Alihan Gök, holder of the LEST/Iméra Chair – Worlds of Labour for the second half of 2024-2025, will be speaking at the EHESS on March 25th, 2025.

Image extraite du film "Les temps modernes" avec Charlie Chaplin. Cette image illustre l'intervention d'Alihan Gök, résident 2024-2025 à l'Iméra : "Plus qu'une tâche: le travail comme activité humaine"

Image taken from the film ‘Modern Times’ (1936) with Charlie Chaplin, public domain (credit: Wiki Commons).

“More than a task: labour as a human activity”, a talk by Alihan Gök

Alihan Gök will be speaking at the Marseille campus of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) at the seminar Penser au-delà de l’état: (nouvelles) lectures en anthropologie politique (Thinking beyond the state: (new) readings in political anthropology) on March 25th, 2025.

His talk, entitled “More than a task: labour as a human activity”, as well as the seminar session, will be devoted to the notion of labour as a human activity and its relationship to freedom.

About the seminar”Penser au-delà de l’état : (nouvelles) lectures en anthropologie politique”

The seminar Penser au-delà de l’état : (nouvelles) lectures en anthropologie politique is led by Judith Scheele, a social anthropologist at EHESS. This seminar is based on a collective, attentive and contextualised reading of classic texts, more or less well known, recent works and certain texts on political philosophy, in search of new avenues for thinking. The approach is resolutely anthropological, developing arguments based on specific ethnographic cases.

Place, date and time of the talk

Date: Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Campus EHESS Marseille – Vielle Charité