The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science

Keynote Lecture Video - 2021

The Experience of the Stranger: The Struggle to Find a Home and the Struggle to Welcome the Stranger"

Keynote Lecture Video - 2021

The Experience of the Stranger: The Struggle to Find a Home and the Struggle to Welcome the Stranger"

Evelyn Schutz Lang died peacefully at home on December 7, 2018, in New York City. She was born on May 22, 1933, in Vienna. She attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, and went on to graduate from the University of Rochester. She went on to create and run Data Operation Incorporated, which designed and developed data management systems, until she retired in the 1990’s. She was an avid skier,and arranged multi-person trips to places such as Colorado ski vacations, although her…

The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science mourns the death of Peter L. Berger who died on June 27th at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He studied with Alfred Schutz at the New School for Social Research in the 1950s and became one of the internationally most renowned sociologists in the second half of the 20th century. Berger was the author of a series of influential publications, most significantly of The Social Construction of Reality,…

After months of struggle with a spinal injury and complications, Lester Embree, Ph.D., passed away on January 19, 2017. He was Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University and received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 1972.

We commemorate Thomas Luckmann who passed away on May 10, 2016 at the age of 88. Thomas Luckmann (born at the 14th of October, 1927 in Jesenice/Slowenia) studied Philosophy, German Literature, Romance Philology and Psychology at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and the New School for Social Research, where he studied with Alfred Schutz. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in the year of 1956, and from 1960-65 he taught at the New School. When in 1965 he was offered a professorship at the…