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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the email. I’d be interested in:
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Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city <o:p>
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The Global South as an idea and a source of theory<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kelly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Keith Breckenridge [mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za]
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<b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2013 11:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Sugarman] Getting started<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We should now begin to assemble the people, ideas and projects that will carry this collaboration project for the next five years. Our proposal is clear about the themes we have in mind, and we had to adjust
theme to meet Mellon's objections, so we should try, very hard, to stick to them. It might be necessary, and interesting, to set up subsets within each of these themes, narrow or expand them, but let's see how far we can get before we do that.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">To begin with we have in mind workshops in Johannesburg in our late Summer (timed to coincide with the Michigan Spring Break), and workshops in Ann Arbor in the Fall, probably in September. (The exact dates
will have to be worked out by the workshop committees). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Our first object should be to assemble committees around the themes we have selected, and to do that the easiest way to begin will be for people to indicate in which of the themes (at the bottom of this message)
they'd be interested to participate. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please reply to the list (yes, that will generate a bit of mail) explaining your interests. For many people at both institutions this will be a useful way to meet potential collaborators. WISER and the ASC will use those replies to assemble
the committees.<o:p></o:p></p>
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WISER will support the project vigorously throughout, intellectually and politically, but the committees will be responsible for at least the following things (and I'm sure that there will be more):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) Assembling a group of thirty interesting people, including about a dozen who will fly from one side of the world to the other. Most of those people, but not all, should come from (or have very close links with) Wits or Michigan.
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2) Chose readings, and works in progress from participants, to ensure that the workshops produce new kinds of arguments and advance what we know and think about each of the problems.
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">4) Think carefully through a program of events -- workshops, lectures, exhibitions, visits -- that will (again) produce new and stronger insights in to each problem area.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The proposed themes include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The Global South as an idea and a source of theory<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, we have six themes mentioned in the proposal which we might reasonably adapt or (ideally) join to the list above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Social History after Edward Thompson<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
The politics of heritage<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Province and diaspora in African intellectual history<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
The cultural politics of science and technology<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
The cultural politics of performance and media<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks, Keith<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:#990000">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:#666666"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050
| Tel: +27117174272 | Fax: 0867654213 </span>| <span style="color:#666666">Web</span>:
<a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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