Soziologie

The symposium Understanding Risk in Time, Social Reproduction, and Market: The Commodification and Universalisation of a Social Construct brings anthropologists and sociologists together whose works have in one way or another illuminated risk’s varying relationship to time and space, social reproduction and the market. The discussants will reflect on the historical and cultural processes underpinning the production of risk as a universal category and its implications for social and political lives in our fastchanging world.

The symposium features Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Deborah James (London School of Economics; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2022/2023), Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld University), Andrea Muelebach (University of Bremen), Tobias Werron (Bielefeld University), and is moderated by Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld University; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2026/2027).

• Date: 16. October 2026
• Time: 16:00 – 18:00
• Participation in-person at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin is by invitation only
• To join online via Zoom, please register here! 

The symposium is part of the workshop The Anthropology of Risk in a Financialised World: Finance, Labour and Householding, hosted by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and funded by the European Research Council, Bielefeld University, and the FinancialLives project.

For further information, please refer to the symposium abstract and the workshop program.