[Sugarman] Urban Workshop

[Sharad Chari]

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
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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

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On Oct 27, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Claudia Gastrow <Claudia.Gastrow at wits.ac.za<mailto:Claudia.Gastrow at wits.ac.za>> 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

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