Invocations of freedom and the creation of publics – Soumhya Venkatesan
Audit Room, King's College, CambridgeIsaiah 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 […]
Book Forum – Making Better Lives
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 […]
Malinowski and the Argonauts: a hundred years of economic anthropology and the ethnographic method
LSE Houghton Street, LondonCentenary 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 […]
Ethics & Social Change: Economy, Religion, and Moral Transformation
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 […]
