Venue: ELTE Centre for Social Sciences

1097 Budapest

Tóth Kálmán utca 4

Conference Room of the Institute for Legal Studies (T/0/25)

 

Don Kalb is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen. He is the Academic Director of the GRIP program on global inequality (UiB with the International Science Council) and the founding editor of Focaal – journal of global and historical anthropology.

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    Don Kalb (prof of social anthropology, University of Bergen): Value and Worthlessness. Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism. 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 with the research team members: Benedek Bozó, Fanni Dés, Balázs Gosztonyi, Márton Gosztonyi, György Málovics (with Boglárka Berki and Judit Juhász), György Molnár, Zsanna Nyírő, Orsolya Udvari, András Vígvári

11:30 – 11:40   Gergely Pulay (ELTE CSS): Post-feudalism and post-fascism in Hungarian social thought

11:40 – 11:50  Judit Durst (ELTE CSS & UCL): Low-end financialization in illiberal Hungary

11:50 – 12:00   Balázs Gosztonyi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology): Mapping household indebtedness

12:00 – 12:10  Fanni Dés (ELTE CSS): Exploitation and Dependence in the prostitution industry in North Hungary in the context of the local moral economy

12:10 – 13:00  Discussion