Social History and Impacts

• The Secret Life of Copyright

  John Tehranian
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Dream of a Bridge Between East and West

  Nooshie Motaref
  Innovation Showcase
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 16:30

• Decolonizing Design Education

  Karthika Vijayan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Effects of Interdisciplinary Education and the Integral Practices of Critical Race Theory on Community-based Interactions in Education

  Zartasha Shah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Literature Review on the Essential Areas of the Concept of "Gender Equality"

  Aroa Martínez García, Iratxe Suberviola Ovejas
  Workshop Presentation

• Lockean and Hegelian Theories of Property and the Imperfect Duty to Contribute to the Digital Commons

  Roman Briggs
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Mediums of Disruption

• Get to Know the BookToker!

  Anika Ausness Ayres
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Choose Your Feeling

  Maya Linsley
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Evaluating the Social-Cognitive Impacts of Social Networking Sites Engagement on Underage Children

  Alemayehu Regasa Balcha
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Dissecting Digital Distractions

  Waris Ahmad Faizi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Continuing Kittler's Unfinished Discourse Network 2000 and Knowledge Production

  Zheyang Zeng
  Workshop Presentation

Informational Foundations

• Hinduism Lives as a Local Knowledge

  France Azema
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 7 : 2025-06-26 10:55

• Publishing Studies

  Kimberly Michelle Gay
  Workshop Presentation

• A Systematic Literature Review on Participatory Communication in China

  Yang Liu
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

• Publishing Resistance

  Abba Abba
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Deplastification - Interdisciplinary Practices for Social Impact

  Dominika Sobolewska
  Poster Session

• The Role of Neutrosophic Logic in Computing Synthetic Meaning

  Labidi Bouabdallah, Edward Hogshire
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:40

• The Effect of a Multi-Cultural Environment on the Language Used to Discuss Environmental Sustainability

  Edward Hogshire, Usra Idris, Labidi Bouabdallah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:20

• The Brokenness of Grammar

  Xiaohan Hou
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Speculating Biodiverse Futures with Indigenous Knowledge Systems

  Tanya Ruka
  Poster Session

• UNIQUEWAYS Podcast Report

  Thomas Girard
  Innovation Showcase

• Old Journal, New Scope

  Helena Gurfinkel
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:00

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Secret Life of Copyright

  John Tehranian
  Social History and Impacts

• Get to Know the BookToker!

  Anika Ausness Ayres
  Mediums of Disruption

• Hinduism Lives as a Local Knowledge

  France Azema
  Informational Foundations
  Room 7 : 2025-06-26 10:55

• Publishing Resistance

  Abba Abba
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

• The Role of Neutrosophic Logic in Computing Synthetic Meaning

  Labidi Bouabdallah, Edward Hogshire
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:40

• Decolonizing Design Education

  Karthika Vijayan
  Social History and Impacts

• A Systematic Literature Review on Participatory Communication in China

  Yang Liu
  Informational Foundations

• Effects of Interdisciplinary Education and the Integral Practices of Critical Race Theory on Community-based Interactions in Education

  Zartasha Shah
  Social History and Impacts

• The Effect of a Multi-Cultural Environment on the Language Used to Discuss Environmental Sustainability

  Edward Hogshire, Usra Idris, Labidi Bouabdallah
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:20

• The Brokenness of Grammar

  Xiaohan Hou
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

• Choose Your Feeling

  Maya Linsley
  Mediums of Disruption

• Evaluating the Social-Cognitive Impacts of Social Networking Sites Engagement on Underage Children

  Alemayehu Regasa Balcha
  Mediums of Disruption

• Dissecting Digital Distractions

  Waris Ahmad Faizi
  Mediums of Disruption

• Old Journal, New Scope

  Helena Gurfinkel
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 15:00

• Lockean and Hegelian Theories of Property and the Imperfect Duty to Contribute to the Digital Commons

  Roman Briggs
  Social History and Impacts

Innovation Showcase

• The Dream of a Bridge Between East and West

  Nooshie Motaref
  Social History and Impacts
  Room 7 : 2025-06-25 16:30

• UNIQUEWAYS Podcast Report

  Thomas Girard
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

Workshop Presentation

• Publishing Studies

  Kimberly Michelle Gay
  Informational Foundations

• Continuing Kittler's Unfinished Discourse Network 2000 and Knowledge Production

  Zheyang Zeng
  Mediums of Disruption

• Literature Review on the Essential Areas of the Concept of "Gender Equality"

  Aroa Martínez García, Iratxe Suberviola Ovejas
  Social History and Impacts

Poster Session

• Deplastification - Interdisciplinary Practices for Social Impact

  Dominika Sobolewska
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

• Speculating Biodiverse Futures with Indigenous Knowledge Systems

  Tanya Ruka
  2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices

Hinduism Lives as a Local Knowledge

France Azema
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

In this paper, I examine the circulation and transformation of religious knowledge and practices in India. In doing so, I seek to clarify questions of knowledge and power in religious practices and to explain the contingencies of places, languages, cultural level and action. Human beings are active agents in the production of knowledge and they know how to transform their practices to adapt them to their situations. Religious knowledge must therefore become "local" in order to function and be recognized as knowledge. In Hinduism, only priests can read sacred texts written in Sanskrit. Thus, the transmission of religion to the most remote villages is essentially done orally. In this paper, I discuss the multiplicity and diversity of teachings and practices of Hinduism due to the mode of circulation of knowledge. My assertion is that as knowledge, interpretations and practices are propagated and migrate, they also change, and in turn modify the societies and devotees. To be viable, religious knowledge must become "local knowledge" and adapt to local needs. So, study the circulation of religious knowledge in India opens the way to understanding the cultural and religious diversities of Hinduism. The journey of knowledge of Hinduism in India most often results in a two-way exchange, thus leading not to homogeneity but to a the heterogeneity and hybridization of knowledge, interpretations and religious practices.