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Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series, titled \u201cIncorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.\u201d\n\nAbstract: \u201cCorporations are often seen as purely economic actors, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries\u2014pioneers of democratic assembly, speech, citizenship, and constitutions. Many features of corporations, once grounded in democratic ideals, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds, the English East India Company, Alaska Native corporations, and caste-based corporations in India.\u201d\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday, Sept. 25\n\u201cCorporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction, Kinship, Jurisdiction\u201d\n\nFriday, Oct. 23\n\u201cFreedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion\u201d\n\nFriday, Nov. 13\n\u201cMeetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will\u201d\n\nFriday, Dec. 4\n\u201cSharing and Inequality in Corporations\u201d\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/j\/91475190155\n\nREGISTRATION IS APPRECIATED for planning purposes: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/e77Ax\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MATTHEW HULL\nMatthew Hull is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nexus of signification, technology, and institutions. His book, \u201cGovernment of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan,\u201d winner of the 2019 J.I. 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