Max Weber Lectures

The monthly Max Weber Lectures are given by distinguished scholars from the four disciplines of the EUI. The Programme aims at inviting scholars who address topical issues from an interdisciplinary perspective that will appeal to the EUI academic community as a whole.

At least one of the Lecturers will be related to each of the Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (IRC), and every cluster will have an opportunity to organise a master class on the following day with the relevant Lecturer. All Lecturers will also be available to discuss the work of Fellows on an informal basis.

The lectures are usually at 17:00, the 1st Wednesday of the month in the Refettorio, the Badia Fiesolana, and are followed by a cocktail.

Please note that dates are subject to change. 

Max Weber lectures 2025-2026 at a glance

• 1 October 2025 – Prof. Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard University) Skeletons in the closet: remnants of Medieval blood libel in postwar Central Europe
• 8 October 2025 - Prof. Ariela Gross ( UCLA School of Law) Erasing slavery: a historian writes about memory in constitutional law and politics
• 5 November 2025 - Kohli Award – Prof. Peter Bearman (Columbia University) “Pathways to Poverty”
• 19 November 2025 - Prof. Izabela Grabowska (Kozminski University) “AI/automation, society, migration, and employment (AISOME): an adaptive ontology framework for labour and migration governance in transition”
• 14 January 2026– Prof. Moritz Mihatsch (University of Cambridge) Shifting sovereignties
• 4 February 2026 - Prof. James Cavallaro (University Network for Human Rights)- Activism and Academia: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Academic Freedom and Social Engagement
• 4 March 2026 – Prof. Surabhi Ranganathan (University of Cambridge).Fever dreams and future-making in the ocean: What role for the law of the sea?
• 13 May 2026 – Prof. Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it (in collaboration with ILWG and LPTWG)
• 27 May 2026 – Prof. Anindya Banerjee (University of Birmingham) Looking for Causality
• 10-11 June 2026 – MWP 20^th Anniversary Conference The Past, Present, and Future of the Max Weber Programme
• 17 June 2026 – EUI Honorary Doctorate Recipient Prof. Guido Imbens (Stanford University) Causality and Randomized Experiment

Max Weber Lectures Series 2026-27 at a glance (full programme work in progress)

• 7 October 2026 – Prof. Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University)
• 4 November 2026 – Prof. Dalton Conley (Princeton University)
• 25 November 2026 – Prof. Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
• 3 March 2027 – Prof. Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)
• 9 June 2027 – Prof. Amia Srinivasan (All Souls College, Oxford)

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