# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 5th Jack Goody Annual Lecture
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: This lecture will outline a comparative anthropological approach to the study of socialism. The first part will draw on the speaker's early (doctoral and postdoctoral) field research in Hungary and Poland, focusing on property relations in the transformation of backward rural societies under nominally Marxist-Leninist regimes. The last part will widen coverage to consider the "socialist impulse" in a context not conventionally considered socialist at all, namely West Africa, where Jack Goody drew analogies with sorcery accusations. In between, variants of what Goody termed "electoral socialism" can be found in the Mediterranean. This lecture is not intended as an antiquarian exercise: the socialist impulse remains indispensable for addressing contemporary threats to the planet. 

Speaker: Professor Chris Hann 
Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale) 

Chris Hann (born 1953, Cardiff) was Welsh Foundation Scholar at Jesus College, Oxford, 1971-1974. His PhD (Cambridge 1979) was a study of socio-economic change in rural Hungary. Later field research took him to Poland, Turkey (east Black Sea coast) and China (Xinjiang). His interests include economic anthropology and the historical anthropology of Eurasia. Between 1999 and 2021 he was a Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/valletta/5th-jack-goody-annual-lecture/200029976538024
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Valletta
- **state**: MA
- **country**: Malta
- **location**: University of Malta - Valletta Campus
- **lat**: 35.898554658454
- **long**: 14.515615409411
- **full address**: University of Malta - Valletta Campus, 158 Triq San Kristofru, Valletta, VLT, Malta

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is 5th Jack Goody Annual Lecture being held?
  - **A:** 5th Jack Goody Annual Lecture takes place on Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm at University of Malta - Valletta Campus, 158 Triq San Kristofru, Valletta, VLT, Malta.
- **Q**: Who is organizing 5th Jack Goody Annual Lecture?
  - **A:** 5th Jack Goody Annual Lecture is organized by Anthropology at UM.

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