Dear friends,
The annual 2016 Hutton Lectures symposium, a programme of The Kohima Institute, will be conducted this Dec 8th and 9th in Kohima, Nagaland in partnership with the North East Forum (NEF) and Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) of Ambedkar University Delhi. Sponsors include The South Asianist Journal (University of Edinburgh), Ambedkar University Delhi, The Kohima Institute, and private donors in the UK and Nagaland.
Attached is the 2016 Hutton Lectures poster with all these details [please kindly print and attach to your department bulletin board]
Our keynote speaker this year is Professor Siv Ellen Kraft, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
For more details, expressions of interest in attending or presenting (though presentation slots are limited), please contact:
Dr Michael Heneise, convenor, at +91-7085961330 (office), or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Our panel discussions
1. Orality, knowledge, and transmission
2. Landscapes, foods, technological practices
3. Indigenous knowledge and contemporary times
A short description:
The 2016 Hutton Lectures will provide a platform for debate on discourses of indigeneity and indigenous (or indeed ‘local’ or ‘traditional’) knowledge and skills. Presentations will recognise both the fraught historical, ideological, and discursive genealogies of ‘indigenous’ and its epistemological status in relation to western science, as well as important contemporary uses of the term (particularly by activists) in political debates, and in relation to developmental aid, and environmental conservation. The emphasis of the symposium will be on the cross-fertilisation of indigenous knowledge and new forms of transmission, encouraging different perspectives on ways of knowing and of disseminating knowledge, including experiential knowledge. Presentations will vary in form and style, but generally critique the hegemonic nature of scientificity and universalism in western academic discourse, striving to give equal voice and validity to local beliefs and practices, meaning structures, aesthetic values, and points of view. Presenters will thus present papers, video and photographic exhibitions, as well as narrate memories, observations and experience in the practice of locally embedded knowledge and beliefs. The sharing of ideas and forms of presenting, will contribute to understanding transformations and contemporary challenges in creating coeval, and grounded ‘ways of knowing’. Presentations, papers, and exhibitions will be edited and published in The South Asianist Journal at Edinburgh University, and appear in book form in 2017.
Programme:
Day 1 (Dec. 8th, 4pm-6pm)
Keynote: Prof Siv Ellen Kraft
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Open to the public
Day 2 (Dec. 9th, 9am-6pm)
All-day Symposium (AUD/KI)
8:30am Registration: Rs. 500
Locations: De Oriental Grand Hotel, Kohima, Nagaland
Regards,
Dr. Michael Heneise
The Kohima Institute
Kohima, Nagaland
P +917085961330
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