Laetitia Zecchini, « About the International Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures and the Indian Writer as Archivist-Activist »

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International workshop

THE ARCHIVE AS A KNOWLEDGE SITE: THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPE AND INDIA

Feb 2-3, 2023

Organized by:

~ School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University

~ ‘Archives of International Theory, an Intercultural Approach’

~ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

HL Roy Memorial Auditorium, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers

Jadavpur University Main Campus

Feb 2, 2023

Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/mak-aqrf-jye

Registration and tea 10:15-10:45

Session 1: 10:45-12:45

Inauguration and welcome address: Benedetta Zaccarello, Madhuchhanda Sen, and Abhijit Gupta

Chair: Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University

1. Daniel Raveh, Tel Aviv University: The Daya Krishna Archive: Introduction and Context [online]

2. Nirmalya Narayan Chakrabarti, Rabindra Bharati University: The Lost Age of Scholarship: Navya-Nyaya in Navadvipa [in-person]

Lunch 12:45-1:45 [Faculty Club]

Session 2: 1:45 – 3:15

1. Chair: Madhuchhanda Sen, Jadavpur University

2. Smita Khator, People’s Archive of Rural India: Re-imagining the archive through the lives of everyday people [in-person]

3. Benedetta Zaccarello, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM, CNRS/ENS Paris): ‘To know, one must imagine’: Georges Didi-Huberman and the archive as an ‘atlas of gestures’ [in-person]

Coffee: 3:15-3:45

Session 3: 3:45-5:30

Chair: Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University

1. The Endangered Archives Programme: a presentation

2. Suchismita Ghosh and Moumita Halder, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University: Two Centuries of Indian Print – Challenges and Opportunities of making Digital Collection Public [in-person]

3. Laetitia Zecchini, THALIM, CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris: About the International Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures and the Indian writer as archivist-activist [online]

5.30-6.30: Visit to the SCTR

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Feb 3 2023

Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/bdu-tjon-joe

Session 4: 10:30-12

Chair: Abhijit Roy, Jadavpur University

1. Moushumi Bhowmik: The Archive as Field and Field as Archive: Found Films of Kirtan from Mainadal [in-person]

2. Subrata Sinha, St Xavier’s College, Kolkata: Thoughts on a Prehistory of Archiving ‘Bangla Gaan [in-person]

Lunch: 12-1.15

Session 5: 1.15-2.45

Chair: Benedetta Zaccarello, ITEM, CNRS/ENS Paris

1. Albert Dichy, Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, Caen: Jean Genet: how to publish an unpublishable work [in person]

2. Ivan Chvatik, The Jan Patočka Archives, Prague: Recording, transcribing, and editing the lectures and seminars of Jan Patočka in 1970’s [online]

Coffee 2.45-3:15

Session 6: 3:15-5:30

Chair: Mainak Ghosh, Jadavpur University

1. Venkata Srinivasan, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore: The Archive as a Site of Public Education and Personal Growth [online]

2. Sujaan Mukherjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata: Trying to Be a Good Host: Reflections on Building an Online Archive [in-person]

3. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Professor Emeritus, Jadavpur University: The Epistemology of the Archive

Valedictory.

Thematic axes : Approches historiques des modernités littéraires et artistiques, Dynamiques interculturelles, Disciplines et frontières disciplinaires : méthodes, pratiques, outils

Research programmes : IRN (2023-2027): Postcolonial Print Cultures

Keywords : Arts & Literatures, Indian Studies, Postcolonial studies, Translation