Aubert-forelesningen har vært holdt årlig siden 1991. Fra 1996 har forelesningen bestått av et seminar eller en debatt ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning og en forelesning ved Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.
Formålet har vært å feire fremragende sosiologi og sosial analyse, for på den måten å markere arven etter nestoren i norsk sosiologi, sosiologen og juristen Vilhelm Aubert (1922–1988).
Tidligere Aubert-forelesere
2025: Hartmut Rosa (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Perspectival Dualism: Resonance as a Subjective Experience and an Institutionalized Relationship (24. april, opptak fra UiO)
Seminar: Callability and Alienation: Social Energy, Political Discourse and the Crisis of Democracy. Se arrangementssiden (25. april, opptak).
2024: Donatella della Porta
Forelesning: Conspiracies, Pandemic and the Far Right: the Anti-Vax Protests as Regressive Forms of Contention (12. september)
Seminar: Moral Panic and Repression: The Contentious Politics of Anti-Semitism in Germany Se arrangementssiden (13. september).
2023: Gurminder K. Bhambra (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Empires and Nations: Or, A Political Economy of Colonialism (30. november)
Seminar: The Trouble with (Racial) Capitalism. Se arrangementssiden (1. desember, opptak).
2019: Andrew Abbott (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Facts and Values: A Processual View (4. juni, opptak fra UiO)
Seminar: Pervasions: The Large Impact of Small Things. Se arrangementssiden (5. juni).
2018: Patricia Hill Collins
Forelesning: Intersectionality, Unequal Citizenship & Political Solidarity (8. november)
Seminar: Not Just Ideas: Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Se arrangementssiden (9. november).
2017: Michèle Lamont
Forelesning: Getting Respect – Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (5. januar)
Seminar: Symbolic boundary work. Se arrangmentssiden (6. januar).
2015: Luc Boltanski
Forelesning: Mysteries and conspiracies: detective stories, spy novels and the making of modern societies (19. november)
Seminar: On critique (20. november)
2015: Cass Sunstein (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Fifty Shades of Manipulation (12. mai, opptak hos NRK)
Seminar: Extremism and Free Speech (12. mai, Fritt Ords lokaler i Uranienborgveien 2).
2013: Jeffrey Alexander (videoopptak)
Struggling over the Mode of Incorporation: The Backlash against Multiculturalism in Europe (15. mai, opptak fra UiO)
2013: Craig Calhoun (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Human Suffering and Humanitarian Response (18. oktober, opptak fra UiO)
Seminar: The Public Sphere and its Problems
2011: Anthony Giddens (videoopptak)
Forelesning: The Future of Social Democracy (opptak fra UiO – Del 1 og Del 2)
2010: Hans Joas (videoopptak)
Forelesning: Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline? Some empirically based reflections (opptak fra UiO)
Seminar: The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse
2009: Kathleen Thelen
Inequality and social solidarity? (30. januar)
2007: Nilüfer Göle
Seminar: Reflections on secular modernity in the light of Islam (12. september)
Forelesning: Islam challenges social science: revisiting private-Public (13. september)\
2006: Nancy Fraser
Seminar: Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World (25. september)
Forelesning: Abnormal Justice (26. september)
2005: Steven Lukes
Forelesning: Questions about power: Lessons from the Louisiana Hurricane (22. september)
Seminar: Power and Domination (7. oktober)
2004: Howard Becker
Forelesning: How Much is Enough? (6. oktober)
Seminar: Careers (7. oktober)
2003: Richard Swedberg
Forelesning: To Die for Others: Civic Heroism and Auguste Rodin's "Burghers of Calais" (13. september)
Seminar: Conflicts of Interest in the Corporate Scandals of 2001-2002 (14. september)
2002: Neil Smelser
Forelesning: Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice (30. mai hos ISF)
2000: Richard Sennett
Changing meaning of class. Forelesningen ble holdt i Gamle Logen, i forbindelse med ISFs 50 års jubileum. (8. februar)
1998: Helga Nowotny
Seminar: The objectivity trap: on current changes between science and society (17. september)
Forelesning: The myths of the new: coping with the dynamics of scientific and social innovation (18. september)
1997: Jürgen Habermas
Seminar: Normative Issues of Multiculturalism (18. september)
Forelesning: Beyond the Nation State: Reflections on the issue of Economic globalization (19. september)
1996: Carole Pateman
Seminar: Feminist theory and the enlightenment (5. september)
Forelesning: Democratization and citizenship in the 1990`s: The Legacy of T.H. Marshall (6. september)
1995: Arlie Hochschild
Seminar: Time as an Arena of Struggle (28. september)
Forelesning: Family, Work and Time as Locus of Symbolic Interaction (29. september)
1995: Pierre Bourdieu
Physical Space, Social Space and Habitus (15. mai)
1994: Robert Dahl
A Democratic Dilemma: System Effectiveness versus Citizen Participation (5. september)
1993: John H. Goldthorpe
Current problems of comparative macro sociology (29. september)
1992: Theda Skocpol
Theories of the Development of the Welfare State (23. oktober)
1991: Raymond Boudon
Explaining Ungrounded Beliefs (3. oktober)
1991: Robert K. Merton
The origin of the word “scientist” (2. september)