The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change (informally “Max-Cam”), an innovative collaboration funded jointly by the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Society, was formally established on 1 July 2017 and closed on 30 September 2022. The Centre was co-directed by James Laidlaw and Joel Robbins (Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University), Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale), and Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen), and was dedicated to pursuing fresh ethnographic research in fields of urgent concern to humanity today. The Centre’s official launch took place in Cambridge on the 6th March 2018.
Max Cam closed on September 30th 2022. This website will remain as an archive of our activities between 2018 and 2022.