Bringing together anthropologists and social scientists working at the intersection of economy and ethics, we invite papers that draw on ethnography to explore how people conceptualize freedom in contemporary worlds of work, with a particular focus on: - The subject of work; - Work as a process...

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars from the social sciences working on the various aspects of human consumption of animal products. We want to engage in a discussion about what we know and do not know about the consumption of meat and dairy, its economic and environmental...

We invite project and paper contributions that are grounded in different disciplines and theoretical perspectives, including organization theory, strategic management, information systems, political science, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, legal studies, economic geography, business...

The Campus Symposium is a business conference with a difference! The event owes its unique nature not only to the special atmosphere of the marquee village, but in particular to the prominent speakers from politics, commerce, industry, society and research. On the two days, prominent celebrities...

New Commons – including Knowledge Commons, Cultural Commons and Global Commons – have become an increasingly important research subject in Commons studies. The workshop aims at adding to the understanding of Knowledge Commons and Seed & Variety Commons by especially addressing the following...

Workshop on the Consequences of Financial Capitalism in Eastern and Southern Europe. Topics: - the household as a social unit, object of financial technologies, and theoretical, analytical and statistical construct; - social relations and categories overlapping, crosscutting or enveloping...

Die zunehmende Digitalisierung von Produktion und Konsum verändert unsere Gesellschaft radikal. Konzepte wie Industrie 4.0 und das ‚Internet der Dinge’ werden als neue Wachstumsstrategien gepriesen, doch die sozial-ökologischen Implikationen dieser Entwicklung sind noch zu wenig...

The conference is devoted to the exploration of the interrelationships between socio-economic processes and human beings as biological organisms. Contributions in auxology, anthropometry, biocultural anthropology, demography, development economics, economic history, epidemiology, health...

Many of the global problems of our society emerge either by insufficient cooperation (e.g. poverty reduction) or excessive risk-taking (e.g. financial crises). Numerous empirical studies in the fields of psychology and economics have documented that human behavior is heavily influenced by...

The workshop’s agenda is to explore the underlying individual and social determinants of economic behavior, including interactions between these levels. Our approach draws on recent research in experimental economics and evolutionary biology suggesting that the successful emergence of...