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SUMMARY:Ethics & Social Change:  Economy\, Religion\, and Moral Transformation
DESCRIPTION:While scholars might once have been inclined to think of the economy\nas a driver of ethical transformation and religion as a force for the\npreservation of traditional moral ideas and practices\, it has become\nclear that the relation between religious and economic dimensions\nof moral change is much more complex and multi-dimensional. This\ninterdisciplinary conference aims to explore the part played by religious\nand economic factors in how moral change comes about\, and what this\ncan tell us about the fundamental character of ethical life. Both religion\nand ‘the economy’ are sometimes imagined as being exceptional in\nrelation to ‘everyday life’\, and sometimes as the fundamental grounding\nof social life. What role do specifically religious and economic ideas\,\nvalues\, and judgements play in people’s ethical imagination\, reflection\,\nand conduct? Do what we call religious and economic values motivate\nconduct in similar or divergent ways\, and how do they motivate change?\nDo they possess different kinds of authority\, or do they draw from the\nsame sources of legitimacy? Where do they support each other and\nwhere are they in conflict? Does ritual belong to both domains\, or is it\nat bottom religious? What role does ritual play in shaping ethical life\nand motivating ethical change? We invite many different approaches\nto these and a wide range of related questions\, including those from\nanthropology\, sociology\, theology\, philosophy\, and history. Our goal is\nto deepen interdisciplinary discussion of the ethical dimension of human\nsocial life.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/ethics-social-change-economy-religion-and-moral-transformation/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220706
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SUMMARY:Malinowski and the Argonauts:  a hundred years of economic anthropology and the ethnographic method
DESCRIPTION:Centenary workshop – call for papers\nThe publication in 1922 of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific inaugurated a golden age in social anthropology. Recent revisionist views notwithstanding\, it is widely regarded as inaugurating modern ethnographic methods\, as well as being a landmark for the sub-field later known as economic anthropology. Malinowski’s analysis of kula and gimwali has been appropriated by authors from Firth\, Herskovits\, Mauss and Polanyi down to the very latest journal articles and textbooks in the twenty-first century. \nCloser inspection reveals significant disagreements and uncertainty as to what the author really meant. Is he a proto-substantivist who would endorse the metaphor of the “embedded economy” popularized later by Thurnwald and Polanyi? Or is he\, despite polemics against homo economicus\, in reality a proto-formalist\, whose individual Trobrianders are motivated by a universal rationality of utility maximization? Does his concept of “tribal economy” betray a latent evolutionism? What exactly does “economy” mean for Malinowski? Can production\, exchange and consumption be investigated in the terms applied in modern economies\, or should they be approached everywhere through relationships grounded in kinship and politics\, and practices of magic and ritual? \nPapers are invited that consider these and other implications of Malinowski’s work from the perspective of the sub-field as it flourishes a century later. The opening session will focus on the history of the sub-field\, while others will present fresh ethnographic materials and insights into anthropology of economy. For those focusing on the former\, participants are encouraged also to engage with earlier and later publications (such as the article on “primitive economics” published in the Economic Journal in 1921\, the monograph Coral Gardens and their Magic\, with its rich materials on garden work and property\, and the posthumous study of a Mexican market system\, co-authored with Julio de la Fuente). Attention will also be paid to Malinowski’s early formation in Cracow (notably his doctoral dissertation on the “economy of thought”) and to his time in Leipzig (notably his exposure to the evolutionism of economic historian Karl Bücher). \nSend paper proposals/abstracts by 31st January 2022 to the organisers: Deborah James d.a.james@lse.ac.uk and Chris Hann hann@eth.mpg.de
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/malinowski-and-the-argonauts-a-hundred-years-of-economic-anthropology-and-the-ethnographic-method/
LOCATION:LSE\, Houghton Street\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Forum – Making Better Lives
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the publication of the Centre Coordinator Johannes Lenhard’s book\, Making Better Lives: Hope\, Freedom and Home-Making among people sleeping rough in Paris\, we will host an online book forum on Wednesday June 8th. The discussion will be kicked off by short contributions from Michele Lancione (Torino)\, Luisa Schneider (Amsterdam)\, Chris Herring (Harvard/UCAL) and Lindsey McCarthy (Sheffield Hallam). \nJune 8th\, 5-6pm UK time\nZoom: https://tinyurl.com/zj8jvw97 \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/book-forum-making-better-lives/
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SUMMARY:Invocations of freedom and the creation of publics – Soumhya Venkatesan
DESCRIPTION:Isaiah Berlin remarks that  ‘almost every moralist in history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness\, like nature and reality\, the meaning of this term is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems to be able to resist.’ (1971: 121). In this paper\, I draw on fieldwork among self-identified economically right-wing libertarians in England to explore the diverse ways in which they invoke freedom and\, more specifically\, particular freedoms that they identify as under threat. How do these invocation of freedom create publics who actively advocate for lower taxes\, a smaller state and the preservation and enhancement of individual liberties\, and seek to shape the state accordingly? What does ‘freedom’ look like when yoked to a particular economic\, social and political vision\, and render it powerfully persuasive in contemporary England?
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/invocations-of-freedom-and-the-creation-of-publics-soumhya-venkatesan/
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King’s College\, Cambridge
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SUMMARY:Re-searching Purpose and Vocation
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URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/re-searching-purpose-and-vocation/
LOCATION:Cambridge
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Forum: Taxis vs. Uber
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host the (un)official launch party for our Philomathia/Max Cam scholar Juan del Nido on March 3rd. We will have a fantastic line up of speakers present to discuss Juan’s book and will be able to spend two hours together to think through his work and broader questions on taxis\, Uber\, technology\, platforms\, and politics\, in Buenos Aires and beyond. All are welcome and please use the zoom link:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89653751264?pwd=T3pyTWdEZXFJWGloVWlMczcxdHNBUT09
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/book-forum-taxis-vs-uber/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211111T173000
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SUMMARY:Daromir Rudnyckyj – The Protestantism of Neoliberalism
DESCRIPTION:A Max-Cam public and virtual lecture\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times two years after her stunning electoral triumph\, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proclaimed “Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” This lecture contends that the deployment of religious notion of the soul and Thatcher’s well-documented commitment to neoliberal economic principles are no simple coincidence. Rather\, the lecture demonstrates how Protestantism is a critical condition of possibility for the emergence of neoliberalism. Drawing on the insights of Max Weber and Michel Foucault\, the lecture demonstrates how both Protestantism and neoliberalism are premised on a common set of formal dispositions and ethical practices. The elective affinity between Protestantism and neoliberalism is evident insofar as both entail the rationalization of a totalizing system\, reflexive responsibilization\, the rejection of the pastoral function\, the assimilation of labor\, the compulsion for action in conditions of unknowability\, and the economization of power. In so doing the lecture provides greater analytical purchase on and empirical understanding of some of the foundational economic rationalities that have shaped recent world events. \nThe public lecture is also available virtually via Zoom.  For those who want to join the virtual lecture\, please send an e-mail before 12 noon on 11th November to Connie Tang (pyt20@cam.ac.uk) for registration.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/daromir-rudnyckyj-the-protestantism-of-neoliberalism/
LOCATION:Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210317T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210318T160000
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SUMMARY:The Moral Affordances and Social Changes of Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Presentation abstracts\nFrank Ngo\nPilgrims of the peripheral – Centers and peripheries between Japan and Christendom \nPilgrimage shares many traits with tourism\, and much of the anthropologies of the two realize both forms of mobility draw from one another to fulfill religious\, economic\, or leisurely ends. In this paper I inquire what social changes come about when Japanese Catholic students partake in movement between Japan and the rest of the Catholic world. They may move as pilgrims\, tourists\, sometimes both\, but are animated by their consciousness of an institution-wide Catholic identity. \nI contextualize the movement of Japanese Catholic students in historic attempts of the Catholic Church to evangelize Japan as well as contemporary attempts in the New Evangelization project. Mobility to and from the center of Catholicism – Europe – is intended to open or deepen religious possibilities for the students. I look at how pilgrimage and the touristic element of authenticity are key to making claims to the Christendom the New Evangelization seeks to revive. \nKeywords: Catholicism\, center-peripheral\, pilgrimage\, Christendom\, New Evangelization \n  \nAlice Yeh\nThe migratory vocation: risk and divine authentication at the airport border    \nThis paper explores the themes of risk\, rationality\, and religious calling as they emerge in the moral and migratory trajectories of Chinese Catholics. I focus in particular on the narrative of a Chinese priest passing through a Canadian airport en route to the United States. How has the confessional politics of Catholic identitarianism been mobilized into religious callings\, first from the village to the city and later from China to overseas Chinese communities? As parishioners and priests alike are “at risk” waiting – whether for the reunion of underground and government-affiliated churches\, for greater religious freedom\, or for divine agency to move toward its end – they increasingly entangle moral and economic forms of capital\, framing upward or international mobility as the solution to spiritual and ecclesial risk. Building on fieldwork conducted in Hangzhou and New York in 2018\, I show how risk as conceived by Chinese Catholic immigrants (and would-be immigrants) functions as an ironically state-centric indicator of moral mobility. \nKeywords: risk\, migration\, transnational China\, Catholicism \n  \nIris Pakulla\nMobility in mining landscapes: the case study of Khanbogd   \nIn the Southern Gobi mining belt ​of Mongolia\, the presence of one of the world’s biggest copper and gold mine\, the Oyu Tolgoi (turquoise hill)​\, has triggered a process of resourcification (High\, 2010) and land dispossession resulting in the unfolding of sedentarisation. Paying attention to the material and immaterial ways in which mobile pastoralists’ trajectories are being altered\, regulated\, and obstructed\, this paper elaborates on “constellations of mobility”. These refer to entanglements of historical patterns of movement\, narratives about mobility\, and mobile practices (Cresswell\, 2010) that emerge\, change and coexist in Khanbogd. While elaborating on discontinuities and new spatial boundaries\, the discussion opens up to herders’ experiences of displacement. \nKeywords: Gobi Desert\, mobile pastoralism\, mining\, constellations of mobility\, discontinuities\, frictions \n  \nJoy Xin Yuan Wang\nSilence and care: Taiwanese immigrants in Singapore \nEveryday life is the space of all forms of concealments- little lies that keep life going\, erasures that allow us to start again\, feints that trick us into thinking that life is bearable. In this paper I aim to discuss one of these forms of concealment.  Through drawing on Clara Han’s (2012) reading of Veena Das (2007) notion of the ‘moral energy of silence’ I explore how it is through the silencing of the self  that another – a child\, a parent\, a friend – might move through life encumbered; and how silence as a space of half truths and partial knowledge is generative of imaginative possibilities that turn troubling memories into material for ethical affordances. I do so by exploring the constellations of speech and silence of a group of Taiwanese migrants in Singapore whose lives dovetailed both fleetingly with the exodus of 1949; and more substantially and concretely with the 28 years of Martial law that lasted from May 1949 to July 1987. \nKeywords: silence\, care\, migrants\, memory \n  \nPhilippe Thalmann\nPious subjectivities\, entertainment and mobility in Saudi Arabia\nTBC \nKeywords: Arabian Peninsula\, youth\, piety\, entertainment\, aspirations \n  \nAude Franklin \nConstructing family and kinship ties – The case study of refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo in Kampala (Uganda).  \nThis paper explores the making of family and kinship ties in mobility context\, building on a six-month fieldwork conducted in the domestic spaces of Congolese refugees in Kampala (Uganda). Rather than considering the family as a core of solidarity\, I will question it as an actualization\, a group that depends on the adherence and investment of its members to make it last\, despite the strong external and internal constraints that pressure families. I will do so by focusing on Milka\, Esther and their children household and describing the specific responses they mobilize to ensure their economic stability\, physical security and existential balance. \nKeywords: family\, kinship\, situation(s) of mobility\, Uganda\, Democratic Republic of Congo
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/the-moral-affordances-and-social-changes-of-mobility/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201126T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201126T173000
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Chong – Management consulting\, the UK’s pandemic response\, and the ethical basis of expertise
DESCRIPTION:Please send an email before 12 noon on 26th November to Connie Tang (pyt20@cam.ac.uk) to register.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/kimberly-chong-management-consulting-the-uks-pandemic-response-and-the-ethical-basis-of-expertise/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200629T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200630T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20200623T113007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T113825Z
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SUMMARY:What's kinship got to do with it? Two-day online workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to explore and untangle various configurations of three anthropological categories: kinship\, ethics\, and economics. While kinship was once the defining topic of study for anthropology\, it has fallen out of fashion in recent years. Anthropology may have lost analytical sight of kinship\, but this aspect of human life is still very salient in the lives of people everywhere. With this workshop\, we reintroduce kinship as a dynamic factor in ethical and economic life in the pursuit of anthropological theory that more accurately captures the complexities of the world. \nBased on 12 ethnographically grounded digital presentations released on 22nd June\, participants will come together via Zoom on 29th and 30th June to discuss possible routes towards these new theories. The discussion will be amplified and guided by three “Impulse” Lectures given by Janet Carsten\, Fenella Cannell\, and Evan Killick. If you would like to attend\, please fill out the google form here. \nFull details of discussants\, participants and a timetable are here.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/whats-kinship-got-to-do-with-it-two-day-online-workshop/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200527
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
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SUMMARY:Daromir Rudnyckyj (Victoria) – Public lecture
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/daromir-rudnyckyj-victoria-public-lecture/
ORGANIZER;CN="Max%20Planck-Cambridge%20Centre%20for%20Ethics%2C%20Economy%20and%20Social%20Change":MAILTO:maxcam@socanth.cam.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200417
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20200305T121745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200305T121745Z
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SUMMARY:Financialization conference
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URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/financialization-conference/
LOCATION:Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Max%20Planck-Cambridge%20Centre%20for%20Ethics%2C%20Economy%20and%20Social%20Change":MAILTO:maxcam@socanth.cam.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200218T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200218T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20200124T100802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T095136Z
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SUMMARY:Investing in Values - key note announcement
DESCRIPTION:MAX CAM EVENT: “INVESTING IN VALUES” – TWO KEYNOTE SPEECHES \nBordering the surplus population across the Mediterranean: war\, borders\, and labour \nLucia Pradella\, Kings College London \n13.00-14.00\, Tuesday 18 February \nNew Combination Room\, Corpus Christi College \nThe military and the business of border control are two expanding investment sectors. But what is their link to the food we consume? And what do labour conditions in agriculture tell us about the nature of value and investment in the contemporary global economy? My paper discusses the impact of the NATO war on Libya and the externalization of EU borders in the Mediterranean upon the development of labour exploitation and unfree labour in the agricultural sector in southern Europe\, looking in particular at the case of Italy. Focusing on the period between the 2007/8 crisis\, the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and 2018\, I trace the links between the pillaging of Libyan resources and the exploitation of immigrant workers in Libya and in Italian agriculture\, as well as the role of the Italian state and Libyan state and non-state actors in containing and disciplining a reserve army of black African labour through a brutal system of detention\, extortion and forced labour. This system both traps immigrants in Libya and pushes them towards Europe. Agri-business and retail corporations operating in Italy have benefitted from the import of cheap energy and vulnerable workers from Libya. Immigrants’ experiences of violence and forced labour in Libya can play a disciplining role when they arrive in Italy\, but can also encourage them to mobilize and reclaim their collective rights. The paper concludes with a reflection on the role of war and borders in a new era of global revolt. \n  \nMaterial Political Economy  \nDonald MacKenzie\, University of Edinburgh \n19.00-20.00\, Tuesday 18 February \nMcCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College \n‘Material political economy’ is a perspective on finance (and similar markets) that takes all three of those words seriously. It probes the material foundations of finance; examines the politics of those foundations (both in the actor-network theory sense of ‘material politics’ and in the effect on finance’s materiality of the interaction between finance and the political system); and is attentive to the economics of finance\, especially to finance’s mundane money-making. \nThe main case that will be examined is automated\, ultrafast high-frequency trading or HFT\, but two other cases will be discussed more briefly: decentralised cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum; and online advertising\, especially realtime bidding. \n 
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/investment-into-values-key-note-announcement/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191214
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
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SUMMARY:Max Cam Conference "Work\, Ethics and Freedom"
DESCRIPTION:The first Max Cam conference\, organised by the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics\, Economy and Social Change (Max-Cam)\, will be held from 11 to 13 December 2019.  It examines labour relations in the twenty-first century and how they conflict with or strengthen the ethics of human freedom. Social discourses on this topic are frequently marked by extreme positions: on one side of the debate\, work is interpreted as emancipatory; on the other\, the wage labour system and all its neoliberal variants are seen as a threat to individual freedom and the democratic constitution of society.  Please see the conference programme.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/max-cam-conference-work-ethics-and-freedom/
LOCATION:Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology\, Halle\, Advokatenweg 36\, Halle\, 06114\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Social%20Anthropology":MAILTO:hann@eth.mpg.de
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191014T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191014T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20190912T101756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T115820Z
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SUMMARY:Indebted: Student Finance\, Social Speculation\, and the Future of the US Family
DESCRIPTION:Professpor Caitlin Zaloom will give a lecture entitled “Indebted:  Student Finance\, Social Speculation\, and the Future of the US Family” on 14th October at 5:30 p.m. in the McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge.  Abstract: The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class experience in the United States today. As costs rise beyond what any could have predicted\, students and parents alike agonise over whether to take on the burden of loans to try and achieve the promise of higher education. This talk will examine the hidden consequences of student debt\, drawing on wide-ranging interviews with parents and students to examine how these conflicting contemporary pressures have transformed family life.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/indebted-student-finance-social-speculation-and-the-future-of-the-us-family/
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Benet Street\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T183000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
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SUMMARY:The ethics of numbers\, the ethics of growth
DESCRIPTION:Professor Diane Coyle will have a conversation with you on the 4th March at 5 pm in the Keynes Hall\, King’s College\, Cambridge. \nAbstract: On March 4th (5 pm-6:30 pm) MaxCam Centre Coordinator Johannes Lenhard will host Prof Diane Coyle at Keynes Hall\, King’s College\, Cambridge for an open conversation. Lenhard and Coyle\, who was recently appointed Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge\, will talk about GDP\, the difference between growth and progress and the role of politics in regulating the economy among others before opening up the session to questions from the floor. \nAll are welcome; registration not required. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, please complete the form below\n \nYour Name (required)\n \n\n \nYour Email (required)\n \n\n \nOrganisation\, affiliation (if applicable)
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/the-ethics-of-numbers-the-ethics-of-growth/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20190206T111512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T095849Z
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SUMMARY:Disjunct Moral Economies at the Russia-China-Mongolia border
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey will give a lecture entitled “Disjunct Moral Economies at the Russia-China-Mongolia border” on the 26th February at 5 p.m. in the Edmund Leach room at the Department of Social Anthropology\, Cambridge. \nAbstract: Mistrust\, no less than trust\, can be intrinsic to positive conceptualisations of moral economy. In a critique of certain approaches to global trade\, Professor Humphrey will in this lecture suggest that researchers should interest themselves in the moral economies of states and governments as well as those of local actors. Accounts of three contrasting operations – historical as well as ethnographic studies of business transactions at the Russia-China-Mongolia border – will serve as examples of this argument. In each of them business and state operations intersect\, comprising a different formulation of trust / mistrust related to practical interactions and socio-cultural separations.  \nAll are welcome; registration not required. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, please complete the form below\n \nYour Name (required)\n \n\n \nYour Email (required)\n \n\n \nOrganisation\, affiliation (if applicable)
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/disjunct-moral-economies-at-the-russia-china-mongolia-border/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190502
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20181220T125701Z
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS \nWorkshop \n Work\, Ethics and Freedom \n11–13 December\, 2019 \nVenue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology\, Halle/Saale\, Germany \nConvenor: Chris Hann\, Johannes Lenhard (for the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics\, Economy and Social Change) \nKeynote: 6.00pm\, 11th December 2018\, Wolfgang Streeck (title to be announced) \nExplorations of the possibilities and perils of work in the twenty-first century are often animated by morally-charged ideas of human freedom. While such discussions oscillate between „soaring‟ conceptions of liberation from all constraints and abject evocations of any constraint as „subjection‟\, anthropologists have generally sought to investigate how freedom is variably constituted through social relations and cultural values. In societies dominated by labour markets based on a principle of formally „free‟ wage labour\, anthropologists have built on Karl Polanyi‟s approach to economy as „instituted process‟ to investigate comparatively how the exercise of freedom is shaped. Polanyi was worried about the implications of the “machine age” for democracy. What would he make of the gig economy that now flourishes alongside flexibilization and precaritization? \nBringing together anthropologists and social scientists working at the intersection of economy and ethics\, we invite papers that draw on ethnography to explore how people conceptualize freedom in contemporary worlds of work\, with a particular focus on: \n\nThe subject of work\nWork as a process and experience\nWork and institutions\, labour in and out of the market\nLabour relations and the politics of work\nThe value and meaning of work\n\nProposals (up to 250 words) should be sent by email to Chris Hann (hann@eth.mpg.de) before 1st May 2019. Scholars whose proposals are accepted will have all costs reimbursed. \nMore information concerning the Max-Cam Centre can be found at: http://www.eth.mpg.de/4824356/Max_Cam
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/call-for-papers/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20180608T114709Z
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SUMMARY:How We Became Very Rich and Pretty Good: Ethical Change 1600-1800
DESCRIPTION:Professor Deirdre McCloskey will give a lecture entitled “How We Became Very Rich and Pretty Good: Ethical Change 1600-1800” on the 9th October 2018 at 5pm in the McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge. \nAll are welcome; registration not required. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register for this event\, please complete the form below\n \nYour Name (required)\n \n\n \nYour Email (required)\n \n\n \nOrganisation\, affiliation (if applicable)
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/how-we-became-very-rich-and-pretty-good-ethical-change-1600-1800/
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Benet Street\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Max%20Planck-Cambridge%20Centre%20for%20Ethics%2C%20Economy%20and%20Social%20Change":MAILTO:maxcam@socanth.cam.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T103000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20180730T120520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180730T120622Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Masterclass with Deirdre McCloskey
DESCRIPTION:Professor Deirdre McCloskey will be holding a PhD masterclass on the 9th October\, 9-10:30 am in the Department of Social Anthropology (Edmund Leach room).
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/phd-masterclass-with-deirdre-mccloskey/
LOCATION:Department of Social Anthropology\, University of Cambridge\, Free School Lane\, Cambridge\, CB2 3RF\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Max%20Planck-Cambridge%20Centre%20for%20Ethics%2C%20Economy%20and%20Social%20Change":MAILTO:maxcam@socanth.cam.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180531T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180531T190000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20180322T162403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180522T124640Z
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SUMMARY:Valuation\, Evaluation\, Devaluation: Sexuality and Scopic Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:For the first public lecture organised by Max Cam in Cambridge\, we are welcoming Eva Illouz (Sociology\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on May 31st at the Winstanley Theatre (Trinity). After international successes with her books on love and intimacy in the contemporary capitalist world (Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation\, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism)\, she will present current work on value and sexuality. Everyone is welcome.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/first-workshop-on-value/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180306T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180306T180000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20180211T145159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T115412Z
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SUMMARY:Max-Cam Launch Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In association with the official launch ceremony in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, the Max-Cam Centre will be hosting a symposium in the Winstanley Room at Trinity College between 2pm and 6pm\, during which Professor Caroline Humphrey and Professor Stephen Gudeman will act as discussants after short presentations from each of the Max-Cam research associates about their work.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/max-cam-launch-workshop/
LOCATION:Trinity College\, Cambridge\, Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire\, CB2 1TQ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180306T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180306T130000
DTSTAMP:20231208T120741
CREATED:20171220T113821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T115552Z
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SUMMARY:Official Launch Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The launch of the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics\, Economy and Social Change will take place on 6th March 2018 at 11:30am in the Maudslay Hall of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. \n\nThere will be an associated symposium after the event at Trinity College – click here for more details or here for the full programme.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/centre-launch/
LOCATION:Maudslay Hall\, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
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