***Sadly, Professor Comaroff will not be able to join us this year due to unforseen circumstances, however we hope to welcome to campus next semester. Stay Tuned for updates. Thursday event is still on and will now feature a full hour performance by Rainbow Dance Theatre!!!!!***

 

 

John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American studies and of anthropology, and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies.  Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2012, he was Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

 

He will be speaking to us on his most recent publication, Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa:

 

The Global South has become shorthand for the world of non-European, postcolonial peoples. Synonymous with uncertain development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations fraught with corruption, poverty, incivility, and strife, it is that half of the world about which the Global North spins theories. Rarely the Global South is seen as a source of theory and explanation for world historical events. Yet, as many nation-states of the Northern Hemisphere experience increasing fiscal meltdown, state privatization, corruption, ethnic conflict, and other crises, it seems as though they are evolving southward, so to speak, in both positive and problematic ways. Is this so? How? In what measure?

 

 

 

 

Professor Comaroff's visit has been genoursly sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Soceity, for more information, please visit their website: https://www.pbk.org/