Nota Bene: The Theory and Practice of Taking Notes
Fri, 10/2 · 1:00 pm—7:00 pm · Princeton University
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
This event will bring a private and preliminary enterprise into the spotlight for a day: to consider specific techniques and media of note-taking, and ask what they mean for attention, memory, and thought.
The event consists of three panels – on “Book Notes,” “Field Notes,” and “Art Notes,” respectively – over the course of the day, which discuss the theories and practices of note-taking from their individual perspectives. This will be followed by a note-taking expo, at which Princeton faculty will set up their several note-taking and -retrieving routines as a series of booths at a fair, for a browsing audience to take note. The audience will be invited to participate in forms of shared and experimental note taking. By turning the invisibilities and idiosyncrasies of everyone’s note-taking routines inside out, we hope this event will investigate and celebrate the multitude of practices subsumed under the notion of “note” today.
Open to the public. Organized by Jeff Dolven and Florian Fuchs.
