The Institute for Global Financial Integrity (TIGFI) is organising its 49th Finance Lunch event on Wednesday 26 October 2016 from 11:30 at the Cercle Munster in Luxembourg-Grund.
Marcel Henaff, philosopher and anthropologist and Professor at the University of California, San Diego, will speak on "The Gift Perverted: For an Anthropology of Corruption".
Marcel Hénaff is a philosopher and anthropologist, professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at the Universities of Copenhagen, Johns Hopkins, Kyoto and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He studied anthropology at the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
His main field of research is political philosophy and anthropology of political institutions, economic relationships, forms of social bond, reciprocity and symbolic practices. His books have been translated from French into English, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Korean. His most important book "The price of Truth" [Le Prix de la vérité] has received the 2002 Grand Prize of Philosophy of the French Academy.
Drinks are served starting at 11:30. The guest speaker will commence at 12:15.
Cost: €45 for members and €60 for non-members, to be paid beforehand to BCEELULL LU06 0019 3055 2757 2000. To register, see www.tigfi.org or e-mail: events@tigfi.org indicating your name and contact details. A no-show policy will be enforced.
