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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T170000
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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: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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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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