Transmissions

Transmissions is an ongoing series of conversations about movement: the movement of information, ideas, media, and people. We are interested in all places where ideas and people from different contexts and times come into contact with each other, change, and are changed in the process. Textual transmission is the paradigmatic example of the things that preoccupy us. We want to know what happens in the processes of creation and conveyance of texts, how those texts reach us, and what texts are and aren’t. But Transmissions concerns more than texts alone. Oral literature and material culture also feature, as does consideration of our own roles as scholars. Transmissions does not acknowledge any geographic limitation and everyone is invited to join our discussions. We ask only that participants come ready for exchange. We look forward to a cross-pollination of ideas and methodologies across divisions of field and chronology, and the theoretical and methodological insights that will ensue.