Date: 23-27 June 2025 

Location: Gellért Campus 

All lectures are held in English. 

Through interdisciplinary lectures delivered by internationally renowned scholars, the Summer School will offer a rich program of reflection on the many faces and structures of power in science, politics, society, and the economy. 

The morning keynote lectures (8:30–10:00) will be held at the Gellért Campus and are open to all interested students and faculty members. 

23 June 2025, 8:30-10:00, G J501 

Prof. Rob Iliffe (University of Oxford) – From Labs to Networks: Science, Politics and Power 

Rob Iliffe is Professor of History of Science at Oxford, Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and a General Editor of the Newton Project. At Oxford he teaches general Undergraduate course on history of science and technology courses as well as more specialized courses on the Scientific Revolution, the history of modern physics, and the history of scientific racism and eugenics.   

His research interests lie within the following headings: environmental history, history of religion, history of science, Isaac Newton, material culture and science, relations between science and religion. 

24 June 2025, 8:30-10:00, G J101 

Dr. Monika Wulz (University of St. Gallen) – The Power of Knowledge and its Critics 

Dr. Monika Wulz is a philosopher and historian of science, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her research focuses on political and economic aspects of scientific knowledge. 

Using the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics as a point of departure, the lecture explores competing conceptions of economic knowledge and critiques of its scientific authority. 

25 June 2025, 8:30-10.00, G J501 

Dr. Marcus Morgan (University of Bristol) – Performing Power 

Marcus Morgan is a sociologist based in the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. 

His Summer School lecture will outline the main arguments of a forthcoming book, entitled Performing Power (Polity, 2025). The lecture will advocate for the importance of considering performance when attempting to understand how social power is shifted and maintained. 

26 June 2025, 8:30-10:00, G J101 

Prof. Constanze Binder (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Power in Economics and Politics 

Constanze Binder is full professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and co-director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE). Constanze’s research is on interface of philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on the analysis of freedom, responsibility and distributive justice in political philosophy and welfare economics, as well as on the ethics of individual and collective decision making in politics and economics.  

27 June 2025, 8:30-10.00, G J501 

Prof. Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki) – On the Authority of Economics and Economists 

Uskali Mäki is professor emeritus of practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, directing TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science. He is considered one of the pioneers establishing the field of philosophy of economics. His current research is mainly on models, interdisciplinarity, scientific realism, and social dimensions of science.  

It seems obvious that economics as an academic discipline and economists as experts enjoy both epistemic and normative authority in society as well as in academia. His lecture will examine the nature and sources of these types and domains of authority, and interconnections between them and with the exceptionally hierarchical structure of the discipline.