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GBAC Student Conference
March 9th, 2012
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GBAC Welcomes Dr. Jean Comaroff
Wednesday, March 30 5:00 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. Lecture
Wellesley College
The GBAC community is pleased to announce the visit of anthropologist Jean Comaroff this spring for the 2011 GBAC Distinguished Lecture. In her lecture entitled, "Theory from the South: How Euro-America is Evolving Towards Africa," Jean Comaroff will address the question "How can northern nation states rethink familiar themes of democracy, national borders, capital, and religion with theory developed in Africa?"
Jean Comaroff (PhD, London School of Economics 1974) is Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, and in the Clinical Scholars Program. Comaroff has conduced fieldwork in southern Africa and Great Britain and is interested in colonialism, modernity, ritual, power, and consciousness. Her specific foci of study have included the religion of the Southern Tswana peoples (past and present); colonialism and Christian evangelism and liberation struggles in southern Africa; healing and bodily practice, and the making of local worlds in the wake of global "modernity" and commodification. Her current research concerns problems of public order, state sovereignty and policing in postcolonial contexts, and the challenging relation of legitimacy to force.