TalkTalks
How Civilisations Remember: Twelve Technologies of African Knowledge, Memory and Transmission
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A public talk explores twelve ways African societies preserve and transmit knowledge.
The talk considers story, human memory, music, script, number, objects, land, time, seeds, symbols, language and technology as means of preserving and transmitting knowledge. The council programme gives a 18:00–19:30 slot at Stratford Library. No speaker is named on the council page.
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