Jointly organized by the Departments of International Development and Anthropology, this seminar series explores themes concerning the social life of the economy in its broadest sense.
Co-ordinators: Kate Meagher k.meagher@lse.ac.uk, Deborah James d.a.james@lse.ac.uk, Sohini Kar s.kar1@lse.ac.uk
This term sees an interesting set of broader events at LSE: we are ‘piggybacking’ on two of them.
Week 2: More than money? How Anthropology can offer richer analysis for economists
Thursday 7 October 2021, 2-3.30pm
Gillian Tett and Deborah Rowland
Anthropology has often been seen as an academic version of Indiana Jones - namely a discipline devoted to exotic travel that does not have much relevance for the modern world. However, Gillian Tett argues that this image is completely wrong today, and anthropology can make a vital contribution to public policy, corporate and financial life, as well as our communities as we try to "build back better" after COVID-19. Indeed, she argues that a world drowning in Artificial Intelligence and other digital innovations desperately needs a second type of "AI" - Anthropology Intelligence - to enable us to flourish. But what does this mean for the economics profession? Could economists benefit by embracing this new type of AI? Gillian Tett will debate this with Deborah Rowland.
Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
Deborah Rowland is a leading global thinker, speaker, writer, and coach in the field of leading big complex change. She is the co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works (Wiley, 2008), Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change (Wiley, 2017), and the Still Moving Field Guide: Change Vitality at Your Fingertips (Wiley 2020).
More information and to register for the event here. Questions about the event should be directed to d.patel20@lse.ac.uk.
For those who wish to get up to speed in advance of the event, Peter Tufano, the Dean of the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, interviewed Gillian about her book.
Week 7: Debt.
Friday 12th November
Keith Hart (Goldsmiths and LSE Emeritus Professor) & Maka Suarez (Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies Fellow).
This is one in a series of LSE Anthropology Research Seminars that explores the legacy of the thought of David Graeber, our late colleague. In each session, two anthropologists will lead a critical discussion on one of the key themes that interested him
Please sign up for this seminar here (and others in the series if you wish to)
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Week 11: Financial inclusion as future - the future of financial inclusion
Thursday 9th December, 5-6.30pm
Chris Harker (Institute of Global Prosperity, UCL)
Chris is a longstanding member of the seminar group and author of the recent acclaimed monograph Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine (2021: Duke University Press).