Hello all--<div><br></div><div>My interests would be (basically in descending order, but would be happy with any of these)--</div><div><ul><li> The Global South as an idea and a source of theory</li><li> Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation</li>
<li> Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city</li><li> Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics</li><li> The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa</li>
<li> Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects</li><li>The politics of heritage</li><li> Legacies of the imperial archive in post-colonial history, museums and performance</li></ul>
<div>Cheers, and really enthused about this!</div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div><ul><li><br></li><li>On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Keith Breckenridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za" target="_blank">keith@breckenridge.org.za</a>></span> wrote:</li>
</ul><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends,<br><br></div><div>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. <br>
<br><div>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). <br>
<br></div>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. <br>
<br><div>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.<br>
</div><div><br>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):<br>
<br></div>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. <br>
<br>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. <br><div><br></div><div>3) Plan for publication of some of the work, ideally as a special edition in one of the journals well matched to the problems. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br>
<br></div><div>The proposed themes include:<br></div><ul><li>Many thanks, Keith</li></ul><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: <a href="tel:%2B27117174272" value="+27117174272" target="_blank">+27117174272</a> | Fax: 0867654213 </span>| <span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Web</span>: <font><a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za</a></font></div>
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