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DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

AND SOCIAL SCIENCES


ANNUAL ACADEMIC

SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES:
CONFERENCE
2-3-4 FEBRUARY 2018

OTHER FORMS OF KNOWING


IIT MADRAS

These are just a few of the ques-


Foucaults understanding of subjugated knowledges refers to a whole
set of knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to the
tions we aim to address through
the conference, and we invite pa-
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE
task or insufficiently elaborated; naive knowledges, located low down pers under (but not limited to) the
on the hierarchy, beneath the required level of cognition or scientific- following sub-themes.
ity. (1980, 81-2)1. In organizing a conference around the project of the
re-emergence of such knowledges, we invite scholars to contribute GENERAL INFORMATION
Medicine & healthcare
original work on questions, themes, and concerns that might also Abstracts of no more than
Language, translation & diversity 500 words should be sub-
pause to think about the question of naivet and scientificity. Education & pedagogy mitted to dohssconfer-
Indigeneity ence@gmail.com by Octo-
We invite papers from across the social sciences and humanities that Religious practice ber 15, 2017. All abstracts
might contribute new archives, forms of reading, and modes of analy- Cultural recovery & reinvention will be blind reviewed by a
sis. In the process, we hope that together, we can think collectively Postcoloniality team of scholars, and au-
about the production of non-Eurocentric, indigenous, postcolonial, New media engagements thors will be notified of se-
developing knowledge. Occult imaginaries lection by November 1,
Constructing the archive 2017. Full text submission
Questions we are interested in exploring include: alternative forms of Art & art curation of selected papers is due by
knowing, religion and modernity, indigeneity and knowledge, corrupt Historiography December 15, 2017.
(ed) archives, recovering/ reinventing language, contemporary ethnog- Economy & economic planning
raphy, new texts, the politics of new knowledge, validity, and authentic- New political movements Please write to hssconfer-
ity. Alternate currencies & banking ence2018@gmail.com or
practices dohssconfer-
(1) Foucault, Michel, and Colin Gordon. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Identity politics ence@gmail.com.
Writings, 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Print.

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