Frühjahrssemester 2017 – Welten in Umbruch
Oskar Lafontaine
Europe – what next?
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
America, do you (still) have it better?
Prof. Dr. Kishore Mahbubani
Can Asia lead the world?
Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
The future of freedom
Herbstsemester 2016 – Fokus Asien
Urs Schoettli
The Return of the Hegemon – China’s Shadow Over East Asia
Kevin Rudd
Rising Asia and Its Impact on the Global Order
Dr. Philipp Hildebrand
China’s Rise and Its Consequences
Special events:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher
Brexit, EFTA and EEA
The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH
The British Exit – and the European Future
Dr. h.c. Erwin Teufel
Putting Europe on its feet
Herbstsemester 2015 – Umbruch im Osten
Frühjahrssemester 2015
Dr. Jens Weidmann
Challenges for the euro area: what has been achieved, what remains to be done?
Orhan Pamuk
Novels, Museums and Politics
Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude
Society of Fear – how we endanger our own freedom
Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer
Economy and human behaviour – how do you make good decisions?
Prof. Dr. Mark Lilla
The unreadability of our time
Federal Councillor Alain Berset
Switzerland – A nation of remembrance with a future
Herbstsemester 2014 – Zukunft der Demokratie
Frühjahrssemester 2014
Federal Councillor Alain Berset
The great pension reform as a test for our political culture
Sonja Zekri
Egypt – Between Awakening and Demolition
Taiye Selasi
African literature does not exist
Professor Dr Christopher Clark
“1914” – The Sleepwalkers
State Secretary Jacques de Watteville
Political challenges for the Swiss financial centre
Herbstsemester 2013 – Geopolitik im Umbruch
Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler
Space in the 21st Century – on Geopolitical Upheavals and Changes
Dr. Rainer Hermann
No Spring in Arabia – More Islam and More Freedom
Prof. Dr. Robert James Shiller
Finance and the Good Society
Dr. h.c., Dr. Ing. e.h. Wolfgang Clement
On the current situation in Germany and Europe – What to do now
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider
Europe’s successful descent into geopolitical perspective
Frühjahrssemester 2013
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Jordan
Strong Swiss franc and high current account surplus: a contradiction?
Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel
We media people – in the purgatory of digital life
Prof. Dr. Jeremy Rifkin
Leading the Way Towards a Third Industrial Revolution
Prof. Dr. Hermann Lübbe
The world in which we live – a contemporary experience report
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
Energy crisis, climate crisis, financial crisis – how we can beat three crises with one stone
Herbstsemester 2012 – Brennpunkte im Weltgeschehen
Jacqueline Hénard
France up-to-date – political and economic challenges
Federal Councillor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann
Switzerland in the World – Opportunities, Risks, New Constellations
Prof. Dr. Harold James
Europe’s Problems and the Global Economic Order
Prof. Dr. Robert James Shiller
Finance and the Good Society
Dr. h.c., Dr. Ing. e.h. Wolfgang Clement
On the current situation in Germany and Europe – What to do now
Frühjahrssemester 2012
Prof. Dr. Niall Ferguson
Can Europe collapse? And might America be next?
Prof. Dr. Wolf Lepenies
A Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean
Alice Schwarzer
Emancipated women and insecure men – and now?
Christine Lagarde
Shared Prosperity in a Globalized World
Urs Rohner
Global economy and finance face new challenges
Herbstsemester 2011