<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>The meeting was held at WISER between 12 and 1pm; about a dozen people attended.<br><br></div><div>We discussed the arrangements for the overall project and the specific plans that emerged from the Michigan meeting (most of which are explained in my<span id="goog_1551964339"></span><span id="goog_1551964340"></span> <a href="http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/2013-November/000060.html">earlier email</a>.) We reviewed the topics covered by the proposal, and there was general agreement that the themes were wide ranging and usefully interwoven. (The proposal is available here: <a href="http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/2013-October/000055.html">http://lists.wits.ac.za/pipermail/sugarman/2013-October/000055.html</a>)<br>
<br></div><div>Chris Lee, Dilip Menon and Eric Worby agreed to be co-opted on to the organising committee for the first workshop on producing theory from the South. Their involvements will differ -- some purely bibliographical, others more administrative on the Wits side. Laura Phillips was also co-opted to assist in linking this collaboration with other institutions and people. <br>
<br></div><div>In the open discussion, Dilip Menon expressed an interest in exploring the intellectual ground that isn't well investigated by the different fields of Area Studies, looking for gaps between African Studies and South Asian Studies. He has a particular interest in pushing our scholarly enquiry beyond the short temporal frame provided by the colonial and the post-colonial. Mehita Iqani expressed a strong interest in the "interrogating neo-liberalism" theme, and pointed out that there is an interesting body of work in Media Studies on this issue (I forget the journal you had in mInd, Mehita, please remind me). Eric Worby is keen to involve Wits Post-Grads in the Humanities in the events of the workshop, and we agreed that he should be involved in the programming committee. And there was widespread agreement -- from Catherine Burns, Nafisa Essop Sheik, Dilip Menon -- that the proposal allows us to think very broadly about participants, in South Africa, the US and elsewhere. <br>
<br></div><div>I will send another email pointing people to the online archives of this list (which already has many useful resources) and encouraging people on both sides of the collaboration to invite people who may have an interest in the problems we will be pursuing.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If I've missed something important, please let me know. <br><br></div><div>Keith<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">
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