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NEP-Public
Global Knowledge
The National University of Singapore colloquium is the latest in a
series held over the past three years involving a Theory, Culture &
Society group (Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, Bryan Turner, Roy Boyne, Couze Venn, Roland Robertson, Andy Wernick) in collaboration with scholars from Japan
and other parts of the world (Shunya Yoshimi,
Kenichi Kawasaki, Shujiro Yazawa,
Tetsuo Maruyama).
We are currently in the process of developing the first volume
entitled ‘Problematising Global Knowledge,’
which is scheduled as a Theory, Culture & Society special issue to
appear in early 2005. Further volumes on other topic areas (knowledge
clusters) are planned to appear in the TCS Book Series and other outlets.
A digital version available via the Internet is also being developed.
This is an ambitious project involving the development of a global
network of scholars who will work together to rethink the parameters for
a critical reconstitution of knowledge in the social sciences and
humanities.
Conference
Program
Thursday Evening:
informal gathering for drinks and dinner at the Hotel – we will be in the
Bar of the Hotel from 6-8 and from there can go to dinner with all who
are interested in so doing
All sessions will
be held in Ballroom II in the Grand Plaza Parkroyal
Hotel (10 Coleman St.)
Friday 23rd April
2004
9.00-10.45 Session
1: TRANSLATION
The question of
translation brings up the question of the process of transformation from
one text to another, from one language or culture to another so that in
its wake one is lead to think about what is at stake in the
re-transcriptions and appropriations involved in translation. The problem
is compounded because even within one language, the relation between
signifier and signified is not pure, unconstrained by interpretation; it
is conditioned by a history of interpretation and the investments in
them. In the background, there remains the question of the
untranslatable, because it has the status of the proper name, because of
incommensurable enframings of knowledge or
experience or because of the liminality of the
message.
Potential topics:
language, classification, world/lifeworld,
translation, culture.
Introduction:
the key role of translation in relation to knowing - Couze
Venn
Susantha Goonatilake - knowledge
(entry)
Rajeev Patke--
poetic knowledge (supplement)
John Hutnyk - culture (entry)
Saranindra Nath Tagore
- translation (supplement)
*Naoki Sakai -
Translation (Sakai will not be attending but his contribution should be
available)
10.45-11.15
coffee
11.15-1.00
Session 2: POWER/KNOWLEDGE
What has started as
a Foucauldian recognition of the positive
effects of power in the process of production of knowledge and in regimes
of truth has become a signpost to an analytic of knowledge. Knowledge
here is worldly, both in the sense that it has real effects in the world,
and in the sense that it participates in worlding
a world. It is part of assemblages, at once discursive and technical,
that have been put together in particular circumstances, that work, or
not, for all kinds of reasons, including the apprenticeship of actors and
agents, that is the formation of subjectivities for regimes of knowing
and doing. A new orientation to knowledge is indicated here.
Potential topics:
public, law, hospital, religion, discipline, race, enlightenment.
Introduction
Andy Wernick.
Pal Ahuwalia - race (entry)
Tatsuro Hanada -- the public
(entry)
Ryan Bishop &
John Phillips -violence (entry)
Bryan Turner -
religion (entry)
Robbie Goh --
religious sites/religion (supplement)
1.00-2.00 lunch
2.00-3.45
Session 3: GEOPOLITICS of
KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge increasingly
has become reorganised in terms of modes of
commodification, global networks of information and meaning-making
activity that determine its dissemination and dispersion through a
diversity of scapes, and shape the way it
enters into regimes of truth and ways of doing. One question has come to
the fore: the totalisations and homogenisations that attempt to colonise
the spaces of knowing, with implications for the forms of resistance and
dissidence that are now possible.
Topics: global,
civilization, modernity, cosmopolitanism, nation, science
Introduction
- Susantha Goonatilake
Beng Huat Chua -
modernity (supplement)
Li Shiqiao - modernity (supplement)
Ismail Talib -- nation
(supplement)
Pheng Cheah - cosmpolitanism (entry)
Shiv Visvanathan - alternative
science (supplement)
3.45-4.15
tea
4.15-5.15
General Discussion: the rationale for the entry list:
chair: Chua Beng Huat
*The agenda for the
business meeting to be held on Sunday morning also will be circulated for
comments from the entire colloquium.
Friday Night:
Colloquium Dinner (hosted by ARI and held at Chua Beng
Huat’s home)
Dinner will begin
at 7:00
Saturday 24th April
2004
9.00-10.45
Session 4: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE
This session
attempts to make visible the spatial and temporal relations of knowledge.
This is understood in the broad sense that knowledges
occupy sites that inflect the way they enter into the constitution of
meaning and world worlds, and in the sense that knowledges
become visibly and invisibly inscrypted -
inscribed and encrypted - in bodies. It is one way of putting on the
agenda the materiality of knowledge.
Potential topics:
body, life, art, city, gender, nature, space, experience, memory.
Introduction/chair:
Bryan Turner
Scott Lash -
experience (entry)
Josephine Ho -
gender (entry)
Brenda Yeoh - city/space (supplement: mobility/embodied
knowledge)
Bobby Wong - space
(supplement)
Ding Naifei - gender (supplement) or the
body(entry/supplement) (TBC)
10.45-11.15
coffee
11.15-1.00
Session 5: MEDIA/INFORMATION
The questions are:
Do new technologies of communication and storage radically alter how we
deal with knowledge? Do the new flows of knowledge disturb and
redistribute relations of power? Does the tendency towards the monopolisation of the machinery of production of
public knowledge disable democracy and undermine freedom? How does
the institutionalisation of insecurity affect
the flow of knowledge?
Potential topics:
technology, university, information, intelligence.
Introduction Scott
Lash
Shunya Yoshimi - information (entry)
Andy Wernick - university (entry)
Ryan Bishop -
university (supplement)
Kenichi Kawasaki -
museum (supplement)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.45
Session 6. ROUND TABLE
At this session the
focus will be on the structure and format of entries and the relationship
between entries and supplements. Two entries will be discussed
along with supplements.
Possible entries
selected from:
logics, archive,
collection or translation
*supplement-entry
relations and combinations to be tabled and discussed as well as
suggestions for specific supplements
Chair Ryan Bishop
3.45-4.00 Tea
4.00-5.00
Concluding Discussion: the structure of the
encyclopaedia-archive
Clusters, entries,
supplements and commentaries
Chair:
MF/CV
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