Seminar on Moral Issues

School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

10 November 2010
Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State College, member of the IAS
          The Economy and Morality of Elopement in Rural Western Turkey
Yang Xiao, Kenyon College, visitor to the IAS
          When Political Philosophy Meets Moral Psychology: Confucius vs. Mencius

8 December 2010
Gabriella Coleman, New York University, member of the IAS
          Coding Freedom: The Pleasures and Ethics of Hacking
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University, member of the IAS
          Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America

26 January 2011
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
          Theoretical Genealogy of the Concept of Moral Economy
Steven Pierce, University of Manchester, member of the IAS
          The Moral Economy of Corruption in Nigeria

23 February 2011
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz, member of the IAS
           Moral Commitments in Anthropology
Mark Hewitson, University College London, member of the IAS
          Violence and Moral Norms During Twentieth Century Wars

23 March 2011
Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan, member of the IAS
            Novel Discourses on Religion and the Making of Modern Japan
Rohini Somanathan, University of Delhi, member of the IAS
            Contested Opportunities: the Paradox of Affirmative Action in India

13 April 2011
Manu Goswami, New York University, member of the IAS
            Autonomy and Comparability: Notes on the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
Cécile Laborde, University College London, member of the IAS
            What is a Free State? A Republican Account of State Sovereignty and International Justice

4 May 2011
Anna Sun, Kenyon College, member of the IAS
             Prayer as Social Action: A Sociological Consideration of Prayer and Agency
Judith Surkis, Harvard University, member of the IAS

             When was the Linguistic Turn? A Genealogy