6.5. lecture with Isaac Reed: Working towards the Rector – Agency in Social Theory and the Question of Modern Politics

Tuesday 6th of May 2025, 15–17, HSSH Seminar room 524, Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor (access via door on Fabianinkatu, not courtyard). Drinks and snacks will be served after the lecture – !

Working towards the Rector – Agency in Social Theory and the Question of Modern Politics

 is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, US. He is a historical and cultural sociologist whose recent work has concentrated on power and transitions to modernity. He draws on Arendt and American pragmatism to theorize the questions of agency, signification, authority, delegation, and modernity. He is the author of Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (2020) and one the authors and editors of New Pragmatist Sociology (2022). 

Isaac is a HSSH visiting professor at the Sociology and Political Science disciplines of the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2025, and will give this public lecture as part of his visit.