Department of Sociology

Sociology

Audio Lectures

The following lectures have been saved in wave (.wav) format:

  1. "Can sociology meet the biological challenge?" York, 3 November 2004.
  2. "The Future of the University" Leicester, 13 October 2004.
  3. "Philosophy and Social Theory I" 17th to mid 19th century, 7 November 2004.
  4. "Philosophy and Social Theory II" mid 19th century to Today, 14 November 2004.
  5. "UNESCO talk on the future of university governance", Paris, 3 December 2004
  6. "Philosophy of Science and the Science Wars," American Philosophical Association, Boston, 29 December 2004.
  7. "Kuhn vs Popper and the Current State of Science Studies," Imperial College London, 5 January 2005.
  8. "The University as a Space for Intellectual Life," Mead Art Gallery, Warwick University, 19 January 2005.
  9. 'How to be an intellectual', Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 9 March 2005.
  10. 'What do Economics, Science and Democracy have to do with each other?' Madrid, 11 April 2005
  11. 'The fate of university autonomy since Humboldt', Open Society Institute, Budapest, 22 April 2005.
  12. 'Academics and Intellectuals: Same or Opposite?' Northwestern University, 5 May 2005.
  13. 'The Hidden History of Information Science: From the Chemistry of Ideas to the Science Citation Index, U Illniois-UC, 8 May 2005
  14. 'Research Ethics and the Problem of Epistemic Justice', Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 24 May 2005.
  15. "How would we know if science was well governed?", American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005
  16. "What's worth going public about British Sociology?", Liverpool, 8 September 2005
  17. "Is Complexity Theory Just Postmodern Positivism?", Liverpool, 12 September 2005
  18. 'Darwin's Original Sin: The Denial of Theology's Claim to Knowledge'. Oxford, 20 January 2009 
  19. WEB 3.0: WILL BIGGER BE BETTER? (FACT, Liverpool, 16 March 2009)
  20. CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY (18 March 2009, University of Twente, Netherlands)
    Powerpoints for the Talk
  21. Two hour lecture and discussion on social epistemology and interdisciplinarity, delivered at the EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration) Winter Academy in Grenoble, France, 23 March 2009.
    1. Powerpoints for the Talk1
    2. Powerpoints for the Talk2
  22. Plenary address to the British Sociological Association sociology of religion study group (Intelligent Design: What is it -- and why now?), Durham,_31_March 2009
    1. Powerpoint
  23. Natural Law and Human Rights in a Posthuman World (Final Lecture of Social Theory of Law course, 21 April 2009)
  24. Converging Technologies and the Future of Humanity with Eye towards Latin America: A Future for Natural Law? (EU-Latin America-Knowledge Society workshop, Vienna, 8 June 2009)
    1. Accompanying Powerpoints
  25. Does Science Communication Need to Distinguish Fact and Faction? (Keynote address, 4th Annual Science and the Public Conference, Brighton UK, 13 June 2009)
  26. The Stuggle for the Soul of Engineering (On God as the Divine Engineer behind Intelligent Design): Dublin Institute of Technology, 3 July 2009
  27. On Interdisciplinarity as a driving force in Knowledge Production and Its Philosophical Roots, Society for Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, Neth, 10 July 2009
  28. Cambridge Lecture on 'Dissent over Descent' (11 July 2009)
    1. Q&A after the Lecture
  29. European Union - Latin America in the Knowledge Society, Summer School, FLACSO, Mexico City, Topic: 'converging technologies and the future of social sciences (17 August 2009)
  30. 'The new sociological imagination', Annual meeting of the Association of Teachers of Social Science, Northampton UK (12 September 2009)
  31. 'THREE WOMEN AFTER THE SOUL OF WILLIAM JAMES' -- PLAY STAGED AT THE 2009 BRITISH SCIENCE FESTIVAL (SURREY UNIVERSITY, 7 SEPT 2009): INCLUDES 50 MIN. PLAY AND 50 MIN. FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
  32. Keynote Address, 'Is academic freedom affordable in a time of economic crisis?' annual signing of Magna Charta Universitatum, 17 September 2009, University of Bologna
  33. General Education for a Digital Age, Art of Digital Conference, Liverpool (23 September 2009)
  34. Darwin and the History of Science, Centre for Life annual lecture series, Newcastle (30 September 2009)
  35. Presentation on Mimesis to the ESRC Understanding Individual Behaviour Network (UCL, 9 November 2009)
  36. Keynote Address to the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology (Berkeley, 6 August 2010)
  37. Keynote Address on the Costs and Benefits of Interdisciplinarity, EISAM (Birmingham UK, 21 September 2010)
  38. Keynote Address 'Can science survive its democratisation?' UNAM (Mexico City, 5 October 2010) -- first 5 min. introduction is in Spanish
  39. Warwick 'Human Futures' seminar on Chris Renwick's 'Biology and the Making of British Sociology' (21 October 2010)
  40. 'Humanity as an Interdisciplinary Project': EDAMBA Workshop, Grenoble/Warwick videoconference (25 October 2010)
  41. 'History and Meaning of Sociology' -- for Sociological Perspectives (Warwick, 26 october 2010)
  42. 'Intellectuals as Democratic Revolutionaries' -- for Politics and social Theory (Warwick, 8 November 2010
  43. ''Can Academic Freedom Be Taught Anymore? On the Disappearance of Judgement as a Mental Function' (Institute of Education, London, 26 Jan 2011)
  44. "What is Epistemic Justice?" (Univ. Aix en Provence, France, 24 March 2011)
  45. "Moral Entrepreneurship: A 21st Century Vocation?" (Sociological Association of Ireland keynote, Cork, 6 May 2011)
  46. "The Role of Adaptive Preferences in Narratives of Progress and Self-Improvement" (Warwick, 27 Sep 2011).
  47. "David Hume as Philosopher of Diminished Expectations" (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Nov 2011)
  48. "Brain: Life But Not as We Know It" (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Dec 2011)
  49. "My Best Fiend" (Goldsmiths College London 13 Dec 2011).
  50. 'How can we talk about trans/posthumanity when we're not even human yet (Zeppelin U, Germany, 20 Jan 2012)
  51. 'What is the value of the Ph.D. for Non-Academic Careers? (Zeppelin U, Germany, 21 Jan 2012)
  52. 'Humanity 2.0' (LSE, 22 Feb 2012)
  53. Keynote of UNESCO conference on Environmental Epistemology (Mexico City, 24 Feb 2012)
  54. NSF Workshop on Transformative Research: "The Proactionary Principle" (9 March 2012)
  55. Zeppelin U. Nico Stehr as Welfare State Epistemologist (31 March 2012)
  56. Barcleona Discourse Analysis Workshop -- On the Precautionary/Proactionary Discursive Divide (2 April 2012)
  57. The Changing Meaning of Science and Its Ideological Implications -- Honorary Professor lecture at Dalian U. Technology, China (23 May 2012)

 

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