Hartmut Rosa - Annual John Urry Lecture 2019

Thursday 31 October 2019, 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Venue

Lancaster University Management School Lecture Theatre LT4

Open to

Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Postgraduates, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, Undergraduates

Registration

Free to attend - registration required

Event Details

Hartmut Rosa, Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, and an Affiliated Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, will deliver the 2019 Annual John Urry Lecture at Lancaster University.

The Annual John Urry Lecture is supported by Lancaster University, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Department of Sociology. It is organised by the Centre for Mobilities Research and the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University.

Tea/Coffee from 3:45

Lecture 4:15 – 5:30

From 5:30 Wine Reception

Hartmut Rosa's focus is on the sociology of time and the formation of identity. He is a Co-Editor of Time and Society and a Co-Director of the Annual International Conference Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Prague. In 2010, he published his bookAlienation and Acceleration. Towards a Critical Theory of Late Modern Temporality with NSU Press Malmö/Arhus. His book „Beschleunigung. Die Veränderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne“ (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2005) will be published in English through Columbia University Press in 2012.

The Annual John Urry Lecture is organised by the Centre for Mobilities Research and the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University.

Contact Details

Name Professor Monika Buscher
Email

cemore@lancaster.ac.uk