[Sugarman] Getting started

[Kelly Askew]

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 <hechtg at umich.edu> 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* <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hechtg/>*
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> *Professeure invitée, Sciences Po / École des Hautes Études en Sciences
> Sociales *
> *Professor of History, University of Michigan*
> *Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade<http://www.amazon.com/Being-Nuclear-Africans-Global-Uranium/dp/0262017261/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332867481&sr=8-1>
>  **(MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012)*
> *
> *
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