From Sharad.Chari at wits.ac.za Sun Nov 2 15:12:37 2014 From: Sharad.Chari at wits.ac.za (Sharad Chari) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:12:37 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Urban Workshop In-Reply-To: <5BC1E8C2-E0A1-4D0D-9ED9-05B72310AD2E@umich.edu> References: <3999D06677B40A4F97494D8E6867833D0A3C9578@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA>, <5BC1E8C2-E0A1-4D0D-9ED9-05B72310AD2E@umich.edu> Message-ID: <0A7507A7310AB24FBD25341240F2A96934D86B8D@Ekho.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Thanks Claudia - The write-up looks great. I'd like to write a paper that reconsiders recent received wisdom in urban studies with respect to Graham and Marvin's 'splintering urbanism' by drawing on a black radical tradition that has seen the possibility of a city for all as a promise and demand rather than anything empirically existent, particularly as seen from 20thc SA cities. In other words, the category 'splintering' might rather be conceived of in terms of the actual concrete abstractions of 'segregation'/'desegregation.' I'm afraid I'm going to have to go after the race blindness of my own tribe of radical geographers in the process (following my former student Andrea Gibbons' absolutely brilliant work on Los Angeles.) Gabrielle/Paul, I wrote this on the doodle page, but it would be vital for you both to come, with Prof Luka. We can babysit him while you profess, or you can profess in turn. The last week of June is the Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice (again - anyone interested, please contact me or Danai on this list, it's for advanced postgrads and for faculty/postdocs within 5 yrs of their PhDs), and it's followed into the first two weeks of July by JWTC. And the fourth week of July is a CISA conference that Isabel Hofmeyr and I are organising called 'Indian Ocean Energies.' So that period is going to be hectic. Keith's suggestions of doing it early in the year are probably the best! Cheers, Sharad SHARAD CHARI Associate Professor University of the Witwatersrand Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and Department of Anthropology 36 Jorissen Street | Private Bag 3 | Wits 2050 | Johannesburg | RSA +27.11.717.4128 | sharad.chari at wits.ac.za | www.cisa-wits.org.za ________________________________ From: Gabrielle Hecht [hechtg at umich.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 1:08 AM To: Claudia Gastrow Cc: sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Urban Workshop Thanks, Claudia. Early May might be (barely) doable for me, depending on the exact timing. Early July (if we were done no later than 6/11) would be distinctly better. And the last week of June would be best of all. I wonder if you organizing folks could post a description of the workshop? I imagine it's evolved since the original proposal, and I suspect that would help a lot of people figure out whether to go. Best, Gabrielle Gabrielle Hecht Professor of History, University of Michigan Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society | @MichiganSTS @GabrielleHecht On Oct 27, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Claudia Gastrow > wrote: Hi all We are beginning to organise the planned workshop on urbanism for next year and would like to settle on some dates. From some initial inquiries, it seems like early May might be the best time period for the workshop to take place, but we'd like to open up to the list to discuss this. Early July has also been raised as a possible time, although that might be difficult for people on the South African side as there are already quite a few workshops and conferences taking place here over the June/July period. If people could post back to the list about whether May, July or some other month would be better for them, we can begin to nail down some dates. Thanks Claudia This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. 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The full program can be found here: http://ii.umich.edu/asc/initiatives/africanheritageinitiativeahi/africanstudiesinthedigitalage_ci Highlights for the next two days: ** 'Whither the Archive?,' a panel featuring historian Keith Breckenridge and librarian Michele Pickover, starting at 1:30 today, in the Erlicher Room, North Quad. ** '?The Political Virtues of the Imperial Archive: Burke, Milner and the Scandal of Empire?, a lecture with historian Keith Breckenridge, starting at 4:00 today in 4701 Haven Hall. ** 'Hathi Trust at Michigan: A Special Briefing for Faculty, Staff and Students', a half-day seminar featuring Paul Courant, Mike Furlough, and Melissa Levine, all of whom have been involved in building, defining, and defending the HathiTrust project. Starts at 1:00 on Wednesday (tomorrow) in the Rackham Amphitheater. And lots more besides in the coming week-and-a-half. Yours, DRP --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 From drpeters at umich.edu Thu Nov 13 05:35:36 2014 From: drpeters at umich.edu (Derek Peterson) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:35:36 -0500 Subject: [Sugarman] Coming events: African Studies in the Digital Age Message-ID: <2D368506-5606-479C-8128-658FF05810A6@umich.edu> Dear colleagues: After a very exciting three days, 'African Studies in the Digital Age' continues on Thursday and Friday this week. The full programme is here: http://ii.umich.edu/asc/initiatives/africanheritageinitiativeahi/africanstudiesinthedigitalage_ci Coming up: ** On Thursday at 10 am: a workshop with Sharon Leon, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, on 'Public History'. The Rosenzweig Center is (among other things) the place where Zotero, the research program that some of us use, was born. ** On Thursday at 2 pm: Dean Rehberger and Peter Alegi, of Michigan State University, will talk about MATRIX, the center for digital humanities research at MSU. ** On Thursday at 3 pm: I will talk about the history of archival practice in Uganda, and about the contemporary labors of archival preservation in which I have been involved (with colleagues from Mountains of the Moon University). ** On Friday at 10 am: a panel on 'Teaching and Research', with Angel Nieves, from the Digital Humanities Initiative at Hamilton College; and Bruce Janz, from the Center for Humanities and Digital Research at the University of Central Florida. ** On Friday at 2 pm: a panel on journalism in the digital medium, featuring Dinesh Balliah, of the Wits School of Journalism; and Peter Limb, Africana librarian at Michigan State University. All events take place in the Erlicher Room, in the North Quad. All good wishes, Derek --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 From drpeters at umich.edu Mon Nov 17 05:32:13 2014 From: drpeters at umich.edu (Derek Peterson) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:32:13 -0500 Subject: [Sugarman] Spam:African Studies in the Digital Age: the Final Act Message-ID: <2C351495-52A9-42F3-B5D0-27E090284547@umich.edu> Dear colleagues: There are more exciting things coming with 'African Studies in the Digital Age'. The full program is here: http://ii.umich.edu/asc/initiatives/africanheritageinitiativeahi/africanstudiesinthedigitalage_ci Coming up: ** On Monday at 10 am, Tara McPherson, from the University of South California, will talk about 'Digital Architecture'. McPherson is among the more interesting scholars working in the field: she's the founding editor of Vectors, a multi-media scholarly journal, and is one of the organizers of Race in Digital Space, a multi-year project supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication. This session will take place in the Erlicher Room, North Quad. ** On Monday at 2 pm there will be a three-part panel featuring work in the digital humanities at the UM. Martha Jones (History) will discuss the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project; Kelly Askew (DAAS and Anthro), David Wallace (SI) and Paul Conway (SI) will discuss the exciting Leo Sarkisian music archive; and Akosua Ampofo and Judith Opuku-Boateng (University of Ghana) will discuss archive work at the Institute of African Studies. **NOTE that this session will take place in the Henderson Room, in the Michigan League. ** ** On Tuesday at 4:00 there will be a very exciting panel about 'Publishing in and about Africa', featuring some of the most prominent figures in the field of African Studies book publishing. The panel features Gill Berchowitz, Director of the Ohio University Press (which has the largest Africa list of any American publisher); James Tumusiime, owner of Fountain Publishers (Eastern Africa's biggest academic publisher); and Alexander Bangirana, Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA. We will hear also from Charles Watkinson, who is Director of the University of Michigan Press. This session will take place at the Erlicher Room, North Quad. Do please join us for any of the above. DRP --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 From drpeters at umich.edu Wed Nov 19 22:24:51 2014 From: drpeters at umich.edu (Derek Peterson) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:24:51 -0500 Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning In-Reply-To: <3999D06677B40A4F97494D8E6867833D0A3C967A@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> References: <3999D06677B40A4F97494D8E6867833D0A3C967A@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Message-ID: Dear everyone: Many thanks to the South Africans who braved the winter's snow to come to Ann Arbor for the 'Digital Humanities' meeting. It was great fun having you all here, and I certainly learned a great deal from the occasion. I attach here notes from our planning meeting. 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From: Derek Peterson Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:24:51 +0200 To: "sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za" Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning Dear everyone: Many thanks to the South Africans who braved the winter's snow to come to Ann Arbor for the 'Digital Humanities' meeting. It was great fun having you all here, and I certainly learned a great deal from the occasion. I attach here notes from our planning meeting. As you will see, we have now got dates in the book for the next four workshops (!). Could everyone please make note of the dates and ink them in your diaries? With all good wishes, Derek --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 _______________________________________________ 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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From: Derek Peterson > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:24:51 +0200 To: "sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za" > Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning Dear everyone: Many thanks to the South Africans who braved the winter's snow to come to Ann Arbor for the 'Digital Humanities' meeting. It was great fun having you all here, and I certainly learned a great deal from the occasion. I attach here notes from our planning meeting. As you will see, we have now got dates in the book for the next four workshops (!). Could everyone please make note of the dates and ink them in your diaries? With all good wishes, Derek --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 _______________________________________________ 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: From Cynthia.Kros at wits.ac.za Thu Nov 20 14:23:32 2014 From: Cynthia.Kros at wits.ac.za (Cynthia Kros) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:23:32 +0000 Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks very much! It was a very stimulating workshop and I didn't mind the snow in the least. Best wishes Cynthia From: Pamila Gupta [mailto:Pamila.Gupta at wits.ac.za] Sent: 20 November 2014 09:13 AM To: Isabel Hofmeyr; Derek Peterson; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning Dear Derek, I also want to second what Isabel has written-thank you for your generosity in hosting us. I learned so much from the workshop on a topic that is extremely important and relevant. and I look forward to our next round of workshops/collaborations. Sincerely, Pamila From: Isabel Hofmeyr [mailto:isabel.hofmeyr at wits.ac.za] Sent: 20 November 2014 08:53 AM To: Derek Peterson; sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za Subject: Re: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning Dear Derek Many thanks to you and everyone at Michigan for hosting us so generously. I gained an enormous amount from the workshop and and feel inspired to implement some of the ideas we saw. From: Derek Peterson > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:24:51 +0200 To: "sugarman at lists.wits.ac.za" > Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning Dear everyone: Many thanks to the South Africans who braved the winter's snow to come to Ann Arbor for the 'Digital Humanities' meeting. It was great fun having you all here, and I certainly learned a great deal from the occasion. I attach here notes from our planning meeting. As you will see, we have now got dates in the book for the next four workshops (!). Could everyone please make note of the dates and ink them in your diaries? With all good wishes, Derek --- Dr. Derek R. Peterson Professor of History & African Studies University of Michigan tel: (+1) 734 615 3608 _______________________________________________ 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: From jti at umich.edu Thu Nov 20 19:51:26 2014 From: jti at umich.edu (Judith Irvine) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:51:26 -0500 Subject: [Sugarman] Wits/UM forward planning In-Reply-To: References: <3999D06677B40A4F97494D8E6867833D0A3C967A@Elpis.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Message-ID: Hi Derek, While of course I want to second your thanks to our South African visitors for braving an unusually cold Michigan November -- I also have a question about the forward plans.What happened to literacy (and its politics), which I thought was being included in one of the workshops -- in fac t, in my notes, in the "Print cultures" one? Did I misunderstand? All best, Judy 2014-11-19 15:24 GMT-05:00 Derek Peterson : > Dear everyone: > > Many thanks to the South Africans who braved the winter's snow to come to > Ann Arbor for the 'Digital Humanities' meeting. It was great fun having you > all here, and I certainly learned a great deal from the occasion. > > I attach here notes from our planning meeting. As you will see, we have > now got dates in the book for the next four workshops (!). Could everyone > please make note of the dates and ink them in your diaries? > > With all good wishes, > > > Derek > > > > > style="width:100%;"> > > > >
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