Conversation with Suren Pillay, “Migrating Violence in South Africa: Marikana, Migrant, Labour”
wine and cheese reception
wine and cheese reception
6:30-8:00pm
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Brockway Room, 6402
Graduate Center, 6th floor
Suren Pillay is Associate Professor at the Center for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. He has published on issues of violence, citizenship and justice claims. With Chandra Sriram he is co-editor of the book, Truth vs Justice? The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Africa (London: James Currey, 2011) He has an Mphil, and a Phd in Anthropology from Columbia University. Suren is currently completing two book manuscripts- a study of state violence in the period of late apartheid; and a study of citizenship, violence and the politics of difference in post apartheid South Africa. His current research also focuses on experiments in cultural sovereignty in postcolonial Africa in the sphere of knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. Suren has been a visiting fellow at Jawarhalal Nehru University, India, the Makerere Institute for Social Research, Uganda, the Center for African Studies, Univ. of Cape Town, and the Center for Social Difference, Columbia University. He is a previous editor of the journal Social Dynamics, blogs for Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), and has published widely in the press.
This event s cosponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY.
