The Social Theory Centre Annual Lecture is an an occasion to encounter a distinguished social theorist at Warwick University. The lecture is usually held in the summer term and accompanied by a seminar in which graduate students and others have the opportunity to question our guests on any aspect of their work. The list of previous speakers alone demonstrates how prestigious the lecture has become:

1998 Alain Touraine, How Can We Live Together?

1999 Hans Joas, The Modernity of War

2000 Zygmunt Bauman, Repairing the Broken Middle

2001 Jurgen Habermas, Why Europe Needs a Constitution

2002 Slavoj Zizek, Passions of the Real

2003 Bhikhu Parekh, The Politics of Multiculturalism

2005 Claus Offe, European Perceptions of America: de Tocqueville, Weber, Adorno

2008 Peter Sloterdijk, 'Culture is an Observance': Ludwig Wittgenstein and Anthropotechnics of Ethical Life

Annual Lecture 2009

Ratna Kapur, Director of the Centre of Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi 'The Dark Side of Human Rights: A Postcolonial Reflection'

Costas Douzinas, Director of the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities 'The Paradox of Human Rights'

Monday 6th July 2009, 10am-1pm

Maths Building, MS.05

All welcome!