[Sugarman] Mellon report

[Keith Breckenridge]

Thanks Derek, and by way of reminder to the others on this list, I've got
two pieces we can report to Mellon.

"African progressivism, land, and law: Rereading Native Life in South
Africa"*Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present*,
edited by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bheki Peterson,  Wits
University Press, 2016, 175 - 196.

and an interview with Gabrielle Hecht.  "African Histories of Technology:
A conversation with Keith Breckenridge and Gabrielle Hecht."  *Radical
History Review* (forthcoming).





On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Derek Peterson <drpeters at umich.edu> wrote:

> Dear Sugarman-ites:
>
> Keith Breckenridge and I are preparing the 2015-16 report for the Mellon
> Foundation concerning the ongoing collaboration joining WiSER with UM’s
> ASC.
>
> Could I ask you please to send me (at drpeters at umich.edu) news of any
> publications or achievements that have been animated by this collaboration?
> It is extremely helpful to point at substantial ‘deliverables’ when
> reporting to Mellon.
>
> As a reminder: in the last few years we’ve had workshops on ‘Theory from
> the Global South’; ‘African Studies in the Digital Age’; ‘Public Space,
> Infrastructure, and Informality in the Splintering City’; ‘History since
> E.P. Thompson’; ‘African Print Cultures’; and ‘Trash and Toxicity’. There
> have in addition been working groups on capitalism and other subjects.
>
> Do let me hear from you.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Derek
>
>
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> Professor of History & African Studies
> University of Michigan
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