Epistemic Disobedience: Free Archives & Shadow Libraries
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An international meeting of researchers, librarians, and activists that
addresses equitable distribution of knowledge globally. Events held in Mumbai,
India July 4th-6th. Organized by Columbia University, TISS, Leuphana
University, CAMP, Multimedia Institute, Memory of the World and others.

We are inviting you to participate in a two day workshop at TISS Mumbai to be
held July 3-4th, 2016. The workshop will bring together activists, scholars,
artists, and librarians concerned with global inequalities facing knowledge
work. These manifest in the aggregation of material and scientific archives in
northern Europe and America; the pay-walls constructed by the corporate
publishing industry; and the amassing of digital labor in the Global South
while the prestige economy remains in the Global North. In this meeting, we
will investigate technological and artistic practices of epistemic resistance,
build alliances across borders and economies, share notes, and outline
possibilities for further concerted action.


Organizational detail:
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- Travel. Participants not able to pay for travel will be provided a travel
  stipend. We are not able to reimburse international travel: please arrange to purchase
your tickets with us directly. We will need a copy of your passport and your
exact travel dates. We have a limited number of travel vouchers for domestic trave.

- Accommodation. We have booked a number of rooms in a dormitory. We will send
  directions soon along with a more detailed itinerary.

- Visas. We are not able to provide visa support. We strongly recommended that
  you request a tourist visa at least a month in advance of travel and that
you do so through a local agency familiar with the process. Academic visas are
not advised. State the purpose of your visit as "tourism."

- Inoculation. Please remember to get appropriate shots for travel in the
  region. Consult with your physician before travel.


Provisional Schedule
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Pre-event workshop, July 2-3, at R&R
    2 day workshop on book digitization and shadow libraries, with the local
    community, Open Media Library and Memory of the World crews.

Meeting, July 4-6, at Tata Institute for Social Sciences
Day 1, June 4
    2hr Closed Meeting: Shadow libraries and archives in India
    2hr Tactical Media Workshop I: Production
    2hr Public Panel TISS: Tactical media

Day 2, July 5
    2hr Closed Meeting: Epistemic disobedience
    2hr Tactical Media Workshop II: Distribution
    2hr Public Panel R&R: Decolonizing knowledge infrastructures

Day 3, July 6
    4hr Visiting the Initiatives: CAMP + Center for Education & Documentation,
    2hr Reception TBA


Participating Partners (please add)
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    www.mi2.hr/en
    xpmethod.plaintext.in
    studio.camp
    sarai.net
    leuphana.de/en/research-centers/cdc.html
    maydayrooms.org
    pukar.org.in
    School of Environment and Architecture
    sea.edu.in
    thepublicschool.org
    Centre for Labour Studies, TISS