Symposium on Jonny Steinberg’s “The Number”

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Speaker/Performer: 
Jonny Steinberg, Professor of African Studies, Oxford University Visiting Professor of African Studies and Politics, Yale University
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

The Number (2004) established Jonny Steinberg as one of
the most insightful commentators on South African
politics and history of his generation. An intensive
exploration of prison and prison gangs before, during,
and after Apartheid through the life of Magadien Wentzel,
a lifelong criminal and gang leader, it is simultaneously a
study of the country’s troubled evolution from the
neglected perspective of those who live in and run its
prisons, and those whose lives are shaped by them. Ian
Shapiro will moderate a panel in which Mahmood
Mamdani, James Scott, and Elisabeth Wood will discuss
the implications of The Number with Jonny Steinberg for
current debates about the advantages and disadvantages
of different methods of studying politics.

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