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 […]