Engelsberg Seminars

The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation's Engelsberg Seminar is a forum for promoting independent discussion of practical and spiritual matters of importance to Swedish society and culture, and promotes Sweden's ongoing contribution to international, interdisciplinary humanist debate.

Politics and Ideology (2011)

Lecturers and Moderator: Professor Ulrike Ackermann, Research Director Scott Atran, Journalist and Author James Bartholomew, Professor Michael Bentley, Author Paul Berman, Research Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Parliamentary Private Secretary Nicholas Boles, Councellor in the European External Action Service Robert Cooper, Member of the Editorial Board of Die Politische Meinung Stephan Eisel, Professor Richard J Evans, Professor Michael Freeden, Editor David Frum, Professor Dick Harrison, Director Anna Jardfelt, Leader writer Oliver Kamm, Author Robert Kaplan, Professor John Keane, Senior Research Fellow Johan Lagerkvist, Director Mark Leonard, Director John Lloyd, Washington Bureau Chief Hisham Melhem, Senior Lecturer Richard Miles, Emeritus Professor Kenneth Minogue, Professor Minxin Pei, Writer Malise Ruthven, State Secretary Per Schlingmann, Visiting Fellow Roger Scruton, Foreign Correspondent Nathan Shachar, Chairman of Sonecon Robert Shapiro, Former Spokes Person Green Party Maria Wetterstrand, Moderator Ulf Wickbom.

On Capitalism (2010)

Lecturers and Moderator: Deputy Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker, Chief Economist Erik Berglöf, Investment Manager Edward Chancellor, Presenter Evan Davis, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Director of Economic Policy Studies and Senior Fellow at AEI Kevin Hassett, Leader Writer Oliver Kamm, Author and Journalist Akash Kapur, Author and Economist John Kay, Professor Deirdre McCloskey, Professor Philip Mirowski, Professor Joel Mokyr, Director Geoff Mulgan, Co-founder and director of Eurointelligence Advisers Wolfgang Münchau, Freelance free-marketer Johan Norberg, Dr. of Economy Kjell A. Nordström, Professor Avner Offer, Professor and Director Minxin Pei, Tallinn University of Technology Carlota Perez, Writer Göran Rosenberg, Professor Emma Rothschild, Professor Donald Sassoon, Foreign Correspondent Nathan Shachar, Professor Emeritus Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus Donald Winch.

On the Idea of America (2009)

Lecturers and Moderator: Professor Peter Baldwin, Senior Fellow Peter Beinart, Professor Kathleen Burk, Associate Professor David Ellwood, Journalist and Historian Godfrey Hodgson, President Jong-Yil Ra, Leader Writer Oliver Kamm, Professor Deepak Lal, Professor Anatol Lieven, Director John Lloyd, Bureau Chief Edward Luce, Professor Pauline Maier, Author Director Douglas Murray, Professor David Reynolds, Research Program Director Philippe Roger, Writer Göran Rosenberg, Chairman and co-founder Robert J Shapiro, Professor Anders Stephanson, Associate Professor Reinhold Wagnleitner, Professor Emeritus Daniel Walker Howe, Professor Alan Wolfe.

On Russia (2008)

Lecturers: Ms. Anne Applebaum, Mr. Erik Berglöf, Professor Per-Arne Bodin, Ambassador Rodric Braithwaite, Ms. Thérèse Delpeche, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Mr. Philip Hanson, Professor Geoffrey Hosking, F. Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, F. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Professor Dominic Lieven, Mr. Kadri Liik, Mr. Fyodor Lukyanov, Professor Andrei Melville, Professor Cathrine Merridale, Mr. Arkady Ostrovsky, Mr. Vladimir Ryzhkov, Ms. Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, Professor Konstantin Sonin, Mr. Dmitri Trenin, Professor Andrei Zorin. Moderators: Mr. John Lloyd, Mr Martin Ådahl.

What is the West? (2007)

Lecturers: Professor Sahin Alpay, Professor Philip Bobbitt, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Mr. David Frum, Professor Bo Huldt, Mr. Robert Irwin, Professor Hans Kollhoff, Professor David Landes, Professor Avishai Margalit, Mrs. Nadezhda Mihaylova, Mr. Pankaj Mishra, Professor Philip Nemo, Mr. Göran Rosenberg, Dr. Roger Scruton, Mr. Töger Seidenfaden, Dr. Robert Shapiro, Dr. Larry Siedentop, Mrs. Marina Warner, Dr. Georgios Varouxakis, Mr. Ibn Warraq. Moderator: Mr. Edward Lucas

The Secular State & Society (2006)

Lecturers and Moderator: Mr. Paul Berman, Mr. Theodore Dalrymple, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Professor Dogu Ergil, Mr. Lars Hedegaard, Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Professor Jonathan Israel, Professor Sunil Khilnani, Mr. Pierre Lellouche, Mr. Edward Lucas, Mr. Etyen Mahcupyan, Mr. Kenan Malik, Professor Tariq Ramadan, Dr. Hugh Roberts, Professor Olivier Roy, Dr. Carl Rudbeck, Mr. Paul Scheffer, Dr. Roger Scruton, Mr. Nathan Shachar, Professor Bassam Tibi, Dr. Charles Tripp and Mr. Ibn Warraq.

Empire and the Future World Order (2005)

Lecturers and Moderators: Dr. Peter Bender, Professor Philip Bobbitt, Professor Ian Buruma, Professor David Coleman, Mr. Robert Cooper, Mr. Niklas Ekdal, Professor William Kirby, Professor Deepak Lal,
Mr. Edward Lucas, Professor Charles Maier, Ms. Jan Morris, Ms. Christine Ockrent, Mr. Orhan Pamuk, Professor Richard Pipes, Mr. David Rieff, Professor György Schöplin, Mr. Tøger Seidenfaden, Mr. Nathan Shachar, Dr. Ross Terrill, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Lord Hugh Thomas.

Media and Media Power (2004)

Lecturers: Mr. Sidney Blumenthal, Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn, Mr. Niklas Ekdal, Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Mr. Jonathan Fenby, Mr. David Frum, Mr. David Goodhart, Professor Roy Greenslade, Ms. Isabel Hilton, Ms. Shuli Hu, Mr. Laurent Joffrin, Mr. John Lloyd, Mr. Edward Lucas, Mr. Adam Michnik, Ms. Anna Politkovskaia, Mr.William H. Roedy, Mr. Nathan Shachar, Mr. Thomas Steinfeld, Mr. Tarun Tejpal, Mr. Shashi Tharoor.

Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture? (2003)

Lecturers: Dr. Catherine Audard, Professor Elazar Barkan, Professor Emeritus Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus Norman Birnbaum, Professor Philip Bobbitt, Professor Dr. Michael Bommes, Professor Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Professor Emeritus Nathan Glazer, Editor-in-Chief David Goodhart, Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mr. Christopher Hitchens, Professor Russell Jacoby, Professor Jytte Klausen, Professor Adam Kuper, Mr. Kenan Malik, Mr. Richard Swartz.

Consciousness, Genetics and Society (2002)

Lecturers: Martin Alda, Luke Anderson, Erwin Bischofberger, Leonard Guarente, Richard Heinberg, Evelyn Fox Keller, Georg Klein, Kenan Malik, Johnjoe McFadden, Mary Midgley, Max More, Raja Ramanna, Hilary Rose, Steven Rose, Lee M Silver, Sverre Sjölander, Robert Wright, P. A. Zavos.

The Future of Religion (2001)

Lecturers: Withney Bodman, José Casanova, Harvey Cox, Erik Davis, Rolf Ekéus, Antoine Faivre, John Farrell, John F Haught, Paul Heelas, Massimo Introvigne, Robert Jay Lifton, Michael Maccoby, Morton Narrowe, Elaine Pagels, Gilles Quispel.

Visions of the Future (2000)

Lecturers: Harold Bloom, Ingvar Carlsson, Martin van Creveld, Rolf Ekéus, Bernt Ericson, Henry Etzkowitz, Kay Glans, Nils Karlson, David Kimche, Allan Larsson, Dan Laurin, Robert Jay Lifton, Mikael Löfgren, Michael Maccoby, Lars Magnusson, Anders Mortensen, Ulf Pettersson, Agneta Pleijel, Jeffrey Rosen, Göran Rosenberg, Johan Rådberg, Saskia Sassen, Robert J. Shapiro, Joan Solomon, Johan Svedjedal, Peter Sylwan, John Ziman.

The Swedish Success-Story? (1999)

Lecturers: Håkan Arvidsson, Henrik Berggren, Sheri Berman, Per Olof Bolander, Göran Dahl, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonas Frykman, Kristian Gerner, Kay Glans, Bernt Henningsen, Madeleine Hurd, Anders Isaksson, Alf W Johansson, Rune Johansson, Mikael af Malmborg, Per Molander, Ann-Sofie Ohlander, Olav Riste, Hans Ingvar Roth, Kim Salomon, Patrick Salmon, Fredrik Schoug, Bo Stråth, Rolf Torstendahl, Kjell Östberg.