[Sugarman] African Studies in the Digital Age readings

Derek Peterson drpeters at umich.edu
Sun Oct 12 01:02:27 SAST 2014


Dear all: 

This goes to those who are in one way or another involved in 'African Studies in the Digital Age', which is to begin in the space of a month. 

We have a workshop website: it can be found at this hyperlink. Or see the most up-to-date version of the schedule in the attached Word document. The program is very full and varied, and it all promises to be a great deal of fun. 

But it will not be a bed of roses: there is some preparatory work to be done. The various presenters have suggested some shared reading for all of us to do. I have attached the relevant texts here, formatted generally as PDFs. The reading is structured as follows: 

For Monday, 10 November, read: 
1. Hofmeyr, Portable Bunyan (attached), AND Hofmeyr's newest book _Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments with Slow Reading_ (Harvard, 2013), which participants should please purchase, or (slowly) read at the library, in advance. 

For Tuesday,  11 November, read: 
2. Keith Breckenridge, 'The Politics of the Parallel Archive,' JSAS 40 (3) (2014), 499-519. 
3. Premesh Lalu, 'The virtual stampede for Africa,' Innovation 34 (June 2007). 
4. Taylor, Rockenbach and Bond, 'Archives and the past,' in Barringer and Wallace, eds., _African Studies in the Digital Age_ (Brill, 2014). 

For Friday, 14 November, read: 
5. Peter Limb, 'Towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitization,' Innovation 34 (June 2007). 
6. Excerpts from Center for Research Libraries, Focus on Global Resources 29 (Summer 2010). 
7. Peter Limb, 'The ANC's First newspaper recovered,' manuscript. 
8. Peter Limb, 'Conclusion,' in Barringer and Wallace, eds., _African Studies in the Digital Age_ (Brill, 2014). 

And our colleague Akosua Ampofo reminds me to flag up the 2007 workshop in Illinois about 'The Politics of Digital Initiatives Concerning Africa,' the report for which can be found at this hyperlink. 

We here are much looking forward to this occasion. Please do come to me with any questions that might occur to you. 

Yours, 

Derek 














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Dr. Derek R. Peterson
Professor of History & African Studies
University of Michigan
tel: (+1) 734 615 3608



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