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Oikos Workshop | Financial Planning as Self-Fashioning in the Age of Financialization

09/23 Friday | 1pm

The OIKOS Working Group and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a presentation and discussion with sociocultural anthropologist Ainur Begim about her work on financial planning as self-fashioning. Please email chumley[at]nyu[dot]edu for a copy of the paper. Begim’s work, based on 15 months of field research, examines the emergence of life insurance as a savings device for multi-generational households in postsocialist Kazakhstan. An oil-based economy,…

Book Launch

Book Launch | Michael Ralph’s Forensics of Capital

09/12 Monday | 6pm

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Forensics of Capital by Michael Ralph. The author will be in discussion with Gustav Peebles and Fatoumata Seck. As one of Africa’s few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the…

Book Launch

Book Talk | The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

04/25 Monday | 6pm

NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Race and Public Space working group invites you to join for a conversation with Aldon Morris and Thomas Sugrue about Morris’s latest book The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. In this groundbreaking book, Morris’s ambition is truly monumental: to help…

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