Max Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” at 100
Where: Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
212-817-7000 Price: Free
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Thursday, October 25
Opening Keynote | 6:00 PM
Welcoming Remarks: Chase Robinson (tbc) | President, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Introduction by Co-Organizers:
Álvaro Morcillo | Social Science Center Berlin (WZB)
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
Coffee Reception | 9:30 AM
Panel 1 | 10:00 AM
Chair: Álvaro Morcillo | Social Science Center Berlin (WZB)
Eduardo Weisz | University of Buenos Aires
Science and Rationalization: A Disenchanted Vocation
Lisa Marsh | The Graduate Center, CUNY
Weber and DuBois: Two Scientific Vocations Compared
John Torpey | The Graduate Center, CUNY
Max Weber and the Idea of Progress
Lunch Break | 12:00 PM
Panel 2 | 1:00 PM
Chair: Roslyn Bologh | College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Stephen Turner | University of South Florida
Weber and the Academic Ethic Today — What is Living and What is Dead?
Jesse Prinz | The Graduate Center, CUNY
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 | The Graduate Center, CUNY
Álvaro Morcillo | Social Science Center Berlin (WZB)
(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 | Social Science Center Berlin (WZB)
Steven Shapin | Harvard University
“Science as a Vocation” and the Management of “Is” and “Ought”
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