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Retirement Celebration For John And Jean Comaroff

Retirement Celebration For John And Jean Comaroff

An international retirement celebration was held to honor the long, widely celebrated careers of John and Jean Comaroff on July 6, 2024. Held on zoom and timed to permit participants to join from across the world, over one hundred and twenty-five took part; many who...

COMAROFFS PUBLISH NEW ESSAY ON GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONALITY

COMAROFFS PUBLISH NEW ESSAY ON GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONALITY

John and Jean Comaroff recently published a pathbreaking new essay on a topic of critical importance in the contemporary world: generation and intergenerational relations. It focused on the social, material, cultural, political rationalities that different generations...

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION OF THE DIARY OF SOL T. PLAATJE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION OF THE DIARY OF SOL T. PLAATJE

The Boer War Diary of Sol. T. Plaatje, edited by John Comaroff, was first published in 1973 by Macmillan, along with a limited leather-bound edition put out simultaneously. Comaroff came across the manuscript of the diary – now a famous publication in South Africa –...

Statement of Professor John Comaroff Upon His Retirement

Statement of Professor John Comaroff Upon His Retirement

I have been blessed with a long, fulfilling career as a scholar and teacher. For several decades I have taught and mentored many hundreds of students, among them more than 200 Ph.D. candidates. Many have gone on to impressive careers in a variety of disciplines....

Free Beacon reports on petition

Free Beacon reports on petition

Reporter Aaron Sibarium covers higher education issues for The Washington Free Beacon. He reports on the petition being promoted by the Harvard Graduate Students Union to pressure the University. See the story here: 

Comaroff Attorneys Object to Union Petition

Comaroff Attorneys Object to Union Petition

Cambridge - John Comaroff's attorneys object to a Harvard Graduate Student Union petition now circulating that demands sanctions and shunning, and threatens tenure revocation, on the basis of mere allegations. Attorney Ruth O'Meara-Costello expresses shock that HLS...

Harvard Files Response to Amended Complaint

Harvard Files Response to Amended Complaint

Cambridge - On July 19, 2022, Harvard University filed an amended motion to dismiss Counts 1 through 9 of the complaint in Czerwienski v. Harvard University, with supporting documents, including an amended Memorandum of Law stating its legal arguments in support of...