Public evening lecture by Professor Dr. Steffen Mau (Humboldt University of Berlin / Max Planck Institute for Multireligious and Multiethnic Society)
Current social and political change is sometimes described as a "turning point", sometimes even as an "epochal change". With the dynamization of change, society is coming under stress, old certainties are being lost and opposing forces are gaining strength. The lecture focuses on the question of why social change is perceived as destabilizing: What moments of crisis can be found? Where is there even a "crisis of crisis management"? And does the current crisis mean that we are moving towards a critical turning point that could lead liberal democracy onto a different development path?
Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University in Berlin and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multireligious and Multiethnic Societies in Göttingen. He conducts research on social change, social inequality, Europeanization and transformation. Recent publications include Ungleich vereint. Why the East remains different (2024, Berlin: Suhrkamp), Trigger points. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft (with Thomas Lux and Linus Westheuser) (2023, Berlin: Suhrkamp) and Sortiermaschinen. The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century (2021, Munich: CH Beck).
Moderation: Mathias Greffrath
