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How Do We Keep Knowing:
A Symposium on the Transmission and Preservation of Knowledge
Photo by Melanie Hawthorne
5 April 2008
College Station Hilton Hotel
and Conference Center
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
SESSION I: Transmission
Keynote Address - 9:00 a.m.
Sheldon Pollock (Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Columbia University), “No Time Like the Present? No Place Like Home? Why Bother with Premodern India?”
Panel - 10:30 a.m.
Pallabi Chakravorty (Music & Dance, Swarthmore College),
“Moved to Dance: Desire, Bhakti, and Commodity in India”
Alice Echols (English, University of Southern California)
"Moving and Knowing: Embodied Knowledge on the Disco Dance Floor"
David Darts (Art & Art Education, New York University), “DIY Culture: How Participatory Media and Collective Intelligence are changing the Ways We Create, Learn, and Live”
SESSION II: Preservation
Keynote Address - 1:30 p.m.
David B. Gracy II (School of Information, University of Texas at Austin), “’But, Oh, How Our Daddy Has Changed!’ Archival Enterprise in the Transmission and Preservation of Knowledge”
Panel - 3:00 p.m.
Betty Joseph (English, Rice University), “The Archive To Come”
Jane Lancaster (Public Historian), “Benevolent Females, Polluting Mill-Owners, Reformed Prostitutes and the Marine Corps of Artillery: The Question of Audience in Keeping and Transmitting Knowledge”
Deepika Bahri (English, Emory University)
"The Discovery and Creation of the Archive in Postcolonial Studies"
Roundtable Discussion (to follow)
Moderated by Kathleen Woodward (English, University of Washington)
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