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.

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.