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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...
John Comaroff Publishes A Reflection On Sovereignty, Postcoloniality And The Commodification Of Traditional Authority In South Africa
A number of ‘customary’ African kings and chiefs – historically accountable to the will of their subjects – have sought to turn their offices into lucrative sources of accumulation; indeed, into a form of monopoly capital founded on the assertion of a political...
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
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 –...
Case against Harvard over the alleged misconduct of John Comaroff ends in an agreed Dismissal
On August 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued the following statement announcing the end of the notorious, hugely publicized lawsuit filed by three students against Harvard, allegedly for its "decade-long failure to...
Dismissal “with prejudice” of case against Harvard vindicates Professor John Comaroff
The years-long campaign to smear and destroy the career and reputation of distinguished Harvard Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies John L. Comaroff collapsed on Wednesday with the dismissal “with prejudice” of the civil suit brought by...
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....
WSWS Editorial on Harvard Lawsuit
Cambridge - The WSWS Editorial Board has opined on the case of Czerwienski v. Harvard. Read the story here:
Free Beacon reports on Harvard’s motions
Cambridge - The Washington Free Beacon weighs in on the latest developments in the case of Czerwienski v. Harvard. Read the story here:
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
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
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...