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 […]

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).

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. All are welcome; registration not required.

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Work, Ethics and Freedom 11–13 December, 2019 Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Convenor: Chris Hann, Johannes Lenhard (for the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change) Keynote: 6.00pm, 11th December 2018, Wolfgang Streeck (title to be announced) Explorations of the possibilities and perils […]

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. Abstract: Mistrust, no less than trust, can be intrinsic to positive conceptualisations of moral economy. In a critique of certain […]

Professor Diane Coyle will have a conversation with you on the 4th March at 5 pm in the Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge. Abstract: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MAX CAM EVENT: “INVESTING IN VALUES” – TWO KEYNOTE SPEECHES Bordering the surplus population across the Mediterranean: war, borders, and labour Lucia Pradella, Kings College London 13.00-14.00, Tuesday 18 February New Combination Room, Corpus Christi College The military and the business of border control are two expanding investment sectors. But what is their link to […]