The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

 

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018, 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm, Griffin Hall 3

Renowned anthropologists and Harvard scholars Jean and John Comaroff will speak about their latest book, The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order in which they make a startling claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, politics, or science that we understand ourselves but rather by our crimes. The result is a disturbing portrait of the modern era, one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.