Archive

 

Past Series and Events

 

Fiscal years and budget cycles, revolutionary plans and liturgical calendars — economies are always moral accounts. This year, OIKOS focuses on the ultimate medium: money.

Join us for reading groups, workshops, and colloquia about paperworkers, revolutionaries, and true believers as they count, confess, and convert their deeply held values into political projects and cosmic scales.

 

 

Conferences and Workshops

(Re)producing Financial Subjects A look at how we might expand discussions of financialization beyond macroeconomic indicators and recent ethnographic work in western financial centers

Narratives of Debt, in Collaboration with the Unpayable Debt Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University (2017)

OIKOS, the Conference (2018)

OIKOS Summer workshop series

Panel Camp (January 2025) co-founded by Shayan Momin and Arelí Rocha

Provisioning Collaborative Research at the 2025 Society for Cultural Anthropology

How do we provision research when traditional funding models fail? How do we support each other in the collaborative research that private and federal grants have not supported? How do we provision across life stages, intergenerationally, and sustain connections in anthropology and across disciplines? The fundamental structures of funding and supporting work within the university is changing. Several departments that would traditionally support research on gender and social reproduction are currently being minimized, terminated, or folded into one another. Ironically, the questions of kinship, household, relations, politics, economy, firms, and states have never been so apparent and important.

In this session, we will draw on our decade of experience organizing an interdisciplinary working group called Oikos: Kinship Economies. We will discuss strategies for provisioning reading groups, workshops, and conferences with minimal resources.  We will outline the strategies and approaches that we tried, what worked and what did not, and how the project has evolved over a decade-long life-cycle which includes various key events that affect researchers in their own life cycles (child-rearing, care-giving, tenure and promotion processes), as well as world-historical events, such as COVID shutdowns. From looking for empty spaces and unused time, to finding funds in odd places, to building provisions together and distributing them according to need, this session will begin with a discussion of strategies and tactics for provisioning inside, outside, and across institutions. Participants can come to share strategies, tactics, and processes they’ve used, or to share problems and look for solutions. We will gather the insights into a guidebook after the event.

 

 

Collaboration Partners and Past Supporters

Unpayable Debt Working Group at the Center for Social Difference, Columbia University

Race and Space Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge

Institute for Public Knowledge

Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing

Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University

Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University

Society for Cultural Anthropology

 

Past Participants and Speakers (An incomplete list 2015-2025)

Kali Akuno

Isra Ali

Erica Robles Anderson

Ainur Begim

Yarimar Bonilla

Finn Brunton

Antonieta Castro-Cosio

Buyun Chen

Lily Chumley

Ebony Coletu

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Nicholas D’Avella

Maria José de Abreu

Elizabeth DeLuca

Hannah Dick

Yige Dong

Michel Feher

James Ferguson

Melissa Fisher

Nancy Folbre

Nancy Fraser

Susan Gal

Jane Guyer

Eva Ilouz

Cristina Jenq

Bohyeong Kim

Tamara Kneese

Ke Li

Alain Loute

Miguel Luciano

Fabio Mattioli

Marc Michael

Sarah Molinari

Shayan Momin

Kelli Moore

Catarina Morawska

Bethany Moreton

Sarah Muir

Diane Negra

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Laine Nooney

Elayne Oliphant

Reece Peck

Gustav Peebles

Kim Phillips-Fein

Alissa Quart

Paolo Quattrone

Michael Ralph

Arelí Rocha

Juliet Schor

Natasha Dow Schüll

Joan Wallach Scott

C. Riley Snorton

Armond Towns

Benigno Trigo

Jing Wang

Eitan Wilf

Shari Wolk

Sylvia Yanagisako

Rihan Yeh

Caitlin Zaloom

Yueran Zhang