Kohima, December 2 (MExN): The Kohima Institute has announced the fourth edition of its annual Hutton Lectures Symposium, along with the North East Forum (NEF), and Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) at Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD), as well as The South Asianist Journal of Edinburgh University, UK, on December 8 and 9 at the Conference Hall, Oriental Grand Hotel, Kohima, Nagaland. The Lectures envision a diffusion of knowledge between international scholars and local writers, thinkers, scholars, and social leaders, stated a press release issued by Kekhrie Yhome, Coordinator & Trustee, The Kohima Institute. Prof. Siv Ellen Kraft, of UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, shall deliver the 2016 Hutton Lectures Keynote on December 8, followed by interaction, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. This is an open session and requires no registration. All are welcome. Day two is an all-day symposium of workshops with teas and luncheon provided. All are welcome, but registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with a Rs. 500 fee to cover costs. Interested person(s) may contact via message at 70056-05596 and 98188-04474 or email <kekhrie@yahoo.com>. Thematically focused on indigeneity, and indigenous knowledge and skills, panel presentations by international, national, regional, and local scholars shall deliberate on the fraught historical, ideological, and discursive genealogies of ‘indigenous’ and its epistemological status in relation to western science, as well as important contemporary uses of the term (particularly by activists) in political debates, and in relation to developmental aid, and environmental conservation. The emphasis of the symposium will be on the cross-fertilisation of indigenous knowledge and new forms of transmission, encouraging different perspectives on ways of knowing and of disseminating knowledge, including experiential knowledge. The Kohima Institute’s year-end Hutton Lectures symposium is funded through the generous support of private donors, and governmental and non-governmental institutions alike. It is organised in collaboration with institutions of higher learning of both national and international repute. Previous partners included the Department of Art and Culture, Government of Nagaland; the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK; the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Oxford, UK; and the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 2013, The Kohima Institute is a trustee managed and is a non-political entity.
