<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Sugarman-ites: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keith Breckenridge and I are preparing the 2015-16 report for the Mellon Foundation concerning the ongoing collaboration joining WiSER with UM’s ASC. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could I ask you please to send me (at <a href="mailto:drpeters@umich.edu" class="">drpeters@umich.edu</a>) news of any publications or achievements that have been animated by this collaboration? It is extremely helpful to point at substantial ‘deliverables’ when reporting to Mellon. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As a reminder: in the last few years we’ve had workshops on ‘Theory from the Global South’; ‘African Studies in the Digital Age’; ‘Public Space, Infrastructure, and Informality in the Splintering City’; ‘History since E.P. Thompson’; ‘African Print Cultures’; and ‘Trash and Toxicity’. There have in addition been working groups on capitalism and other subjects. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do let me hear from you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Derek </div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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