Max Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” at 100
Max Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” at 100
October 25-26, 2018
Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center | City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue | New York, NY 10016
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THURSDAY | OCTOBER 25 | Skylight Room
WELCOMING REMARKS | 6:00 PM |
Chase Robinson
President, The Graduate Center, CUNY
OPENING KEYNOTE | 6:15 PM |
Introduction: John Torpey
Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Wolfgang Schluchter
University of Heidelberg,
The Students Listening: Why and for Whom Did Weber Speak on “Science as a Vocation”
FRIDAY | OCTOBER 26 | Skylight Room
BREAKFAST BUFFET | 9:30 AM |
PANEL 1 | 10:00 AM |
Chair: Álvaro Morcillo
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Eduardo Weisz
University of Buenos Aires
Science and Rationalization: A Disenchanted Vocation?
Lisa Marsh
CUNY Graduate Center
Weber and DuBois: Two Scientific Vocations Compared
John Torpey
CUNY Graduate Center
Max Weber and the Idea of Progress
LUNCH BREAK | 12:00 PM |
PANEL 2 | 1:00 PM |
Chair: Roslyn Bologh
CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Turner
University of South Florida
Weber and the Academic Ethic Today — What is Living and What is Dead?
Jesse Prinz
CUNY Graduate Center
Is Wonder Waning? An Examination of Weber’s Disenchantment Thesis
Nicolas Langlitz
The New School
Psychedelic Research: Are Scholarly Lives as Weber Described Them?
PANEL 3 | 3:15 PM |
Chair: John Torpey
CUNY Graduate Center
Álvaro Morcillo
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
(Social) Scientists and (International) Politics
Catherine Colliot-Thélène
Université de Rennes
Democracy, Demos, and Scientists
Gil Eyal
Columbia University
Trans-Science as a Vocation
CLOSING KEYNOTE | 5:30 PM |
Introduction: Álvaro Morcillo
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Steven Shapin
Harvard University
“Science as a Vocation” and the Management of ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’
