2024-25

The Politics of Migration and Displacement as a Form of Life

2023-24

PLATFORM

2022-23

Climate Crisis Politics

2021-22

Political Mobilizations and Social Movements

2020-21

Science and the State

2019-20

Economy and Society

2018-19

Crisis and Critique

2017-18

The Social Sciences in a Changing World

2016-17

Law and the Social Sciences

2015-16

Borders and Boundaries

2014-15

Egalitarianisms

2013-14

The Environmental Turn and the Human Sciences

2012-13

Economics and Politics

2011-12

Morals and Moralities

2010-11

Secularism

2009-10

The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State

2008-09

Social Norms and Cooperation

2007-08

The Rule of Law Under Pressure

2006-07

The 'Third World' Now

2005-06

Psychology and Economics

2004-05

Interdisciplinarity and Its Objects

2001-04

Ethics and the Social Sciences: Present Directions

2003-04 The Social Implications of Bioethics
2002-03 Politics and Ethics: The Case of Corruption
2001-02 Economics and Business Questions

2000-01

Information Technology

1997-00

Globalization and the Different Kinds of Local Resistance to It: A Three-Year Program

1999-00 Universalism of Human Rights
1998-99 Political Economy
1997-98 Cultural Globalization

1993-97

Transitions: A Four-Year Program

1996-97 Development of “Interpretive Social Science”
1995-96 Modernization and Its Discontents
1994-95 Traveling Reform Movements: Feminism and Environmentalism
1993-94 Politics

1990-93

New Perspectives on Social Science and Humanities Scholarship: A Three-Year Program

1992-93 Philosophy and Sociology of Science
1991-92 Ethics, Politics and Law
1990-91 Philosophy of History

1987-90

Group Identities: A Three-Year Program

1989-90 National Identity in Post-Colonial Third World States
1988-89 Political Revival of Ethnicity and Religion
1987-88 Gender

1984-87

Interpretive Social Science: A Three-Year Program

1986-87 Research Methods in Interpretive Social Science
1985-86 Social Experience of Equality and Inequality
1984-85 The Life History of the Individual

1983-84

Toward a Broader Economics

1982-83

Social and Cognitive Psychology

1979-82

Self-Perception, Mutual Perception and Historical Development (This 3-year focus, jointly organized by the SSS and SHS, and funded by the Mellon Foundation, ran concurrently with the individual theme years.)

1981-82

Problems in Political Philosophy

1980-81

The Comparative Impact of Colonial Regimes on the Newly Independent Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America

1979-80

The Sociology of Art

1978-79

New Trends in Economic Thought

1977-78

Problems of Advanced Capitalist Societies

1976-77

The Sociology of Science

1975-76

The Analysis of Symbolic Structures

1974-75

The Social, Economic and Political Development of Latin America

1973-74

Islamic Societies