Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still Essential

Labour Network

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 5pm
Seminar Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
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Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still Essential

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 5pm

Seminar Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

If you would like to attend, please email labournetwork@torch.ox.ac.uk

 

founding editor

Professor Don Kalb (University of Bergen) will speak on his new book Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism (Berghahn Books). He is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Academic Director of the GRIP program on global inequality (UiB/International Science Council, Paris). He is the Founding Editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.

 

 

 

If you have any further questions, please email labournetwork@torch.ox.ac.uk.

 

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