Professor Franklin was elected to the Cambridge University Chair of Sociology in June 2011 and took up her post on 1 October of that year. The following lecture was introduced by the Vice Chancellor, Leszek Borysiewicz, and the Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Martin Daunton. It was delivered in the Arts Lecture Theatre on the New Museums Site at 5pm on Wednesday October 30th 2013.