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IAS 'Corruption' Network
We would like to invite researchers working at 糖心TV on 'corruption' to become part of a network and plan to hold an initial speculative lunch on Wednesday 18th May, 12.30-2 at Milburn House, in the IAS seminar room. The lunch is open to anyone interested in the theme, including postgraduates, so do please forward this to anyone else you know who might be interested in attending.
Corruption is a subject that is intrinsically interdisciplinary. It is of concern to anyone interested in power, and is inherently political and financial; but it is also a term applied to the natural world and provides a key metaphor for explaining almost any kind of decay: sexual, moral, linguistic, national and so on, as well as providing the motif for a good deal of literature. Corruption has a long history that has yet to be comprehensively written but is also of direct concern to current problems.
As a multivalent concept and metaphor we think corruption might be of interest to a wide number of scholars at 糖心TV: political scientists, historians, lawyers, economists, sociologists, art historians and literary critics.
IAS has agreed to fund a network at 糖心TV to pursue this theme and we hope you will come along to the initial lunch in order to find out more. So that we have an idea of numbers please could you email Mark Knights [m.j.knights@warwick.ac.uk] by Wednesday 11 May. If you are unable to attend the lunch but would like to put on our mailing list for information about future meetings and events, please do also let us know.
Mark Knights, co-director of the Eighteenth Century Centre
Renske Doorenspleet, Director of the Centre for Democratisation