The WZB Distinguished Lectures in Social Sciences

The WZB Distinguished Lectures in Social Sciences aims to showcase the work of leading social scientists whose careers exemplify the same combination of frontier research and policy relevance that the WZB stands for. The series will consist of at least one economist, one sociologist and one political scientist per year, yet the series will place an emphasis on work that is of interdisciplinary interest.

Lectures

Can We Change the Overwork Culture? The Role of Workplaces in Challenging Conventional Definitions of ‘Ideal Workers’

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Youngjoo Cha, Indiana University Bloomington

Lessons from a Century of Black Migration

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Tod G. Hamilton, Princeton University

Bellende Hunde beißen nicht: Why European right-wing populists achieve so little in foreign policy

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University

Sociology, Genetics and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Melinda Mills, University of Oxford

Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich

Ethnicity, Class, and Geography in the Trajectory of American Politics

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Introduction by Macartan Humphreys, WZB Director

Communicating Uncertainty in Policy Analysis

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Introduction by Dorothea Kübler, WZB Director

Citizen Confidence in Government: Why They Lose It and How They Regain It

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences by Margaret Levi, Stanford University
Introduction by Wolfgang Merkel, WZB Director