Linguapax
IMAGINING THE INTANGIBLE Languages, Literature and Visual Arts of the Indigenous
2011 Linguapax Award winner Ganesh Devy is hosting a chorto in Vadodara, India entitled Imaging the Intangible: Languages, Literature and Visual Arts of the Indigenous. A chorto is a Bhili tribal term that means ‘bring together', which this conference will do by uniting writers, artists and scholars interested in languages, literature and the cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples from all over the world.
The chorto will take place January 6-8, 2012. Topics to be discussed:
Culture and Development/ Culture for Development
Notions of the Intangible in Relation to Oral Traditions of Literature,
Traditional Knowledge of the Indigenous,
Threatened and Endangered Languages,
Semantics of Intern-generational Oral Communication,
Visual Anthropology of Indigenous Arts,
Aesthetics of Representation of Inheritance,
Oral Translations, Memory Based Performance Traditions,
Colonialism and Cultural Amnesia,
State Structures and Language Loss,
Wellness and its Expressions