Subway: The Invention of the Modern Urban Passenger' .
ROY THURIK
professor of economics and entrepreneurship at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
and a professor of entrepreneurship at the Free University in Amsterdam (VU)
Also he is a Research Fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, geno-economics, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies (1)
The first event of this semester for students of our programme took place on September 27th 2017 This was an opportunity to get to know about cross-country comparison from one of the most sucessfull social scientist (almost 400 publications, H-index=80)
The first event of this semester for students of our programme took place on September 27th 2017 This was an opportunity to get to know about cross-country comparison from one of the most sucessfull social scientist (almost 400 publications, H-index=80)
New York City Subway: The Invention of the Modern Urban Passenger.