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India and the World: Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai New Arcs of Knowledge Transregional Academy November 24–30, 2019 India and the World: Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai New Arcs of Knowledge Program and Abstracts Impressum Claudia Pfitzner, MA (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices ), Jule Ulbricht, BA (Art Histories and Aes- thetic Practices), Vrinda Agrawal, MA (Tagore National Scholar, Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh) Corporate Design: Plural | Severin Wucher, Berlin Image: Shakuntala Kulkarni, Photo Performance, B/6 Saraswat Co-Op Building, Gamdevi, 2010-12. (c) Shakuntala Kulkarni and Chemould Prescott Road, photograph by Shivani Gupta © 2019 Forum Transregionale Studien India and the World: New Arcs of Knowledge Transregional Academy November 24–30, 2019 Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai Venues Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya 159-161, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai 400023, Maharashtra, India [email protected] Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Center/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 10 Lake Terrace Kolkata 700029, West Bengal, India [email protected] Dakshina Chitra Museum East Coast Road Muttukadu, Chennai Chengalpet District 600118, Tamil Nadu, India [email protected] Contact Prof. Dr. Nachiket Chanchani Associate Professor of South Asian Art and Visual Culture, Departments of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan 855 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Hannah Baader Academic Program Director Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Forum Transregionale Studien Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Contents Concept Note ........................................................................... 4 Program (Table) ....................................................................... 5 Program (Detailed) ................................................................. 6 Participants and Projects .................................................... 11 Steering Committee .............................................................. 24 Guest Scholars ........................................................................ 27 Institutional Framework ....................................................... 31 Notes .......................................................................................... 32 Concept Note India and the World: New Arcs of Knowledge Transregional Academy November 24–30, 2019 Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai Studying the visual and material culture of Sciences Calcutta (Kolkata), Dakshina Chitra the Indian subcontinent constitutes a gateway Museum (Chennai) and Chhatrapati Shivaji toward understanding much of the intellectual Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Mumbai). and cultural heritage of the globe, from antiquity The organizers acknowledge Prof. Dr. Tapati to the present day. The assemblages of objects Guha-Thakurta's role in co-organizing the Kol- and images produced and used in the subconti- kata segment of the Transregional Academy. nent —Buddhist stupas, sprawling temple-cities, Mughal carpets, Chettiyar homes, Satyajit Ray The Transregional Academy will be led by the films, bazaar paintings, family photographs and following scholars: much else—represent more than the inherit- ance of the subcontinent. This Academy brings Prof. Dr. Nachiket Chanchani together artists, curators, and scholars who are (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) critically investigating such objects and images, and are interested in explicating how they are Dr. Hannah Baader equally the heritage of many other cultures and (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Berlin/ communities. Many of them have emerged from Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max- encounters with other mediums and with other Planck-Institut) regions, which, in turn, have been reflected, Prof. Dr. Rosinka Chaudhuri reshaped, and reformed by the art of subconti- (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) nent. Prof. Dr. Tapati Guha-Thakurta The Transregional Academy will be held at (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Dr. Deborah Thiagarajan in Mumbai, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, (Dakshina Chitra Museum/ Madras Craft Foun- Calcutta, and at Dakshina Chitra Museum in dation, Chennai) Chennai in various formats including a sympo- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf sium where research papers will be presented, (Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Insti- site visits, experiential learning sessions, and tut, Florenz) discussions. The Transregional Academy is organized by http://academies.hypotheses.org/ Prof. Dr. Nachiket Chanchani (University of www.forum-transregionale-studien.de www.art-histories.de Michigan, Ann Arbor) in collaboration with Art www.khi.fi.it Histories and Aesthetic Practices program at www.cssscal.org the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin), Kun- www.csmvs.in sthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck- www.dakshinachitra.net Institut (Florence), Centre for Studies in Social 4 Program (Table) SAT, Nov 23 SAT. Nov 24 MON, Nov 25 TUE, Nov 26 WED, Nov 27 THU, Nov 28 FRI, Nov 29 SAT, Nov 30 Welcome at Panel 6 Workshop Welcome and CSSSC/ R. Ghose Introduction Introduction of all V. Gupta ‘Making Things in Round Table South Asia’ participants P. Roy Choudhury Conversation Travel to Travel to Panel 1 ‘The Indian House Kolkata H. Baader Chennai as an Archive’ ‘City as an N. Kimmet Panel 7 D. Thiagarajan B. Kuriakose Archive’ walk J. Pal R. Chaudhuri S. Menon Final Discussion through UNESCO Panel 2 S. Mitra R. Jafer World Heritage S. Mallik W. Bamber R. Bernhaut P. Singh A Lunch 5 R Tour of CSMVS Panel 3 Panel 8 galleries and R T. Guha-Thakurta P. Deshpande special exhibition I M. Sil S. Agarwal N. Rizvi S. Bhatawadekar Walk through V Dakshina Chitra Discussion on the A campus with making of ‘India Visit to Victoria Panel 4 Panel 9 curators L Memorial Hall and the World’ N. Chanchani T. Banerjee End of and grounds led Visit to exhibition with M. Manohar J. Bachman Academy/ by P. Wibulsilp I. López Arnaiz Mahabalipuram S. Mukherjee T. Guha-Thakurta Departure Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break Conversation Panel 5 Tour of JBMRC- Dance with artists L. Subramanian CSSSC visual Performance at A. Dodiya and N. Grancho archives with Dakshina Chitra G. Patel S. Lewis K. Mukherjee Museum Dinner at Dinner: personal Dinner: personal Conference Dinner: personal Dinner: personal Dakshina Chitra arrangements arrangements Dinner arrangements arrangements Museum Program Sunday, Nov 24 Monday, Nov 25 7:35am Departure/ Travel to 9:00am Academy Introduction Kolkata Welcome by Nachiket Chanchani and Hannah Flight 6E 6749 Baader 12:00pm Lunch at Jadunath Bhavan Mu- Meeting Point: Sea-front opposite Soona Mahal, seum and Resource Center (JBMRC)/ Cen- 143 Marine Drive, Mumbai tre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) 9:30am Walking Tour along UNESCO World Heritage Victorian 1:30–5:00pm Tour Gothic and Art Deco buildings of Victoria Memorial Hall with Tapati Guha- Mumbai Thakurta (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, with Mustansir Dalvi (Sir JJ school of Architecture, Calcutta) Mumbai) 12:00pm Lunch at CSMVS Visitor Centre Tuesday, Nov 26 1:00pm Gallery Walk through CSMVS 9:15am Meeting at JBMRC with a curator of the ongoing special exhibition ‘India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rem- brandt’ 9:30–10:00am Preliminaries Welcome adress by Rosinka Chaudhuri 2:00pm Tea and Coffee Break (Director, CSSSC) Brief introduction to the symposium by Nachiket Chanchani 2:15pm Talk Introduction of all participants, panel chairs, by Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Director General, and discussants CSMVS) on the making of the ‘India and the World’ exhibition (2018) and the current special 10:00–11:15am exhibition followed by a Q+A session Symposium Panel 1 3:30pm Tea and Coffee Break Natasha Kimmet (Universität Wien) Buddhist Clay Sculpture Production in the Shahi Kingdoms 4:00pm Conversation with artists Geive Patel and Anju Dodiya on their Joeeta Pal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New work and its worldly affiliations Delhi) The Afterlife of Kanheri: The Multiple Participants in an Extended Mortuary Tradition 6 Panel Chair and Discussant: 3:00–4:15pm Hannah Baader (Forum Transregionale Stu- Symposium Panel 4 dien/ KHI Florenz – MPI ) Mohit Manohar (Yale University, New Haven) Making and Remaking the Tomb of Sher Shah Suri 11:15–11:30am Tea and Coffee Break in British India 11:30–12:45pm Pimmanus Wibulsilp (Chulalongkorn Univer- Symposium Panel 2 sity, Bangkok) The Majestic Red Building That Burned Down: Ross Bernhaut (University of Michigan, Ann Reconsidering the Indo-Anglo Cultural Encounters Arbor) and Exchanges in the Late Eighteenth-Century The Making and Remaking of the Jain Rock-Cut Nawabi Karnatak Through the History of the Che- Sculptures at Gwalior: Expressions in Text, Image, pauk Palace and Stone Panel Chair and Discussant: Parul Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Nachiket Chanchani (University of Michigan, Delhi) Ann Arbor) Framing Reality: Photo-Mimetic Portraiture in the Windsor Castle Ishqnama Illustrated Manuscript 4:15–4:30pm Tea and Coffee Break Panel Chair and Discussant: Sanjoy Mallik (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan) 4:30–5:45pm Symposium Panel 5 12:45–1:45pm Lunch Nuncho Grancho (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) 1:45–3:00pm Asia on the Move: Two-Way Processes, Data and Symposium Panel 3 Legacy of Architectural History from Former Portu- Mrinalini Sil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New guese Colonial Territories in India Delhi) Collection and Commission: Formation of the Sarojini Lewis
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