Please join the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Study for a lecture by James Scott  Yale University who will speak on "In Praise of Floods" Friday, December 4, 2020 Award Ceremony at 4:30 p.m. ET | Lecture at 5:00 p.m. ET   About the 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize Laureate James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations, and anarchism. …