Wednesday 12th September, 2-4 pm
Hedley Bull 3, Ground floor off the atrium, ANU
Prof Karen Sykes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her recent books include Arguing with Anthropology: an introduction to critical theories of the gift. London: Routledge, 2005 and Sykes, K M. (ed.) Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes of a Global Age. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. She is currently directing a comparative research project, The Domestic Moral Economy: an ethnographic study of the value in the Asia Pacific.
Postgraduate students and early career researchers at the ANU are invited to attend this masterclass. They should send their names and a brief paragraph outlining their current research project to nicholas.mortimer@anu.edu.au by September 10, 2012. Selected participants will be sent copies of some of Prof Karen Sykes’s recently published work which will be the basis of discussion with her.
