Serdecznie zapraszamy na otwarty wykład prof. Chrisa Hanna pt. "Bronisław Malinowski and the Concept of Economy", który odbędzie się 11 czerwca o godz. 18.00 w Sali im. Władysława Kwaśniewicza (czytelnia IS UJ) przy ul. Grodzkiej 52 w KRakowie. Prof. Hann jest antropologiem społecznym, Dyrektorem w Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology w Halle (Niemcy). Wykład obywa się w języku angielskim.

Abstrakt wystąpienia:
Beginning with a brief consideration of the concept of economy in the history of Western thought, including reference to Malinowski's doctoral dissertation of 1908, the lecture will proceed to consider the impact of his studies in Leipzig and his later classical contributions to the development of economic anthropology. Is Bronislaw Malinowski a pioneer of approaches commonly subsumed nowadays under the category "moral economy"?

Prof. Chris Hann o sobie:

I was born and brought up in Wales, but my university education is from Oxford (BA 1974 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and Cambridge (PhD, Social Anthropology, 1979). I stayed on in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and later I became a lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology. Between 1992 and joining the Max Planck Society in 1999 I was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. My main interests date back to my undergraduate days and my first fieldwork projects in rural Hungary and Poland. I have outlined my continuing comparisons of these two field sites elsewhere on this web site (comparisons). My work on religion derives primarily from my encounter with the Greek Catholic minority in Poland, an interest that has recently expanded to eastern Christians in general. Since 2006 I have resumed fieldwork in Xinjiang and play an active role in the focus group investigating social support and kinship (together with Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann of Copenhagen University). I maintain my interests in comparative economic organization, partly through collaborative projects with Catherine Alexander, Stephen Gudeman, Keith Hart and Jonathan Parry. All of this work is designed to break down disciplinary boundaries and contribute to a better world-historical understanding of socialism and postsocialist change. In 2013 I was awarded a grant by the European Research Council, "Realising Eurasia: Civilisation and Moral Economy in the 21st Century". The concept of Eurasia, a frame for all research in the Department, has become increasingly important in my engagement with contemporary economic and political crises in Europe (REALEURASIA).