Moralities, Dependence, Solidarity and Racialization: Anthropologies of Capitalism Anthropology Research seminar with Michael Stewart

   26th March 2026 10:00 - 15:00, 26th March 2026 15:00

Venue: ELTE Centre for Social Sciences

1097 Budapest

Tóth Kálmán utca 4

PTJ, Room (?)

 

The research seminar is organised in the framework of the NKFIH project (K- 143543) titled “The moral economy of dependent relations in the era of financialization: Rethinking dependence and livelihood among the impoverished and the poor in Hungary”

 

Programme:

10:00 – 11:00    Michael Stewart (professor, UCL): Questions of Race and Nation: the Persecution of the Romany Peoples in Europe 1933-1945. Lecture, followed by Q & A

11:00 – 11:15  Coffee break

11:15 – 11:30  Judit Durst (ELTE CSS& UCL) & Gergely Pulay (ELTE CSS): Moralities of dependent relations in illiberal Hungary – a project introduction

11:30- 11:40   Balázs Gosztonyi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): Mapping household indebtedness

11:40- 11:50   Fanni Dés (ELTE CSS): Exploitation and Dependence in the prostitution industry in North Hungary in the context of the local moral economy

11:50 – 12:10   Q&A and Discussion

12:10 – 12:20  Margit Feischmidt (ELTE CSS & University of Pécs) (with Viola Zentai & Kata Ámon): Transformative solidarity: Work, Values, Hope

12:20 – 12:30  Ildikó Zakariás (ELTE CSS): Moral Anthropology of the activating state in Austria: The role of migrant teachers

12:30 – 12:40   Vera Messing (ELTE CSS): Notes on the Introduction of the Law of the “Defence of Local Self-Identity”

12:40 – 13:15  Q&A and Discussion

13:15 – 14:00  Lunch break

14:00 – 14:10   Cecilia Kovai & András Vígvári (ELTE KRTK): The formation of the Roma middle-class in the rural peripheries

14:10 – 14:20   Zsombor Csata (ELTE CSS & Babes Bolyai University): Rationality, Morality, and the Ethnic Segmentation of Markets: The Case of Transylvanian Hungarians

14:20 – 15:00  Q&A and  Discussion