Sociologist Hartmut Rosa gives a lecture at the University of Helsinki on November 8th, 2021

Press release 28.10.2021

German sociologist Hartmut Rosa will present his work on November 8th, 2021 at 6 p.m. at the University of Helsinki. In Auditorium 116 (Unioninkatu 35) he will first give a lecture entitled Social Acceleration, Alienation, and Resonance: Towards a New Understanding of Modernity, in which he will present the main features of his thinking. Afterwards there is the opportunity for discussion. The event will be held in English.

The lecture, which is organized by the University of Helsinki, Goethe-Institut Finnland, the German Embassy and the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, is a public event. It is the first time that Hartmut Rosa, one of the most influential sociologists of these days, visits Finland.

“We are very happy to welcome such a great thinker as Hartmut Rosa as a guest here in Helsinki. We hope that his ideas, which are already making a big impact in international intellectual life and public debates, will be of great interest to people in Finland”, says David Inglis, Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki.

Hartmut Rosa (b. 1965) is director of the Max Weber Centre at Erfurt University and holds the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He has been a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York and at the FMSH/EHESS in Paris. From 2008-2018, he co-edited the international journal Time & Society. Among his most important publications are Alienation and Acceleration (2007), Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity (2013), Resonance. A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (2019) and The Uncontrollability of the World (2020).