Close sidebar Home » Programmes and Fellowships » Postdoctoral Max Weber Programme » Activities » Max Weber Lectures » MWL 2006-2013 Open sidebar menu Max Weber Lectures in Villa la Fonte (2006-2013) 2006-2007 4 October 2006 Fritz Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne "Social Science as a Vocation. Are Max Weber’s Warnings still Valid?" 4 October 2006 Odile Quintin, Director General for Education and Culture, European Commission Opening Speech of the Max Weber Programme 18 October 2006 James J. Heckman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago "The Economics of Human Development" 15 November 2006 Russell Hardin, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University "Government without Trust" 17 January 2007 Gunther Teubner, Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Zivilrecht, JWG-University of Frankfurt "Rights of Nonhumans? Computers and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law" 14 March 2007 John Hardman Moore, Department of Economics, London School of Economics "Partial Contracts: More is Less?" 28 March 2007 Joel Mokyr, Departments of Economics and History, Northwestern University "The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth" 18 April 2007 Martti Koskenniemi, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki "'Not excepting the Iroqouis themselves...' Sociological Thought and International Law" 9 May 2007 Lucette Valensi , Centre d’Histoire Social de l’Islam Méditerranéen, EHESS "The Spectre of Islamism. A Historian's Reading" 16 May 2007 Hartmut Kaelble, Department of History, Humboldt University "The European Public Sphere" 20 June 2007 Stephen Haber , Department of Political Science & Hoover Institution, Stanford University "Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies" back to top 2007-2008 17 October 2007Roger Guesnerie, Collège de France"Global Warming and the Design of Climate Policies" 21 November 2007 Perry Anderson, Department of History, UCLA "Theories of European Integration: a Geoculture" 19 December 2007 Deirdre McCloskey, Departments of History, Economics, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago "Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1776" 16 January 2008 Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School "The Rise of Global Legalism" 13 February 2008Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa "Fear, Reverence, Terror - Reading Hobbes Today" 5 March 2008Dieter Grimm, Humboldt University, Berlin "Broadcasting Regulation between National Constitutional and European Community Law" 19 March 2008 Adam Przeworski, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Department of Politics, New York University"From Representative Institutions to Democracy" 16 April 2008Thomas J. Sargent, Department of Economics, New York University and Hoover Institution, Stanford , CA "Evolution versus Intelligent Design in Macroeconomics" 21 May 2008 Richard Layard , Department of Economics, London School of Economics "Social Science and Causes of Happiness and Misery" 19 June 2008Jean Comaroff, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago "Nietzsche and Neopentecostalism: The World After Weber?" 2008-2009 24 September 2008Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton & Nobel Prize in Economics 2007 "On Mechanism Design" 15 October 2008 Ute Frevert, Director of the Max Planck Institut, Berlin"Does Trust have a history?” 19 November 2008 Jared Diamond, Department of Geography, UCLA "Lessons from the Past: How Societies Have Failed or Succeeded " 17 December 2008 Torsten Persson, Director of the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm"State Capacity, Conflict and Development" 28 January 2009 Christine Jolls, Yale University Law School "The New Behavioral Law and Economics" 18 February 2009 Gosta Esping-Andersen, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra"How Women Changed the World" 18 March 2009Barry Weingast, Department of Political Science, Stanford University "Why Developing Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law" 15 April 2009 - CancelledMireille Delmas-Marty, Collège de France, Paris "Ordering Pluralism: In the Land of Orderly Clouds" 20 May 2009 David Levine, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis "Is Behavioural Economics Doomed?" 10 June 2009 Charles S. Maier, Department of History, Harvard University "Between Social Science and Surprise: Abiding Dilemmas of Historical Explanation" 2009-2010 23 September 2009Philippe C. Schmitter, Emeritus Professor, SPS Department, EUI"Micro-Foundations for the Science(s) of Politics" 21 October 2009Thomas F. Cooley, New York University"The Spirit of Capitalism: The Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis" 18 November 2009Mireille Delmas-Marty, Collège de France, Paris"Ordering Pluralism: In the Land of Orderly Clouds" 16 December 2009Mary Beard, Cambridge University "Simulacra and re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the 19th century" 20 January 2010 - Special Max Weber Lecture Charles Richard Bean, Deputy Governor, Bank of England"The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction" 20 January 2010 Harold James, Princeton University/EUI "The Financial Crisis: Can History Help Us Understand the Future?" 17 February 2010 Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex "Natural Law and Social Science: Some Historical Considerations" 17 March 2010 Alan Schwartz, Yale University "Is a Contract Law Necessary?" 21 April 2010 Jon Elster, Columbia University"Justice, Truth, Peace" 19 May 2010Jeremy Waldron, New York UniversityDignity, Rights, and Responsibilities 16 June 2010Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich "The Lure of Authority" 2010-2011 20 October 2010 Jane Mansbridge, Harvard Kennedy School"Against Accountability" 17 November 2010 Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California-Irvine"Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective" 15 December 2010 Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University "My brain made me do it!”—When neuroscientists think they can do philosophy" 19 January 2011Mario Biagioli, University of California, Davis"The Dematerialization of Invention: Revolutions in the History of a Legal Concept" 16 February 2011 Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics"Laws and Norms" 16 March 2011 Deirdre Curtin, University of Amsterdam"Beyond Whack-a-mole: Keeping Government Secrecy Safe" 20 April 2011 Wolfgang Streeck, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, EUI"The Crisis in Context: Democratic Capitalism and Its Contradictions" 18 May 2011 Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University "Trade and Labor Market Outcomes" 15 June 2011 Bruce Ackerman, Yale University"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic" 2011-2012 19 October 2011Chris Pissarides, LSE "Employment in Europe" (Abstract) 16 November 2011 Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France "Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequalities" (Abstract) 14 December 2011 Avinash Dixit, Princeton University "Governance, Develoopment and Foreign Direct Investment" (Abstract) 18 January 2012 Kathleen Thelen, MIT "Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity" (Abstract) 15 February 2012 Nicola Lacey, Oxford University "Revisiting the Comparative Political Economy of Punishment" (Abstract) 21 March 2012Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen "Ships of State: Germany, Europe, and Beyond ... Images of Political Unity for Troubled Times (Abstract)" 25 April 2012Linda Colley, Princeton University"Liberties and Empires: Writing Constitutions in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848" (Abstract) 16 May 2012 Seyla Benhabib, Yale University "The Future of Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law: Democratic Iterations, Transjudicial Conversations and Epistemic Communities (Abstract)" 20 June 2012Richard Revesz, NYU Law School "Three Stages in the Evolution of Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Tool to Evaluate Regulation" (Abstract) 2012-2013 17 October 2012"The Return from Narrative: Post-Cultural History and the Social Sciences" (abstract)Jan deVriesUniversity of California Berkely21 November 2012 “Citizenship as a Space of Law"(abstract)Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh 19 December 2012, "The Integrity and Independence of Policymakers"(abstract) Lawrence Lessig Harvard Law School 16 January 2013 "The Globalization of Inequality"(abstract)François BourguignonParis School of Economics 20 February 2013 "'The Strange Non-Death of Multiculturalism" Tariq Modood University of Bristol 17 April 2013 "Viral Engagement: Fast, Cheap, and Broad, but Good for Democracy?" (abstract)Archon Fung Harvard University 15 May 2013 "Women and Religion" (abstract)Joan Wallach Scott , IAS School of Social Science, Princeton 5 June 2013, Wednesday 17.00"Human Nature and Institution Design" (new date) Tim Besley London School of Economics 19 June 2013 "From „Science as a Vocation“ (1918) to “Horizon 2020” (2012) - Changing Vocabularies of Motives and Rationales for Research"Karl-Ulrich Mayer, Yale University / Max Planck Institute for Human Development Page last updated on 18 August 2017