AS Speaker Series

Since 2023, the Academy of Sociology has been organizing a hybrid lecture series in collaboration with a sociology institute in a German-speaking country, featuring presentations on analytical and empirical sociology. The series brings together international and local speakers and invites discussion on important social challenges and developments. Participation is possible in person or online. In the future, there are plans to also host individual hybrid lectures in cooperation with the Academy. If you are interested in co-hosting a lecture or a lecture series in a hybrid format, please feel free to contact Steffen Schindler or Lea Ellwardt, who are currently responsible for organizing the AS Speaker Series.

Upcoming AS Speaker Series:

More information to follow

Former AS Speaker Series:

  • Melinda Mills (University of Oxford): Life at Scale: What Population-Wide Data and Our Future Health UK Reveal about Families, Health, and Bias
  • Frauke Kreuter (LMU München/University of Maryland/University of Mannheim): From Survey Data to AI Alignment: Bridging Social Science and Machine Learning
  • Nathan Wilmers (MIT): The Paper Factory
  • Jochen Gebauer (University of Mannheim): On the Basic Building Blocks of a Neo-Wundtian Social Psychology: Linking the Big Two of Agency and Communion to Social Learning
  • Jennifer Hill (NYU Steinhardt): Democratizing Methods
  • Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim): Partnership Formation in the Context of Forced Migration: Insights on Syrians and Afghans in Germany
  • Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University): The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes
  • Markus Strohmaier (University of Mannheim): Why Simulating Society with LLMs is Impossible, but Necessary
  • Marita Jacob (University of Cologne): Unlocking Equal Opportunities: How Counseling Mitigates Social Inequality in University Enrollment in Germany
  • Daniel McFarland (Stanford University): Homo Academicus Stanfordiensis: The University as Strategic Action Field
  • Thomas Leopold (University of Cologne): Beyond the Nuclear Family: New Data on Kinship Networks Reveal Matrilineal Tilts, Ripple Effects of Divorce, and the Importance of Extended Kin
  • Mario L. Small (Columbia University): Financial Institutions, Neighborhoods, and Racial Inequality
  • Lea Ellwardt (University of Cologne): The Ties that Bother: Difficult Relationships in Older Adults’ Personal Network
  • Filiz Garip (Princeton University): Climate Change, Migration, and Inequality
  • Karsten Hank (University of Cologne): Assessing Sexual-Minority Respondents’ Attitudes, Behaviors, and Outcomes: Quantitative Findings from pairfam & FReDA
  • Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan): Competition in Online Dating Markets