Recorded Sessions

Click on the session’s title to view the recording for that session. Presenters’ biographies and abstracts can be found by clicking on their names.

Welcome: Tamar Mayer, Middlebury College

Learning to Write in the West

Stephanie Frampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Spectrum of Literacy: Writing and the ancient Maya

James Fitzsimmons, Middlebury College

Hebrew Language and Inquisition Censorship: The crisis of post-Tridentine Spanish humanism

Francisco Javier Perea Siller, University of Córdoba, Spain
Neo-Aramaic Enriched Biblical Narratives

Oz Aloni, Middlebury College
There’s an App for That: The democratization of texts and Qur’anic healing in Morocco

James Riggan, Florida State University

“My Knowledge Is Only from Books”: Textuality, orality, and literacy of women Sanskritists in postcolonial India

Laurie Patton, Middlebury College
Reifu Talismans in Japan: From secret transmission to commonplace symbol

Laura Miller, University of Missouri—St. Louis
Poetry as Equipment for Living: Imagining Navajo on the page and on the Internet

Anthony Webster, University of Texas at Austin

Failed Legacies of Colonial Linguistics: Lessons from Tamil Books in French India and French Guiana

Sonia Das, New York University
From Cultural Periphery to Cultural Capital: Ili and the making of modern Uyghur culture

Joshua Freeman, Harvard University
Sign Language Mediated by Digital Technology as a Link to Build Cultural Identities

Ana Gediel, Federal University of Viços, Brazil (with Molly Bloom, University of California, Los Angeles)

Creating Identity through Writing: A Case of ancient Greek vase inscriptions

Małgorzata Zadka, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Indexicals and Interdiscursivities

Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan

How to Write Chatino Right, Right Now

Hilaria Cruz, University of Kentucky
From Indigenous to Catalan (Is It Possible?): Shifting paradigms of identity in the Spanish postcolonial context

Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain
Theatre of Rebellion: Danny Yung and political Hong Kong theater

Wah Guan Lim, Bard College
Animal Writing in Tawada Yōko’s The Snow Apprentice

Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky