The symposium will occur in two parts. On June 4, we’ll gather for a series of one-hour long panel discussions/workshops throughout the day. There will be a 15 minute break after the first panel and a 45 minute break after the second one. All of the panelists will convene on June 11 for a follow-up discussion.
Program
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Panel 1: Authorship in Question
07:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 19:30 IST (1 Hour)
Discussant: Manan Ahmed, Columbia University
Chair: Shuvatri Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
Juan Carlos G Mantilla, Columbia University: Inventing Indio, Becoming Author: Theories of Indigenous Authorship in the Early Modern Andes
Manaswini Sen, University of Hyderabad: The Most Potent Tool of Agitprop? Pamphleting, Working-Class Mobilization, and Intellectual History from Below: A Case Study of Trade Unionism in Late colonial Bengal (1920-47)
Kentaro Inagaki, University of Copenhagen: Levinus Warner (d. 1665) and unsung amanuenses: Early modern oriental scholarship from the viewpoint of Ottoman assistants
Panel 2: Genres of Collaboration
08:15 PDT / 11:15 EDT / 16:15 BST / 20:45 IST (1 Hour)
Discussant: Nasser Zakariya, UC Berkeley
Chair: Tom Furse, City, University of London
Joslyn DeVinney, Columbia University: Authorship in Translation: An 18th-century Persian Medical Manual
Fyza Parviz Jazra, Stanford University: The Myth of the Lone European Astronomer in the Near East: John Greaves’s interactions with the local Arab Astronomers
Anish Gawande, University of Oxford: Contested Creations: Invention and Innovation Within the Mushaira
Panel 3: Rethinking Archives
10:00 PST / 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST / 22:30 IST (1 Hour)
Discussant: Sophie Smith, University of Oxford
Chair: Isabel Jacobs, Queen Mary, University of London
Kelvin Ng, Yale University: Itineraries of Self-Respect: Oceanic Migration, Intellectual Labor and Anti-Caste Reform, 1929–1940
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney, Columbia University: “For Seeing, so as Not to Have to Talk About Them”: On “Wander Lines” and the Presuppositions of Intellectual History
Edoardo Vaccari, London School of Economics: Heretic Socialism: Collaborative Authorship in the Antifascist Journal ‘Quaderni di Giustizia e Liberta’ (1932-1935)
Saturday, June 11
07:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 19:30 IST
Follow-up discussion for all panels
Registration
Please register using the link below:
https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkc-Gsqz8sGNFC1Bxr7hnSHUmFzbpl4IHa
Please submit any questions to: blogjhi@gmail.com.
Featured Image: 18th century illustration of different phases of the moon, from the manuscripts of the Kitab al-Tafhim by Al-Biruni
