The current rapid social and technological change brings about enormous uncertainties – a great need for explanations and sense-making but also of shaping our common future. This high-profile lecture series thrives to develop a European perspective on the processes of transformation that our societies are currently undergoing. To this end, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) are inviting great European thinkers to help us making sense of the digital society.
What is really changing in society beyond the hype of short-term excitement? What is power in the digital society, and how is it distributed? Do we witness the revival of democracy through increased participation and transparency, or rather its demise due to fragmentation and populism? Are services fueled by algorithms and artificial intelligence improving our private and business lives or do they enforce social inequalities? How does urban life change in times of digitization and what role do infrastructures take?
The series began in late 2017 with a kick-off event with Manuel Castells, author of the influential "Information Age" trilogy and professor at the University of Southern California. Other speakers included Elena Esposito, Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the LSE in London, and Eva Illouz, Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Armin Nassehi, Professor of Sociology at LMU Munich and Shoshana Zuboff, who is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School. All speeches can be listened to in the playlist, further information on the events can be found below.
All events in the series will be moderated by Tobi Müller. They are held in English and translated simultaneously into German.
Upcoming events in this series
Keine Veranstaltungen
Past events
Date/Time | Event |
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16.12.2020
19:00 - 20:30 |
Iyad Rahwan: How to trust machines?
Livestream, Berlin |
26.10.2020
19:00 - 22:00 |
Tilman Santarius: Making digitalisation work for the climate!
Livestream, Berlin |
25.05.2020
19:00 - 20:30 |
Joanna Bryson: The role of humans in an age of intelligent machines
Livestream, Berlin |
27.04.2020
19:00 - 20:30 |
Livestream: Philipp Staab – The crises of digital capitalism
Livestream, Berlin |
23.03.2020
18:30 - 22:00 |
Cancelled: Lina Dencik – Justice in the Datafied Society
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
13.02.2020
18:30 - 22:00 |
Sybille Krämer: Cultural history of digitisation
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
16.12.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: The power of platforms and how publishers adapt
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
06.11.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy
Urania Berlin e.V., Berlin |
28.08.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Armin Nassehi: What problem does digitalisation solve?
Säälchen – Holzmarkt, Berlin |
01.07.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Louise Amoore: Our lives with algorithms
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
05.06.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
José van Dijck: Europe and responsible platform societies
Säälchen – Holzmarkt, Berlin |
16.04.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Dirk Baecker: Digitalisation and the next society
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
06.03.2019
18:30 - 22:00 |
Eva Illouz: Capitalist subjectivity and the internet
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1), Berlin |
11.12.2018
18:30 - 22:00 |
Andreas Reckwitz: Digitalisation and society of singularities
Georg-Neumann-Saal (Jazz-Institut Berlin), Berlin |
20.11.2018
18:30 - 22:00 |
Nick Couldry: Colonised by data – the hollowing out of digital society
Auditorium Friedrichstraße, Berlin |
16.10.2018
19:00 - 22:00 |
Cancelled - Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy
Kino International, Berlin |
24.09.2018
19:00 - 22:00 |
Stephen Graham: The politics of urban digital infrastructures
Säälchen – Holzmarkt, Berlin |
07.05.2018
19:00 - 22:00 |
Marion Fourcade: Social order in the digital society
Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin |
12.03.2018
19:00 - 22:00 |
Elena Esposito: Future and uncertainty in the digital society
Auditorium Friedrichstraße, Berlin |
30.01.2018
19:00 - 22:00 |
Christoph Neuberger: Democracy and public sphere in the digital society
Tagungswerk, Berlin |
