The departmental seminar is a program of monthly presentations and dialogue that gather students and faculty around the work of distinguished scholars from major research universities around the world. Our guests present papers which pertain directly to the research agendas pursued in the department. They concern empirical, theoretical and/or historical problems in the sociology and anthropology of contemporary life forms: emerging communal bonds and socialities, changing forms of social conflicts, violence and war, transforming state apparatuses of surveillance, networks and mobility in the context of a globalizing and urbanizing world.The seminar typically meets on Mondays once a month, at 5:30 p.m. All members of the CEU community are welcome to attend and participate.
Coordination and contact: Andreas Dafinger

UPCOMING EVENTS
17 October, 2011	Jan Breman	“The Great Transformation in the Setting of Asia”
7 November, 2011	Paul Jorion	“How does one become the anthropologist of the financial crisis? Fieldwork, participant observation, the closed world of bankers and what makes the anthropologist's toolbox so special”
28 November, 2011	Arun Saldanha	"EU Expansionism and the Biopolitics of Whiteness: Some Theoretical Reflections"

2011
January 17, 2011	Deborah James, London School of Economics	Making Money from Nothing: popular economies of credit and debt in South Africa
February 21, 2011	Doreen Massey, Open University	Space and Place in a Revolutionary Context: reflections on Venezuela
Feb 28 th, 2011	Patrick Laviolette, Tallinn University, Estonia	Chronic Sousveillance: Counter Hegemonic Responses to Domestic Medical Monitoring
March 28, 2011	Nitsan Chorev, Brown University	"Health in Economic Terms": The Neoliberal Turn at the World Health Organization
May 25, 2011	Moishe Postone, University of Chicago	Geist as Capital:Lukacs and Marx on the Historical Subject

2010
February 22	John Clarke, Open University, UK	“Assembling Publics, Translating Policy: New Directions”
March 22	Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan	"The State of the Art of Central European Anthropology"
March 15	Doreen Massey, Open University
June 07	George Steinmetz, University of Michigan	Sociologists in the Field of Sociology: The Imperial Entanglements of Sociology in Germany, France, Britain and the United States since the 19 th century
October 4, 2010	Boris Nieswand, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity, Göttingen.	Diaspora and Development. Ghana and its migrants.
October 18, 2010	Michaela Pelican, University of Zurich	Urban Lifeworlds of Cameroonians in Dubai
October 25, 2010	Krisztina Fehervary, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Socialist Generic: Product Branding And State Legitimacy In Hungary
November 8, 2010	Terence Turner, Cornell University	Transformations and Adaptation of Marxian Value Theory
November 12, 2010	Jean and John Comaroff, University of Chicago	Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa.
November 22, 2010	Alpa Shah, Goldsmiths, London
December 6, 2010	Petra Rethmann, MC Master University	What should be done?: art, activism, and "alternativnost" in Russia

 

2009
December 7	Jörg Raab, Tilburg University	“From Words to Numbers to Graphs: A Suggestion on How to Analyze Inter-Organizational Networks Using Archival Sources”
November 23	Monica Krause , University of Kent	“The Logic of Relief: Humanitarian NGOs and Global Power”
November 2	Filip de Boeck, Leuven University	Agamben in Camp Luka: Death and the Public Sphere in a Kinshasa Slum
June 9-10.	Peter Berger Boston University	Adventures with Sociology - An "Ego-History"
May 11.	David Berliner, Bruxelles	"UNESCO and the Politics of Nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)"
March 23.	Tony Robben, (Utrecht University)	"Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Anthropological Study of the Iraq War"
March 2.	John Clarke, (Open University)	"After Neo-liberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare"
February 16.	Jane Burbank, (NYU)	"Under the Umbrella of the Law: Litigation, Supervision, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial Russia"
February 16.	Frederick Cooper, (NYU)	"From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? Nationality and Citizenship in France and French Africa, 1945-1960"