Live
Michèle Lamont is represented by Stern Speakers.
April 19, 2024: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, Colloquium Talk, Notre Dame, IL
May 9, 2024: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, Harvard Business School, Annual Race, Gender & Equity Symposium Keynote
May 28, 2024: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, Harvard Alumni Club, Ottawa, Canada
Past Events
Notable Appearances
“Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Seeing Others book talk, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, NYC
Global launch of the 2021/22 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme
“How to Heal a Divided World” — TEDWomen Conference
“Breaking the Wall to Universal Dignity” — Falling Walls Science Summit
“In Search of Hope: The Current Crisis of American Class Society,” Mosse-Lectures, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
"Erasmus Prize Winner 2017 Michèle Lamont" -- Film portrait (video) by Shanti van Dam of Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
Lectures and Talks
Selected Endowed and Keynote Lectures
April 8, 2024: “Ideas At Ford Author Event”, Ford Foundation, New York City
March 8, 2024: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, Wittrock Lecture at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden
February 15, 2024: “A Conversation on Seeing Others with Michèle Lamont”, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge , MA
February 8, 2024: “Michèle Lamont in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen”, Live Talks Los Angeles Event, Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre, Santa Monica, CA
December 12, 2023: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, virtual Fireside Chat at Google
October 24, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, The World Bank, Washington, DC
April 23, 2023: Keynote Lecture, “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World,” Vectors-2023 Conference, Moscow Centre for Cultural Sociology (virtual)
October 27-28, 2022: “Who Matters: Redefining Worth in our Divided World,” Cadario Lecture, Munk School of Business, University of Toronto, Canada. See this interview with Ron Levi from after the lecture.
March 24, 2022: Keynote lecture on “Political Subjectivity and Personhood”, Theory Section of the German Political Science Association, Aachen, Germany.
March 28-29, 2022: Keynote lecture, “Who Matters: Redefining Worth in our Divided World,” Politeia Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
March 30-31, 2022: Honorary Doctorate Ceremony and Events, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
November 8, 2021: “Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Michèle Lamont” — Interview with Adam Levy, Falling Walls Science Summit
September 24, 2021: “Everyday racism: practices, resistances and struggles of racialized and ethnicized groups”, Keynote address, Ghent University, Virtual/Ghent, Belgium.
March 18, 2021: Keynote Speaker on “New Engines of Hope after the American Dream: Finding Recognition in the New Gilded Age,” Conference on “Class(less) Society and Recognition Gap? Interdisciplinary Approach,” Institute of Sociology and the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Warsaw, Virtual/Warsaw, Poland.
February 25, 2021: Keynote Speaker, 5th Creative Industries Conference, Cass of Business, City University of London, Virtual/London, United Kingdom.
February 5, 2021: “Inclusion and Narratives of Hope after the American Dream,” Form/Huber Colloquium, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Virtual/Columbus, OH.
February 25, 2020: Plenary Keynote, Israeli Sociological Society 51st Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
February 7, 2020: “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” The 2020 Gunnar Myrdal Lecture, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 6, 2020: Keynote Lecture, Institute for Social Research's 70th Anniversary Event, Oslo, Norway.
January 29-31, 2020: Lecture and Honorary Degree, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
January 23, 2020: Honorary Degree, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
November 21, 2019: “In Search of Hope: The Current Crisis of American Class Society,” Mosse-Lectures, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
September 19-20, 2019: “Trust, respect and dialogue: essential elements in engaging society on S&T,” G7 Summit on Science, Trust, and Democracy in the Digital Age, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
August 21, 2019: Plenary Speaker, “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, UK.
December 7, 2018: Grimshaw Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
October 24-26, 2018: “From ‘Having’ to ‘Being’: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society,” British Journal of Sociology Annual Lecture, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.
March 8, 2018: Keynote Address, Swedish Sociological Association 2018 Annual Meeting/Sociologidagarna 2018, Lund, Sweden.
November 28, 2017: Erasmus Prize Ceremony, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
August 12-15, 2017: ASA Presidential Address, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, Canada.
June 14, 2017: Honoris Causa Degree Ceremony and Conference, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
March 13, 2017: "Getting Respect," Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
March 7-8, 2017: "Addressing Recognition Gaps" & "Getting Respect," Public Lecture, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.
January 5, 2017: "Getting Respect," Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecture, University of Oslo/Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
December 1, 2016: "Getting Respect," Keynote Address, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
November 2, 2016: "Consiguiendo Respeto," Keynote address at the conference on "Inequalities" or "Desigualdades," Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social and International Inequalities Institute at London School of Economics COES-LSE, Santiago, Chile.
July 17, 2016: “Getting Respect,” Keynote Speaker, World Sociology Summit on “New Thinking, New Development,” Lanzhou, China.
July 6, 2016: "Getting Respect,” Keynote Speaker, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, Beijing and Harbin, China.
May 16, 2016: “Getting Respect,” Keynote Speaker, 2016 National Human Rights Conference on “The Fight for Equality: A Thousand Challenges,” Commission of the Right of the Person, Montreal, Canada.
Selected Panels and Talks (last 5 years)
April 5, 2024: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, NYU Stern’s Management & Organizations Seminar Talk
March 28, 2024: “Meet The Author” book event, United Nations Bookstore, New York City
March 12, 2024: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
March 2, 2024: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, Author Meets Critics Panel, Eastern Sociological Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
February 28, 2024: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, Institute for Democracy (online, in French)
February 26, 2024: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World”, RN30 Webinar, European Sociological Association (online)
February 22, 2024: “A discussion with Michèle Lamont: ‘Seeing others: From Recognition to Equity and Inclusion’”, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (online, in French)
January 23, 2024: Seeing Others book talk, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA 02108
December 13, 2023: “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works - and How It Can Heal a Divided World”, talk at the Identities Journal Seminar at University of Glasgow, virtual
December 3, 2023: “How Can We Heal A Divided World?”, talk at the Full Circle Ideas Festival, Brussels, Belgium
November 29, 2023: “Bridging the rural–urban divide in Europe: upgrading the European Union convergence machine”, EurofoundLIVE Webinar, Dublin, Ireland (virtual listening option), 9:00 AM EST / 2:00 PM GMT
November 13, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, Science, Technology, & Society Circle, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
October 10, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 7:00 PM
October 5, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle WA 98101 (West Entrance), 7:30 PM
October 4, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, University of California, Berkeley, 4:00 PM
October 3, 2023: Seeing Others book talk, Book Passage Bookstore, One Ferry Building 42, San Francisco, CA, 6:00 PM
September 18, 2023: Princeton University Sociology Department Colloquium, Princeton, NJ
September 11, 2023: Inequality & Social Policy Seminar, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
June 27, 2023: Agnes Heller Lecture, “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World,” La Trobe City University, Melbourne, Australia.
June 26, 2023: Plenary Speaker on Inequalities Created in Neoliberal Economies, “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World,” International Sociological Association World Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
May 26, 2023: Seminar Talk at ResPecTMe, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it can Help Heal our Divided World,” KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
May 9, 2023: “Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World,” lecture at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
February 25, 2023: Panel on “Dignity: Meanings and Measurements”, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
March 7, 2022: “Reimagining Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society”, IAI Symposium, virtual
August 8, 2022: Paper presentation on “‘More Than a Moment’ - Professional Creatives Working for Change in Hollywood and Comedy,” Jobs, Occupations and Professions: Professionalism and Its Legitimacy session, ASA Annual Meeting, L.A., CA.
September 28-30, 2022: “Who Matters: Redefining Worth in our Divided World,” Tariq Modood Honorary Event, University of Bristol, UK.
October 6, 2022: “How to Redefine Worth in our Divided World,” DeZIM Annual Conference 2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, virtual.
January 12, 2021: “Inclusion and Narratives of Hope after the American Dream,” Berkeley Culture Conference, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Virtual/Berkeley, CA.
January 25, 2021: “New Engines of Hope after the American Dream: Finding Recognition in the New Gilded Age,” Inequality & Social Policy Seminar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Virtual/Cambridge, MA.
January 27, 2021: “The Current Crisis of American Democracy: Domestic and International Implications,” Weatherhead Forum Special Session, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Virtual/Cambridge, MA.
February 5, 2021: Session on “Historical Roots of Population Health and the Benefit of Hindsight,” Virtual Symposium on Population Health’s Past, Present, and Future, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Virtual/Toronto, Canada.
February 19, 2021: Panel on “Black Lives Matter in the Wake of COVID-19,” 91st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Virtual.
March 12, 2021: Session on “Récits d'espoir: comment les jeunes Américains font face à la pandémie et redéfinissent leur avenir,” Program on “Leadership et responsabilité collective,” École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Virtual/Montréal, Canada.
April 8, 2021: “New Engines of Hope after the American Dream: Finding Recognition in the New Gilded Age,” European Research Council LOSS Project Webinar, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, Virtual/Milan, Italy.
June 6, 2021: Research Seminar, Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University, Virtual/Heidelberg, Germany.
June 25, 2021: Roundtable on “Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences,” Conference on Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias, 27th International Conference of Europeanists/The Council for European Studies 50th Anniversary Global Conference, Virtual.
June 28-30, 2021: “Social Justice in Times of Uncertainty,” Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, University of Geneva, Virtual/Geneva, Switzerland.
August 7, 2021: “How Scripts of Self Enable Gen Zs to Foster Social Resilience during COVID-19”, with Mari Sanchez and Shira Zilberstein, Panel on Culture and Identity, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual.
August 8, 2021: “Enabling Hope in a Better Future: Braiding Cultural Repertoires when Facing Uncertainty”, with Mari Sanchez and Shira Zilberstein, Paper Session: Between Collapse and Utopia: Foresight, Imagination and Social Change, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual.
August 9, 2021: “Recognition and Narrative Change in Hollywood and Comedy”, with Nicole Letourneau and Derek Robey, New Insights on the Professions: Interrogating the Role of Culture, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual.
November 15, 2021: Online talk on inequality and discrimination, HM Government’s Open Innovation Team, Virtual/London, UK.
February 18, 2020: Panelist, “UNDP-UKRI High Level Dialogue: The SDGs and a New Generation of Inequalities,” UNDP-UKRI GCRF Knowledge Partnership Workshop, United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY.
March 2, 2020: “Finding New Narratives of Worth: Self-Worth and the Crisis of American and European Societies," Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
May 20, 2020: “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” Russell Sage Foundation Fellows Seminar, Virtual/New York, NY.
October 29, 2020: Panel on “Forging Collaborations and Mitigating Uglier Aspects,” Doing Research Together: The Good, the Challenging and the Ugly Aspects of Collaborative Research Symposium, CIRCUS, The Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society, Uppsala University, Virtual/Uppsala, Sweden.
November 10, 2020: “Inclusion and Narratives of Hope after the American Dream,” Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Inaugural Conference, Universität Leipzig, Virtual/Leipzig, Germany.
November 16, 2020: "Diversity and Narratives of Hope: Beyond the Current Crisis of American Society,” Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Workshop, Columbia University, Virtual/New York, NY.
December 1, 2020: “Inequality and Bridging Group Boundaries through Narratives of Hope,” Sociology Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Virtual/Cambridge, United Kingdom.
December 9, 2020: Panel on “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Studying Social Change,” Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Virtual/Cambridge, MA.
December 11, 2020: “Getting Respect in Germany: How Immigrant Parents from Turkey Respond to Racism in Berlin Schools,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Virtual/Berlin, Germany.
December 14, 2020: “Getting to Cultural Processes beyond Getting Respect: How Can the Varied Relationship between Symbolic, Social, and Spatial Boundaries Help Us Understand Racial Groupness and Identity," Final Conference of the Global Race Project, Sciences Po/INED, Virtual/Paris, France.
March 14, 2019: Challenges and Opportunities in Advanced Leadership (COAL) Seminar, Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.
March 30, 2019: “How Professors Think,” Community College to PhD Scholars Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
May 28, 2019: Stockholm Seminar, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Albaeco, Future Earth, & Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
June 26-28, 2019: Conference on “Excellence and Gender Equality: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” Gender Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
October 3, 2019: “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” Sociology Department Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
October 4, 2019: “Evaluating Current Society with a Sociological Lens,” The Berkeley Forum, Berkeley, CA
October 28, 2019: “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” Yale University Workshop in Urban Ethnography, New Haven, CT.
December 6, 2019: “Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis in American Society and Beyond,” University of Chicago Sociology Department Colloquium, Chicago, IL.
February 2, 2018: "Addressing the Recognition Gap," Center for the Study of Inequality and the Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
February 25, 2018: "Presidential Session: Racial Inequality, Culture and Institutional Change," Eastern Sociological Society 2018 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
May 23, 2018: Higher Seminar, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
May 24, 2018: Conference on "Scientific Communication and Gatekeeping in Academia in the 21st Century," Uppsala University & Royal Institute of Technology, Uppsala, Sweden.
May 28, 2018: "Borders and Alterity" Seminar, Research Unit on Issues of Migration and Society (URMIS CNRS Laboratory), Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France.
June 15-16, 2018: Conference on "Populism and the Future of Democracy," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Talloires, France.
August 13, 2018: "Reducing Stigma: Broadening Our Approaches to Interventions," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.