From 11 to 13 December our first conference entitled “Work, Ethics and Freedom” will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI) in Halle.  Using case studies, social anthropologists, sociologists, and legal scholars will discuss what is understood as “work” today and what rational, emotional, moral, and even spiritual dimensions work can have in various contexts.  It will open on 11 December at 18:00 with a keynote by Wolfgang Streeck, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.