<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Hi Keith and everyone,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I like the following:</span></font></div><ul type="disc" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating (but also RE-segregating) city <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The Global South as an idea and a source of theory</li></ul></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><div><br></div><div>The first topic is quite big and might merit a 2 week "course" that combined perhaps lectures and site visits?? For that one, it might be useful to bring studies of cities in SA and the literature on cities in the global south into conversation with the more abstract theoretical literature in urban studies that often treats cities in the north as the "norm" and everything else as somehow deviant. It seems to me too that shrinking cities like Detroit with all of its challenges providing health care, education, public transportation, affordable housing might have something to learn from cities in the south and their residents. </div><div><br></div><div>Neoliberalism and the Global South as ideas and explanations could be usefully combined….Neoliberalism seems to me a tired topic but I'd be very interested in how we might reconceptualize it…..</div><div><br></div><div>ap</div><div>Anne Pitcher</div><div>Professor of African Studies and Political Science</div><div>Associate Chair, African Studies</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>4700 Haven Hall</div><div>505 S. State Street</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Kelly Gillespie <<a href="mailto:Kelly.Gillespie@wits.ac.za">Kelly.Gillespie@wits.ac.za</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:42 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Keith Breckenridge <<a href="mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za">keith@breckenridge.org.za</a>>, "<a href="mailto:sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za">sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za</a>" <<a href="mailto:sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za">sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Sugarman] Getting started<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-ZA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks for the email. I’d be interested in:
<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc"><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">
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: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Kelly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> Keith Breckenridge [<a href="mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za">mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za</a>]
<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2013 11:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za">sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Sugarman] Getting started<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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.
<o:p></o:p></p><div><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></div><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><div><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></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><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):<o:p></o:p></p></div><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.
<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><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.
<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><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.
<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The proposed themes include:<o:p></o:p></p></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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><div><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></div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
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></div><p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks, Keith<br clear="all"><br>
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