Presentation abstracts Frank Ngo Pilgrims of the peripheral – Centers and peripheries between Japan and Christendom Pilgrimage shares many traits with tourism, and much of the anthropologies of the two […]
A Max-Cam public and virtual lecture In an interview with the Sunday Times two years after her stunning electoral triumph, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proclaimed “Economics are the method; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Centenary workshop – call for papers The publication in 1922 of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific inaugurated a golden age in social anthropology. Recent revisionist views notwithstanding, it […]
While scholars might once have been inclined to think of the economy as a driver of ethical transformation and religion as a force for the preservation of traditional moral ideas […]