Free Event! Wolfgant Streeck - Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Transitions

Renowned theorist speaks on the transformations of our times

The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and Conter are hosting a free lecture and public discussion on Thursday 8 February at 6pm UK time.

Professor Wolfgang Streeck will speak on capitalist crisis and transformation. We live in a time of wars, economic crisis and political instability. But how do these tendencies translate into social change? How does capitalism stabilise itself through disorder?

Wolfgang Streeck studied sociology in Frankfurt am Main and at Columbia University. From 1988 to 1995 he was Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from 1995 to 2014 Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. His research areas are comparative political economy and institutional change in capitalist economies and societies. His books include Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice (with Ruth Dukes), Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022; How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System, London and New York: Verso Books, 2016; Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, London and New York: Verso Books, 2014; Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2009.

This is an online event, which you can join via zoom. If you would like to attend, you must register in advance on TicketTailor (click on the link above, or visit our website). You will be sent a confirmation email after registering with instructions on how to join. If you do not receive the meeting link, please check your junk mail folder.