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Harvard objects to motion to unseal Title IX documents

Harvard objects to motion to unseal Title IX documents

Cambridge - Harvard lawyers asked a federal court judge on Tuesday not to unseal, with redactions, certain documents related to a Title IX complaint, arguing that to do so would reveal sensitive information about third parties, identify individuals and subject them to...

World Socialist Web Site coverage

World Socialist Web Site coverage

Reporter David Walsh continues his coverage of developments in Czerwienski v. Harvard University.  To read the story, click on the link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/27/kafp-j27.html

Harvard Files Motions to Dismiss and for Summary Judgment

Harvard Files Motions to Dismiss and for Summary Judgment

Cambridge, MA – Lawyers for Harvard University asked a U.S. District Court judge on May 31, 2022 to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by three graduate students last year. Harvard filed a motion for summary judgment on count 10 of the lawsuit, which claimed that the...

WSWS calls out identity politics at Harvard

WSWS calls out identity politics at Harvard

Writer David Walsh compares Harvard's current campaign against Anthropologist John Comaroff to the communist witch hunts waged by former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's during the 1950s in his article for the World Socialist web publication. "There are more than a few...

Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

Between 1976 and 2010,  Alan Macfarlane, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University,  conducted a series of interviews with anthropologists from around the world. Two of those anthropologists included John and Jean Comaroff. They discussed...

Comaroff’s lawyers denounce Harvard discipline

Comaroff’s lawyers denounce Harvard discipline

  Following Dean Claudine Gay’s announcement today of sanctions against Harvard Professor John Comaroff, his attorneys seek to inform the public of the full context of this matter. Following an exhaustive investigation lasting more than a year, involving...

Ethnicity, Inc., translated into Chinese

Ethnicity, Inc., translated into Chinese

“The study of ethnicity and indeed of neoliberalism will never be the same after the publication of this book, ” anthropologist Keith Hart commented in the American Anthropologist.

Lecture: The Secret Life of Work, Present and Future

Lecture: The Secret Life of Work, Present and Future

This lecture was a part of ANTHUSIA Summer School 3: Dissemination: Writing, Presenting and Communicating.The Politics and Poetics of Representation in a Post-Colonial World. ANTHUSIA is a multi-disciplinary research project in the Anthropology of Human Security in...