<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="">Hi friends——sorry for the short notice. Billy is an excellent writer, and a thoughtful politicized person. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Center for African Studies is located at 210 International Studies Bldg, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">billy keniston <<a href="mailto:kenisto2@illinois.edu" class="">kenisto2@illinois.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">I'm giving a talk, this Wednesday 1/25 at the Center for African Studies, at noon</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 20, 2017 at 1:02:28 PM CST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Taylor Sparow <<a href="mailto:tfsparow@gmail.com" class="">tfsparow@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear friends and colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This coming wednesday, I will be giving a talk at the Center for African Studies. There is more information below, but in more casual terms, I am going to be presenting my research that I have been doing, into the ways that the state repressed young white radicals that were influenced by Black Consciousness in the 1970s in South Africa. I have done a number of interviews with the friends of Rick Turner (<a href="http://www.morethanthinking.wordpress.com/" class="">www.morethanthinking.wordpress.com</a>) and have been reading through a 1,200 page government report on these young activists and the organizations they were a part of.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m trying to understand more deeply the relationship between the “thinking” arm of the government, and the “violent” arm, which are forever connected to one another, and working side by side. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I’m trying to understand what people - especially people with privilege - are supposed to do in response to a repressive society.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In that sense, at least, I hope that the talk is timely, and not “merely” history.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope to see you there,</div><div class="">billy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Gitler, Terri" <<a href="mailto:tgitler@illinois.edu" class="">tgitler@illinois.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">CAS brown bag, 1/25</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 18, 2017 at 1:09:23 PM CST<br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hello everyone,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">On Wednesday, January 25, we will have our first brown bag of the spring semester from noon to 1:00 in 101 ISB. It will feature Billy Keniston of the History Department speaking on "The Troubled Mind of Apartheid: Black Consciousness and White Radicals Through the Eyes of the 1972 Schlebusch Commission." A full description of the talk follows. Below and attached is a flyer for the event.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">We hope you will mark the opportunity on your calendars now to hear Mr. Keniston and add your comments after his talk.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thank you!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Abstract:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">In reading operatives of the state as themselves readers and writers, it is possible to begin entering into the troubled mind of apartheid.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The Schlebusch Commission (1972-1974) represents a pivotal moment in the struggle against apartheid. Initiated by the Minister of Justice, and supplied with “intelligence” by the Security Police and their informants, the Commission was convened in response to the growing momentum of the Black Consciousness Movement, and the corresponding radicalization of white university students. Using the Commission's six volume report as an archive, compared and contrasted against interviews I conducted with half a dozen people that were called to testify before the Commission, I have analyzed the apartheid state's capacity to understand these new political developments. In tracing the significance of the Schlebusch Commission, I am skeptical of any attempt to minimize the extent to which such an undertaking is dangerous. The state is always dangerous, and this remains true regardless of whether it acts through batons or bullets, surveillance or study. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><img id="Picture_x0020_1" class="" apple-inline="yes" height="311" width="240" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2718B.72657410"><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Terri L. Gitler<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Center for African Studies<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">910 S. Fifth Street<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Champaign, IL 61820<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">(217) 265-5016<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tgitler@illinois.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;" class="">tgitler@illinois.edu</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><img name="Keniston brown bag.jpg" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="83BF4140-E312-442D-A538-8F240BAD6852" height="311" width="240" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:12991297-E846-45E4-BE11-EDC3FAC47E1D"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>