{"id":1283,"date":"2025-03-11T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/?page_id=1283"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:16:33","slug":"paris-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org\/index.php\/paris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
Law and Print in Postcolonial Contexts: Censorship, Copyright and Piracy<\/strong><\/h5>\n

July 5-6, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Organized by Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS) at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, this conference seeks to address the relationship between print \u00a0and legislation, censorship and copyright in postcolonial contexts. It aims to explore the role of colonial and postcolonial institutions, of the state and other gate-keepers in the regulation of print; the forms and practices of cultural regulation and censorship particular to certain postcolonial contexts; as well as the many alternative, informal or interstitial publishing networks, spaces and practices operating outside official (or monitored) circuits. Please find the final program here<\/a><\/strong> and the concept note here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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A moment at the conference, July 6, 2024.<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanya Agathocleus (Hunter College) \u2013 Elara Bertho (CNRS) \u2013 Supurna Dasgupta (UChicago) \u2013 Claire Ducournau (Universit\u00e9 Paul Val\u00e9ry-Montpellier \u2013 Shrutakirti Dutta (UChicago) \u2013 Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University) \u2013 Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) \u2013 Elisabeth Holt (Bard Collegue) \u2013 Paulo Horta (NYU Abu Dhabi) \u2013 Claire Joubert (Universit\u00e9 Paris 8) \u2013 Sandra Ata\u00edde Lobo (CHAM \u2013 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) \u2013 Adelaide Viera Machado (CHAM \u2013 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) \u2013 Josephine McDonagh (UChicago) \u2013 Mantra Mukim (CYU Paris) \u2013 Kaneesha Parsard (UChicago) \u2013 James Procter (Newcastle University) \u2013 Zahia Rahmani (INHA, Paris) \u2013 Asha Rogers (Birmingham) \u2013 Sami Rustom (Fehras Publishing Practices) \u2013 Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) \u2013 Robert JC Young (NYU) \u2013 Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS).<\/p>\n

Concept Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This international conference addresses the relationship between print (understood inclusively, i.e. print in interaction with audio-visual forms and with performance) and legislation, censorship and copyright in postcolonial contexts. It aims to explore the role of colonial and postcolonial institutions, of the state and other gate-keepers in the regulation of print; the forms and practices of cultural regulation and censorship particular to certain postcolonial contexts; as well as the many alternative, informal or interstitial publishing networks, spaces and practices operating outside official (or monitored) circuits.<\/p>\n

How are \/ were postcolonial print cultures (their production, distribution and consumption) affected by legislation, and shaped by colonial laws of copyright and censorship? What are the protocols, institutions, actors, modes of reading, etc. that discriminate between what is considered objectionable, offensive, seditious or illicit, and what is not; what can be made public, what can be said, read (heard or seen) and what cannot; what gets to cross borders, and what doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

If postcolonial print cultures, and access to print culture archives, may have been stunted or hindered by legislation, by practices of censorship and propaganda, how, conversely, could postcolonial writers, editors, publishers, readers and collectives also defy legislation and emancipate themselves from state\/colonial interference or control? What were the alternative creative and strategic practices (of authorship, of publishing, exhibiting, writing, translating, collecting, distributing etc.) triggered in the process? How have certain genres, certain spaces and formats, offered alternative platforms for textual and artistic production, for experimentation and critique?<\/p>\n

Conflicts over copyright in many postcolonial contexts, also stage classic intellectual property battles between the South and North which have their roots in the colonial period. While the fights over copyright during the colonial period were waged in law courts, the battlefield has become much more general and widespread in postcolonial print cultures.<\/p>\n

This conference aims to explore such a \u2018battlefield\u2019, and invites contributions in the form of short presentation that could explore the above points and also include the following themes:<\/p>\n