<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone,<br><br>My interests would probably be best represented by:<br><br>Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation<br>The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa<br>
Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa<br>Social History after Edward Thompson<br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div>Stephen<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Kelly Askew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaskew@umich.edu" target="_blank">kaskew@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear <span>Keith</span> and all,<br><br>Thanks for the nudge to get us started, <span>Keith</span>.
The committees that I'd be interested to join are (not ranked, simply listed):<br><ol><div class="im"><li>Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics</li></div><li>Interrogating neoliberalism as idea and explanation</li>
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<li>Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects</li></div><li>The perils and possibilities of digital humanities in Africa [can perhaps absorb: Intellectual property
and curatorship in the digital humanities]</li><div class="im"><li>The Global South as an idea and a source of theory</li></div><div class="im"><li>The cultural politics of performance and media</li></div></ol>Given
the proposal that the first workshop is to be held at Wits, I defer to
you and your colleagues to propose what that first workshop ought to be
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<br>It was nice to meet you over the weekend. Hope you enjoy the rest of your time in the UK.<br><br>all best,<br>Kelly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gabrielle Hecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hechtg@umich.edu" target="_blank">hechtg@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for launching us, Keith!<div><br></div><div>
I am most centrally interested in the following themes:</div>
<div><ul><li>Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa (which of course also include cultural politics of sci & tech)</li><li>Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city</li><li>
The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa</li></ul><div>But would also be intrigued by workshops addressing the following:</div><div><ul><li>Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation</li>
<li>The Global South as an idea and a source of theory</li><li>The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa</li><li>Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities</li></ul></div></div>
Best<div>Gabrielle<br><br><div>
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<a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hechtg/" style="font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><b>Gabrielle Hecht</b></a><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b><div style="font-weight:normal"><b>Professeure invitée, Sciences Po / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales </b></div>
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<i style="font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Being-Nuclear-Africans-Global-Uranium/dp/0262017261/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332867481&sr=8-1" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade</a> </i><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Corbel;word-spacing:0px"><b>(MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press, 2012)</b></span></div>
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