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Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still Essential
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.
Date:
28 October 2025, 17:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 20.402
Speaker:
Professor Don Kalb (University of Bergen)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address:
labournetwork@torch.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/value-and-worthlessness-why-blurring-anthropology-and-history-is-still-essential
Cost:
free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Krisztina Lugosi
