The launch of the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change will take place on 6th March 2018 at 11:30am in the Maudslay Hall of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. There will be an associated symposium after the event at Trinity College - click here for more details […]
In association with the official launch ceremony in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Max-Cam Centre will be hosting a symposium in the Winstanley Room at Trinity College between 2pm and 6pm, during which Professor Caroline Humphrey and Professor Stephen Gudeman will act as discussants after short presentations from each of the Max-Cam research associates about their […]
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 […]