From Vishwas.Satgar at wits.ac.za Wed May 15 16:47:14 2013 From: Vishwas.Satgar at wits.ac.za (Vishwas Satgar) Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 14:47:14 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Subscribe Message-ID: <50ED34398CFCDB44A2A221C331E1A94927D635DF@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130515/3b9927ad/attachment.html From achillembembe at hotmail.com Wed May 22 11:09:57 2013 From: achillembembe at hotmail.com (achille mbembe) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:57 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] FW: Getting started on the Sugarman collaboration In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Dear Keith, I hope you are having a great time in the United Kingdom. Not much to report from here. I am sure you have been reading the news on Internet. Great things are starting to move. I am particularly interested in the following themes: [1] Interrogating neoliberalism as idea and explanation [2] The global South as an idea and a source of theory [3] Province and diaspora in African intellectual history [4] The perils and possibilities of digital humanities in Africa There is a great number of colleagues at Wits who are interested in these issues and it would be quite easy to mobilize them. For each of these, it might be very possible to test the waters by organizing 4 'exploratory one-day workshops'. during which we would unpack the themes and agree on a number of axes and modalities of inquiry. These 'exploratory workshops' would cost nothing. They would help us to form small teams here at Wits, while waiting to hear from our Michigan colleagues. Achille, Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:33:43 +0100 Subject: Getting started on the Sugarman collaboration From: keith at breckenridge.org.za To: kaskew at umich.edu; drpeters at umich.edu; hechtg at umich.edu; Sarah.Nuttall at wits.ac.za; cath at burns.org.za; achillembembe at hotmail.com CC: najibha.deshmukh at wits.ac.za Dear friends, [This message has not gone to the list -- only to Kelly, Derek, Gabrielle, Sarah, Achille and Catherine. It's a draft of an email to get us started, please let me know if you can see anything that needs to be added or changed.] We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects The Global South as an idea and a source of theoryIn addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in AfricaSocial History after Edward ThompsonThe politics of heritage Province and diaspora in African intellectual history The cultural politics of science and technologyThe cultural politics of performance and mediaMany thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/82c0d58a/attachment-0001.html From keith at breckenridge.org.za Wed May 22 11:11:22 2013 From: keith at breckenridge.org.za (Keith Breckenridge) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:22 +0100 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Message-ID: Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa - Social History after Edward Thompson - The politics of heritage - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history - The cultural politics of science and technology - The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/3b60bd7a/attachment.html From Sharad.Chari at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 11:26:06 2013 From: Sharad.Chari at wits.ac.za (Sharad Chari) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:26:06 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0A7507A7310AB24FBD25341240F2A9690CBC5C03@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Dear Keith, and All, Many thanks for this. Presuming we can sign up for more than one theme, please add me to: 1. Public space 2. Global South 3. Neoliberalism With thanks, Sharad Sharad Chari Associate Professor University of the Witwatersrand Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and Department of Anthropology +27.11.717.4128 | sharad.chari at wits.ac.za | www.cisa-wits.org.za From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'd like to sign up for the following: * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * The cultural politics of performance and media Dr Nicky Falkof Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator Department of Media Studies University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa Room 3170, Senate House Private Bag X3, Wits, 2050 Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4165 Email: nicky.falkof at wits.ac.za http://www.wits.ac.za/staff/nicky.falkof -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/481d14cd/attachment.html From Christopher.Lee at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 11:54:43 2013 From: Christopher.Lee at wits.ac.za (Christopher Lee) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:54:43 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Keith and everyone, I am interested in many of these topics, a few in rough order: 1) Global South 2) Social history 3) Expert knowledges 4) Neoliberalism Best, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher J. Lee, Ph.D. Lecturer in International Relations Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) University of Witwatersrand 36 Jorissen Street Private Bag 3 Wits 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa website: http://cisa-wits.org.za/dr-christopher-j-lee/ ________________________________________ From: Keith Breckenridge [keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za From Shireen.Hassim at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 12:49:10 2013 From: Shireen.Hassim at wits.ac.za (Shireen Hassim) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:49:10 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6A0B218273AAC040870D8347DD969811168FDEA9@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Hi all I am keen on the following areas: Public space Neoliberalism Biopolitics and medical humanities Global south Best Shireen Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Keith Breckenridge Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:22 To: Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started _______________________________________________ Sugarman mailing list Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman From silveray at umich.edu Wed May 22 14:10:09 2013 From: silveray at umich.edu (Raymond Silverman) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:10:09 -0400 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Keith, A terrific set of themes. Here are a few in which I am most interested. - The politics of heritage - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities Best regards, ray On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < keith at breckenridge.org.za> wrote: > Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will > carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is > clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet > Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It > might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these > themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we > do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer > (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann > Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be > worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we > have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people > to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd > be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) > explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will > be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will > use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and > politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the > following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a > dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those > people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits > or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure > that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know > and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition > in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, > exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights > in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > > - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, > museums and performance > - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in > Africa > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa > - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities > - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the > desegregating city > - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements > and subjects > - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > > In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might > reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. > > - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > - Social History after Edward Thompson > - The politics of heritage > - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history > - The cultural politics of science and technology > - The cultural politics of performance and media > > Many thanks, Keith > > -- > Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and > Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, > Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | > Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/9e5afbf4/attachment-0001.html From Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 14:12:47 2013 From: Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za (Dilip Menon) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:47 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Keith, Primarily Public space Global South Neoliberalism and Social History after Thompson. The range is breath-taking and staggering. Dilip From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/59d6aa24/attachment.html From Isabel.Hofmeyr at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 14:13:31 2013 From: Isabel.Hofmeyr at wits.ac.za (Isabel Hofmeyr) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:13:31 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5CEEA67E8F4F2D42A51C9075BA9D285D1388300C@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> I'm in for Global South and Intellectual property/digital humanities Isabel Hofmeyr Professor of African Literature Research Associate: Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (www.cisa-wits.org.za) University of the Witwatersrand P/Bag 3 POWits 2050 South Africa Phone: +27-11-717-4142 Fax: +27-11-717-4149 From: Dilip Menon [mailto:Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 02:13 PM To: Keith Breckenridge; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear Keith, Primarily Public space Global South Neoliberalism and Social History after Thompson. The range is breath-taking and staggering. Dilip From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/f59588ed/attachment-0001.html From Cynthia.Kros at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 14:53:19 2013 From: Cynthia.Kros at wits.ac.za (Cynthia Kros) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:53:19 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: <5CEEA67E8F4F2D42A51C9075BA9D285D1388300C@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> References: <5CEEA67E8F4F2D42A51C9075BA9D285D1388300C@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Message-ID: Hi I think I signed up for the politics of heritage + would love to pursue. Derek and the Heritage Initiative at Michigan have proposed a January meeting at Michigan for those of us who have been involved in the heritage conferences over the last several years - will have to think how this intersects. Best wishes Cynthia From: Isabel Hofmeyr [mailto:Isabel.Hofmeyr at wits.ac.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 02:14 PM To: Dilip Menon; Keith Breckenridge; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Getting started I'm in for Global South and Intellectual property/digital humanities Isabel Hofmeyr Professor of African Literature Research Associate: Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (www.cisa-wits.org.za) University of the Witwatersrand P/Bag 3 POWits 2050 South Africa Phone: +27-11-717-4142 Fax: +27-11-717-4149 From: Dilip Menon [mailto:Dilip.Menon at wits.ac.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 02:13 PM To: Keith Breckenridge; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear Keith, Primarily Public space Global South Neoliberalism and Social History after Thompson. The range is breath-taking and staggering. Dilip From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/4a592c94/attachment.html From Kelly.Gillespie at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 17:42:21 2013 From: Kelly.Gillespie at wits.ac.za (Kelly Gillespie) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:42:21 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Keith Thanks for the email. I'd be interested in: * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation Best, Kelly From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/701724fa/attachment-0001.html From karl at yeoville.org.za Wed May 22 17:56:55 2013 From: karl at yeoville.org.za (Karl von Holdt) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:56:55 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00cb01ce5704$fbc46180$f34d2480$@yeoville.org.za> Thanks Keith. I'm interested in three themes, in order of priority: 1. The global South 2. Public space, informality and infrastructure 3. Neoliberalism Karl --------------------------- Ass Prof Karl von Holdt Director Society Work and Development Institute (SWOP) University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg karl at yeoville.org.za Excerpts from our new book: http://www.scribd.com/doc/89978566/Conversations-with-Bourdieu-The-Johannesb urg-Moment From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. Message-ID: Hi Keith and everyone, I like the following: * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating (but also RE-segregating) city * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory The first topic is quite big and might merit a 2 week "course" that combined perhaps lectures and site visits?? For that one, it might be useful to bring studies of cities in SA and the literature on cities in the global south into conversation with the more abstract theoretical literature in urban studies that often treats cities in the north as the "norm" and everything else as somehow deviant. It seems to me too that shrinking cities like Detroit with all of its challenges providing health care, education, public transportation, affordable housing might have something to learn from cities in the south and their residents. Neoliberalism and the Global South as ideas and explanations could be usefully combined?.Neoliberalism seems to me a tired topic but I'd be very interested in how we might reconceptualize it?.. ap Anne Pitcher Professor of African Studies and Political Science Associate Chair, African Studies University of Michigan 4700 Haven Hall 505 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 From: Kelly Gillespie Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:42 AM To: Keith Breckenridge , "sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za" Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Getting started Hi Keith Thanks for the email. I?d be interested in: * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation Best, Kelly From: Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: 22 May 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/f9d08313/attachment-0001.html From jawenzel at umich.edu Wed May 22 19:20:59 2013 From: jawenzel at umich.edu (Jennifer Wenzel) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:20:59 -0400 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all-- My interests would be (basically in descending order, but would be happy with any of these)-- - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects - The politics of heritage - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance Cheers, and really enthused about this! Jennifer - - On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < keith at breckenridge.org.za> wrote: Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will > carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is > clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet > Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It > might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these > themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we > do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer > (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann > Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be > worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we > have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people > to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd > be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) > explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will > be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will > use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and > politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the > following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a > dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those > people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits > or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure > that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know > and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition > in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, > exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights > in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > > - Many thanks, Keith > > > -- > Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and > Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, > Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | > Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/c47e216f/attachment.html From Hylton.White at wits.ac.za Wed May 22 19:33:07 2013 From: Hylton.White at wits.ac.za (Hylton White) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:33:07 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1F3A7E6F-811D-4F01-AB1A-6124E7320DC6@wits.ac.za> Hi Keith, Many thanks. For this project, I'd particularly be interested in: * The politics of heritage * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Best, Hylton On 22 May 2013, at 10:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge > wrote: Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za _______________________________________________ Sugarman mailing list Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/63c29b48/attachment.html From murraymj at umich.edu Wed May 22 22:20:24 2013 From: murraymj at umich.edu (Martin Murray) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:20:24 -0400 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: <1F3A7E6F-811D-4F01-AB1A-6124E7320DC6@wits.ac.za> References: <1F3A7E6F-811D-4F01-AB1A-6124E7320DC6@wits.ac.za> Message-ID: Hi Keith and everyone, These are all very interesting topics. My list is: 1. Public Spaces, Informality, and Infrastructures in the Desegregating City 2. The Global South as Ideas and Source of Theory 3. Interrogating Neoliberalism as Idea and Explanation Looking back, it may be that some of the topics cold easily become narrowly focused. Perhaps it might be possible to think of combining -- say -- Public Space etc. with (say) Global South -- or any other combination of topics from the original list. Martin Murray On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Hylton White wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Many thanks. For this project, I'd particularly be interested in: > > > - The politics of heritage > > > - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums > and performance > > > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > > > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > > > > Best, Hylton > > > > On 22 May 2013, at 10:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < > keith at breckenridge.org.za> > wrote: > > Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will > carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is > clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet > Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It > might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these > themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we > do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer > (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann > Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be > worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we > have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people > to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd > be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) > explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will > be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will > use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and > politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the > following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a > dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those > people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits > or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure > that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know > and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special > edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, > exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights > in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > > - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, > museums and performance > - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in > Africa > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical > humanities > - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa > - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities > - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the > desegregating city > - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements > and subjects > - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > > In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might > reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. > > - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > - Social History after Edward Thompson > - The politics of heritage > - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history > - The cultural politics of science and technology > - The cultural politics of performance and media > > Many thanks, Keith > > -- > Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and > Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, > Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | > Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > _______________________________________________ > Sugarman mailing list > Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za > http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman > > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130522/c125e578/attachment-0001.html From nafisa.sheik at gmail.com Thu May 23 09:10:29 2013 From: nafisa.sheik at gmail.com (nafisa sheik) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:10:29 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Keith and all, My picks: The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa Social History after E.P Thompson Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Many thanks, Nafisa On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < keith at breckenridge.org.za> wrote: > Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will > carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is > clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet > Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It > might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these > themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we > do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer > (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann > Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be > worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we > have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people > to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd > be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) > explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will > be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will > use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and > politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the > following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a > dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those > people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits > or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure > that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know > and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition > in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, > exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights > in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > > - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, > museums and performance > - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in > Africa > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa > - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities > - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the > desegregating city > - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements > and subjects > - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > > In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might > reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. > > - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > - Social History after Edward Thompson > - The politics of heritage > - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history > - The cultural politics of science and technology > - The cultural politics of performance and media > > Many thanks, Keith > > -- > Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and > Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, > Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | > Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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I am most centrally interested in the following themes: Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation The Global South as an idea and a source of theory The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Best Gabrielle Gabrielle Hecht Professeure invit?e, Sciences Po / ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales Professor of History, University of Michigan Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130523/54e355a5/attachment-0001.html From kaskew at umich.edu Thu May 23 11:57:25 2013 From: kaskew at umich.edu (Kelly Askew) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:57:25 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: <5D46C7BB-3602-4494-A503-9CEAA0E827B6@umich.edu> References: <5D46C7BB-3602-4494-A503-9CEAA0E827B6@umich.edu> Message-ID: Dear Keith and all, Thanks for the nudge to get us started, Keith. The committees that I'd be interested to join are (not ranked, simply listed): 1. Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics 2. Interrogating neoliberalism as idea and explanation 3. Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects 4. The perils and possibilities of digital humanities in Africa [can perhaps absorb: Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities] 5. The Global South as an idea and a source of theory 6. The cultural politics of performance and media Given the proposal that the first workshop is to be held at Wits, I defer to you and your colleagues to propose what that first workshop ought to be on. It was nice to meet you over the weekend. Hope you enjoy the rest of your time in the UK. all best, Kelly On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gabrielle Hecht wrote: > Thanks for launching us, Keith! > > I am most centrally interested in the following themes: > > - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of > course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) > - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating > city > - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa > > But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: > > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > > Best > Gabrielle > > *Gabrielle Hecht* * > * > *Professeure invit?e, Sciences Po / ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences > Sociales * > *Professor of History, University of Michigan* > *Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade > **(MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012)* > * > * > > > > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. ** > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugarman mailing list > Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za > http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130523/4fe9136b/attachment.html From sparks.stephen at gmail.com Thu May 23 12:31:39 2013 From: sparks.stephen at gmail.com (Stephen Sparks) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:31:39 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: <5D46C7BB-3602-4494-A503-9CEAA0E827B6@umich.edu> Message-ID: Hello everyone, My interests would probably be best represented by: Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa Social History after Edward Thompson Thanks, Stephen On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Kelly Askew wrote: > Dear Keith and all, > > Thanks for the nudge to get us started, Keith. The committees that I'd be > interested to join are (not ranked, simply listed): > > 1. Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > 2. Interrogating neoliberalism as idea and explanation > 3. Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and > subjects > 4. The perils and possibilities of digital humanities in Africa [can > perhaps absorb: Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital > humanities] > 5. The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > 6. The cultural politics of performance and media > > Given the proposal that the first workshop is to be held at Wits, I defer > to you and your colleagues to propose what that first workshop ought to be > on. > > It was nice to meet you over the weekend. Hope you enjoy the rest of your > time in the UK. > > all best, > Kelly > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gabrielle Hecht wrote: > >> Thanks for launching us, Keith! >> >> I am most centrally interested in the following themes: >> >> - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of >> course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) >> - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating >> city >> - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in >> Africa >> >> But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: >> >> - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation >> - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory >> - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa >> - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities >> >> Best >> Gabrielle >> >> *Gabrielle Hecht* * >> * >> *Professeure invit?e, Sciences Po / ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences >> Sociales * >> *Professor of History, University of Michigan* >> *Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade >> **(MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012)* >> * >> * >> >> >> >> >> This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. >> ** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugarman mailing list >> Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za >> http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman >> >> > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130523/26d60582/attachment-0001.html From ekotto at umich.edu Thu May 23 18:05:12 2013 From: ekotto at umich.edu (Frieda Ekotto) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:05:12 +0100 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: <5D46C7BB-3602-4494-A503-9CEAA0E827B6@umich.edu> Message-ID: Dear All, I would be interested in the following committees: -Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African public -The Global South as an idea and a source of theory - The cultural politics of performance and media Thank you, Frieda On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Kelly Askew wrote: > Dear Keith and all, > > Thanks for the nudge to get us started, Keith. The committees that I'd be > interested to join are (not ranked, simply listed): > > 1. Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > 2. Interrogating neoliberalism as idea and explanation > 3. Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and > subjects > 4. The perils and possibilities of digital humanities in Africa [can > perhaps absorb: Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital > humanities] > 5. The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > 6. The cultural politics of performance and media > > Given the proposal that the first workshop is to be held at Wits, I defer > to you and your colleagues to propose what that first workshop ought to be > on. > > It was nice to meet you over the weekend. Hope you enjoy the rest of your > time in the UK. > > all best, > Kelly > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gabrielle Hecht wrote: > >> Thanks for launching us, Keith! >> >> I am most centrally interested in the following themes: >> >> - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of >> course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) >> - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating >> city >> - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in >> Africa >> >> But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: >> >> - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation >> - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory >> - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa >> - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities >> >> Best >> Gabrielle >> >> *Gabrielle Hecht* * >> * >> *Professeure invit?e, Sciences Po / ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences >> Sociales * >> *Professor of History, University of Michigan* >> *Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade >> **(MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012)* >> * >> * >> >> >> >> >> This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. >> ** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugarman mailing list >> Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za >> http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman >> >> > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130523/c921023e/attachment.html From rdhardin at umich.edu Thu May 23 18:12:31 2013 From: rdhardin at umich.edu (Rebecca Hardin) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:31 -0400 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: and mine (Rebecca Hardin, UM)--hard to rank these, all seem tantalizing, as do many of the other topics! vernacular literatures and transnational subject making politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities but also global south (esp. francophone/anglophone africas, south asiaa and/in africas, etc.) On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:10 AM, nafisa sheik wrote: > Dear Keith and all, > > My picks: > > > The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa > Social History after E.P Thompson > > Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > > > > Many thanks, > Nafisa > > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < > keith at breckenridge.org.za> wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> >> We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will >> carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is >> clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet >> Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It >> might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these >> themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we >> do that. >> >> To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late >> Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in >> Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have >> to be worked out by the workshop committees). >> >> Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we >> have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people >> to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd >> be interested to participate. >> >> Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) >> explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will >> be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will >> use those replies to assemble the committees. >> >> WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and >> politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the >> following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): >> >> 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a >> dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those >> people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits >> or Michigan. >> >> 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure >> that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know >> and think about each of the problems. >> >> 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special >> edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. >> >> 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, >> exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights >> in to each problem area. >> >> The proposed themes include: >> >> - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, >> museums and performance >> - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of >> African publics >> - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation >> - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in >> Africa >> - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical >> humanities >> - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa >> - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities >> - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the >> desegregating city >> - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements >> and subjects >> - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory >> >> In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might >> reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. >> >> - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa >> - Social History after Edward Thompson >> - The politics of heritage >> - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history >> - The cultural politics of science and technology >> - The cultural politics of performance and media >> >> Many thanks, Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and >> Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, >> Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | >> Web: wiser.wits.ac.za >> >> This communication is intended for the addressee only. 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URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130523/a83c8625/attachment.html From Eric.Worby at wits.ac.za Fri May 24 09:39:25 2013 From: Eric.Worby at wits.ac.za (Eric Worby) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:39:25 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It's hard to say 'no' to anything on this tempting menu, but for starters, I'll order the following: * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Cultural studies/cultural politics of science and technology in Africa * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory all best, Eric ________________________________ From: Keith Breckenridge [keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130524/42a5252f/attachment.html From Clive.Glaser at wits.ac.za Fri May 24 10:03:43 2013 From: Clive.Glaser at wits.ac.za (Clive Glaser) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:03:43 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Keith, the following are of interest to me (though I would consider myself nothing more than a relatively well-informed non-expert in these fields) : Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation; Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city; Social History after Edward Thompson All the best Clive ________________________________ From: Keith Breckenridge [keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130524/558e8c6c/attachment-0001.html From pne at umich.edu Fri May 24 21:06:57 2013 From: pne at umich.edu (Paul N. Edwards) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:06:57 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67A3AC01-D45F-4E6B-9990-34EF462E83F6@umich.edu> Resending a new version of this because it does not seem to have appeared in the thread that everyone sees (it's not in the email archive, either). Keith, and all my old and new colleagues and friends in SA - I'm interested in: Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa The cultural politics of science and technology (from the secondary list) More specifically, I'm interested in: -- science and politics of climate change in Africa, including indigenous knowledge issues (intersects with literacy/expert knowledge issues) -- history and current state of information and knowledge infrastructures in Africa. This intersects with both technology and digital humanities themes. I agree with Best, Paul On May 22, 2013, at 11:11 , Keith Breckenridge wrote: > Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance > Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics > Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa > Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa > Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities > Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city > Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects > The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. > The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > Social History after Edward Thompson > The politics of heritage > Province and diaspora in African intellectual history > The cultural politics of science and technology > The cultural politics of performance and media > Many thanks, Keith > > -- > Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. > _______________________________________________ > Sugarman mailing list > Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za > http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130524/36d41f1e/attachment-0001.html From Pamila.Gupta at wits.ac.za Sun May 26 16:41:09 2013 From: Pamila.Gupta at wits.ac.za (Pamila Gupta) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:41:09 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Dear Keith, thanks for this, sorry I am so late to respond but was traveling. the topics that interest me: Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance The Global South as an idea and a source of theory The politics of heritage Sincerely, Pamila ________________________________________ From: Clive Glaser [Clive.Glaser at wits.ac.za] Sent: 24 May 2013 10:03 AM To: Keith Breckenridge; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Getting started Keith, the following are of interest to me (though I would consider myself nothing more than a relatively well-informed non-expert in these fields) : Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation; Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city; Social History after Edward Thompson All the best Clive ________________________________ From: Keith Breckenridge [keith at breckenridge.org.za] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:11 AM To: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started Dear friends, We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that. To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd be interested to participate. Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble the committees. WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan. 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems. 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area. The proposed themes include: * Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance * Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics * Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation * The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa * Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities * Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa * Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities * Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city * Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects * The Global South as an idea and a source of theory In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. * The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa * Social History after Edward Thompson * The politics of heritage * Province and diaspora in African intellectual history * The cultural politics of science and technology * The cultural politics of performance and media Many thanks, Keith -- Keith Breckenridge W I S E R - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za From pne at umich.edu Mon May 27 10:30:23 2013 From: pne at umich.edu (Paul N. Edwards) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:30:23 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7D6D4DCD-49D4-4D77-AE77-7882DF8FCEC0@umich.edu> Keith, and all my old and new colleagues and friends in SA - (Keith, this version should be in plain text with no HTML) I'm interested in: ? Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa ? Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities ? The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa ? The cultural politics of science and technology (from the secondary list) More specifically, I'm interested in: -- science and politics of climate change in Africa, including indigenous knowledge issues (intersects with literacy/expert knowledge issues) -- history and current state of information and knowledge infrastructures in Africa. This intersects with both technology and digital humanities themes. Best, Paul Edwards ___________________________ Paul N. Edwards Professeur invit?, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13) Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing) Mailing address (2012-13): 82 rue Mouffetard 75005 Paris, France (206) 337-1523 (fax) pne.people.si.umich.edu From hechtg at umich.edu Mon May 27 10:43:56 2013 From: hechtg at umich.edu (Gabrielle Hecht) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:43:56 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: <7D6D4DCD-49D4-4D77-AE77-7882DF8FCEC0@umich.edu> References: <7D6D4DCD-49D4-4D77-AE77-7882DF8FCEC0@umich.edu> Message-ID: It appears that we're having some trouble with the list -- some people seem to have seen my post, others not. So here it is again, with apologies to those who did see it the first time. --- Thanks for launching us, Keith! I am most centrally interested in the following themes: Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation The Global South as an idea and a source of theory The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Best Gabrielle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/attachments/20130527/f49f9326/attachment.html From hechtg at umich.edu Mon May 27 10:48:43 2013 From: hechtg at umich.edu (Gabrielle Hecht) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:48:43 +0200 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: <7D6D4DCD-49D4-4D77-AE77-7882DF8FCEC0@umich.edu> References: <7D6D4DCD-49D4-4D77-AE77-7882DF8FCEC0@umich.edu> Message-ID: <48F252D1-C60D-4240-AFF9-036E11B64D40@umich.edu> It appears that we're having some trouble with the list -- some people seem to have seen my post, others not. So here it is again, with apologies to those who did see it the first time. --- Thanks for launching us, Keith! I am most centrally interested in the following themes: ? Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of course also include cultural politics of sci & tech) ? Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city ? The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following: ? Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation ? The Global South as an idea and a source of theory ? The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa ? Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities Best Gabrielle From ashforth at umich.edu Mon May 27 15:59:03 2013 From: ashforth at umich.edu (Adam Ashforth) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:03 -0400 Subject: [Sugarman] Getting started In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would go for the imperial archive, expert knowleges, and medical humanities. cheers, adam. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge < keith at breckenridge.org.za> wrote: > Dear friends, > > We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will > carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is > clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust theme to meet > Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It > might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these > themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we > do that. > > To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer > (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann > Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates will have to be > worked out by the workshop committees). > > Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we > have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people > to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message) they'd > be interested to participate. > > Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) > explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will > be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will > use those replies to assemble the committees. > > WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and > politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the > following things (and I'm sure that there will be more): > > 1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a > dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those > people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits > or Michigan. > > 2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure > that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know > and think about each of the problems. > > 3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition > in one of the journals well matched to the problems. > > 4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, > exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights > in to each problem area. > > The proposed themes include: > > - Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, > museums and performance > - Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of > African publics > - Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation > - The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in > Africa > - Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities > - Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa > - Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities > - Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the > desegregating city > - Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements > and subjects > - The Global South as an idea and a source of theory > > In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might > reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above. > > - The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa > - Social History after Edward Thompson > - The politics of heritage > - Province and diaspora in African intellectual history > - The cultural politics of science and technology > - The cultural politics of performance and media > > Many thanks, Keith > > -- > Keith Breckenridge *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and > Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, > Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 | > Web: wiser.wits.ac.za > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. ** > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugarman mailing list > Sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za > http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sugarman > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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