Department of Anthropology Colloquium
“The Almost Failed Liberal Promise of Contracts’ Explicitness” by Ilana Gershon of Rice University
Event Details
Date
Today, October 13, 2025
Time
3:30 p.m.
Location
Description
In the contemporary U.S. (and elsewhere), contracts are a reliably recurring form that condenses the faulty promises of classic liberalism. I argue these promises are, in part, centered around the labor that explicitness is supposed to do in shaping social interactions and social relations under conditions of stranger sociality...
Cost
Free
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