WISER - ASC Collaboration 1 : the Global South as a source of theory
Between May 5 and May 19, 2014, a workshop, sponsored by the Andrew W Mellon foundation, will be hosted in Johannesburg and at Wits Rural.   The workshop will consist of reading sessions, writing time and the presentation of works-in-progress.  It is intended to strengthen the collaboration between Wits and Michigan, the theoretical and empirical qualities of the work being produced in both institutions, and to result in at least one journal special edition.  The theme of the first workshop will be a critical investigation of the problematic of the Global South as a source of theory.   We will use the information you provide here to select participants.  Some of it will also be published on the collaboration web site.
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First name *
Your first or given name
Surname *
Your family or last name
Email address *
Your preferred email address
Institution *
Where are you based?  This collaboration is intended primarily for academics based at one of these two institutions, but we also welcome sponsored guest researchers.   Please indicate your sponsor's name.
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Role *
Are you a faculty member, a graduate student or something else?
Field
What is your primary area of academic research?
Biography *
Please provide a fulsome description of your own intellectual biography, focusing on the linkages between your work to date and the theme of this workshop (Global theory from the South).   Your biography needn't endorse the project of writing from the South -- it would be very useful to have contrary positions mapped out early on in this process.  Ideally we would like between 500 and 1000 words; you should be able to paste text in to this field.  This text will appear publicly on the WISER web site.
Bibliography
We are especially interested in gathering important and unusual references on this theme that can be shared with this group.    For example, you might think that Echevarrya, Roberto Gonzalez. “The Law of the Letter: Garcilaso’s Comentarios.” In Myth and Archive : A Theory of Latin American Narrative. Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature ; 3, 43–92. (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) is an especially insightful and largely unknown source.  Please spend a moment to provide one or two (or more references).
Presentation title
If you are currently working on something that would be appropriate for this workshop, please provide a title here.   The title will be provisional, and you can easily change it later.
Joining the writing retreat? *
After May 11 we will decamp to a rural site to give participants an opportunity to write, and for further discussions.    During this period, participants are free to stay in Johannesburg or to visit another city.
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Other issues?
If you'd like the organisers to know something important -- either on this theme, or on your own participation -- please capture it here.
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