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Theorists & Jurists: John Comaroff

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM (ET)

Buffalo, NY

Theorists & Jurists: John Comaroff

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THEORISTS AND JURISTS SERIESComaroff

John L. Comaroff

"Detective Fictions and Sovereign Pursuits: Further Adventures Policing the Postcolony"

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

4:30-6:00 PM, followed by reception

Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

University at Buffalo Law School

509 O'Brian Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260

John L. Comaroff got his PhD at the London School of Economics. He is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, does research in southern Africa, concentrating on the Tswana peoples. He is interested in colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, neoliberalism, social theory, and the history of consciousness; in politics, law, and historical anthropology.

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Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
University at Buffalo Law School
509 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM (ET)


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