Bauman Memorial Lecture 2025 - Global Dignity and 'Seeing Others'

We were delighted to launch the Bauman Memorial Lecture in May, 2025.

The Bauman Memorial Lecture is a biennial event that is modelled in the spirit of public dialogue that characterizes the work of Zygmunt Bauman, world-renowned social thinker and former professor at the University of Leeds. It is intended as a vehicle for continuing Bauman’s intellectual project of chronicling and making sense of our ‘liquid times’ at a time when collective narratives and shared visions of a better future are under significant threat. The 2025 Bauman Memorial Lecture has especial significance since it took place in Zygmunt Bauman's centenary year and the 15th year of the existence of the Bauman Institute.

Our first speaker was Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University.