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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Keith, the following are of interest to me (though I would consider myself nothing more than a relatively well-informed non-expert in these fields) :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation; Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city; Social History after Edward Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Clive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Keith Breckenridge [keith@breckenridge.org.za]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 22, 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</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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></span></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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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>
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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"><span style="color:black">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"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">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"><span style="color:black">The proposed themes include:<o:p></o:p></span></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="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Textual analysis, visual culture and the state in the making of African publics
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Interrogating Neoliberalism as idea and explanation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
The politics of literacy, legibility and expert knowledges in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Narrative, visual forms and biopolitics in the medical humanities <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Cultural studies of science and technology in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Intellectual property and curatorship in the digital humanities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Public spaces, informality and infrastructures in the desegregating city <o:p>
</o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Vernacular literatures in the making of transnational movements and subjects<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
The Global South as an idea and a source of theory<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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></span></p>
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The perils and possibilities of the digital humanities in Africa<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
Social History after Edward Thompson<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
The politics of heritage<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
Province and diaspora in African intellectual history <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
The cultural politics of science and technology<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
The cultural politics of performance and media<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Many thanks, Keith<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Keith Breckenridge </span><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:black">| </span><span style="color:#666666">Web</span><span style="color:black">:
<a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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