PROGRAMME
ACTIVITIES
Please find below links to the activities [to sign up, send an email to acsaa2019@gmail.com, last few spaces remaining].
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- British Library Viewing Sessions [PDF] Nov 4, 2019
- Note About British Library Visit on November 4
- Buddhism Exhibition and tour with Exhibition Curator Jana Igunma at 11.00.Participants should book their tickets online: https://www.bl.uk/events/buddhism (Cost is £12.60) for the 11am slot.
Please meet in the Front Entrance Hall- front of the bookshop next to the entrance to the exhibition.
- Visit to the Print Room with Malini Roy and Cam Sharp-Jones
- 1 session at 14.00-15.30. Capped at 15 participants.The participants should leave all bags and coats in the locker rooms (lower ground floor or in the cloakroom). Please meet in the Front Entrance Hall.
PANELS AND SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER 6
- Field Trip to Broomhall House with Lord (Charles) Bruce Afternoon, 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
- Departure Point: Gather at the Main Entrance, Edinburgh College of Art (access from Lady Lawson Street) at 1:30 PM
- Return to ECA, Proceed to Welcome Reception and Heritage Roundtable
- Meet and Greet for Arrivals 6 PM onwards ECA Ante Room, L.06, North-East Studio Building, ECA
- An informal gathering of participants arriving for the symposium.
- Evening 18.30-20:30
- Panel I. [Roundtable] Heritage and memory: the future of Scottish built culture in South Asia
- Chairs, Edward Hollis (ECA, Edinburgh), Kamalika Bose (Heritage Synergies, India)
- ECA Board Room, L.05, North-East Studio Building, ECA
NOVEMBER 7
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- West Court Lecture Theatre and Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art Main Building (Enter from Lady Lawson Street), 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF
- REGISTRATION AND OPENING REMARKS: 8:30 AM
- II. Ideation and Delineation of Sacred Space: New Perspectives on Architecture and Ritual in South Asia and the Himalayas from the Medieval to the Modern Period.
- Chairs, Nicolas Morrissey (University of Georgia), Jinah Kim, (Harvard University)
- TEA BREAK
- III. The Home and The World: The Domestic Interior in South Asia and Beyond
- Chair, Heeryoon Shin (Vanderbilt University)
- 12:20-2:00 PM LUNCHTIME ACTIVITIES
- PhD Poster Tables/ “Research in Progress”
- Publishers and Special Interest Tables
- IV.Strategic Embodiments
- Chairs, Pamela N. Corey (SOAS University of London), Ashley Thompson (SOAS University of London)
- TEA BREAK
- V. Visualizing Human-Animal Relations in the Indian Ocean World
- Chairs, Tamara I. Sears (Rutgers University), Sugata Ray (University of Berkeley)
- 18:00-19:30 OPENING KEYNOTE (West Court Lecture Theatre)
- Remarks by Heather Pulliam (Head of History of Art, ECA)
- Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University), Chaired by Adam Hardy (Welsh School of Architecture)
- To the Divine Through the Path of Beauty: An Exploration
- Followed by Drinks Reception @ ECA SCULPTURE COURT
NOVEMBER 8
- Auditorium and Ante Space, NATIONAL MUSEUM SCOTLAND [Access only from Lothian Street]
- REGISTRATION: 8:30 AM
- VI. Cultural Heritage in the City and in the Museum: Art Historical and Conservation Analysis of Architectural Shrines and Ritual Objects in Museum Collections
- Chair, Kimberley Masteller (Nelson Atkins Museum)
- TEA BREAK
- VII. Adorned: Studies in Dress and Textiles
- Chair, Siddhartha Shah (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
- 12:15 – 14:10 LUNCHTIME ACTIVITIES
- National Galleries Scotland Study Sessions
- Walk to Chambers Street through internal glass doors or circle around (Lothian St through West College Street)
Taxis departing from NMS front entrance on Chambers St.
- Group 1: Print Room, Belford Road
- Group 2: SNPG Print Room, Queen Street
- Return to NMS, Proceed to Keynote in Auditorium
- 14:15-15:20 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE (Auditorium, National Museum Scotland)
- The Singh Twins, , Chaired by Sue Stronge, V&A Museum
- “Slaves of Fashion: New works by the Singh Twins”Revealing Hidden Histories and Decolonising Collections Through Contemporary Art
- BREAK
- VIII.Collecting South and South East Asia at the British Museum
- Chairs, Friederike Voigt, (National Museum Scotland), Sushma Jansari (British Museum)
- TEA BREAK
- IX. Beyond the Imperial Frontier: Afghanistan in British Colonial Photography
- Chair, Alka Patel (University of California, Irvine); Discussant, Deborah Stein (CCA)
- BREAK
- X. [Roundtable] Living Archives: Arts, Bodies, and Historiographies in South Asia
- Chairs, Sanjukta Sunderason, (Leiden University), Aditi Chandra (University of California, Merced)
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NOVEMBER 9
- West Court Lecture Theatre and Sculpture Court, ECA Main Building (Enter from Lady Lawson Street) 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH 3 9DF
- REGISTRATION: 8:30 AM
- XI. Funerary Architecture in South Asia
- Chairs, Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune, India), Mohit Manohar (Yale University)
- TEA BREAK
- XII. Word and Image
- Chair, Yuthika Sharma (University of Edinburgh)
- 12:15 – 13:45 LUNCHTIME ACTIVITIES
- ACSAA ROUNDTABLE BUSINESS MEETING
- Parallel activity: Short Walking Tour of Edinburgh I, with Roger Jeffery and Hauke Wiebe (£5 per person)
- XIII. Artistic Directions in 19th century Calcutta
- Chair, Bashabi Fraser (Edinburgh Napier, Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies)
- TEA BREAK
- XIV. Magicality, Materiality, Temporality
- Chairs, Rebecca Brown (John Hopkins University), Atreyee Gupta (University of California, Berkeley)
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- 17:45-19:00 CLOSING KEYNOTE (West Court Lecture Theatre)
- Iftikar Dadi (Cornell University), Chaired by Lotte Hoek
- “Calligraphic Abstraction: Anwar Jalal Shemza”
- 19:00-20:30 South Asian Studies Reception [Evening Reception – Speeches]
- OFFICIAL CLOSE OF SYMPOSIUM
NOVEMBER 10
- Morning Walking Tour of Edinburgh II [Long Walking Tour] with Roger Jeffery and Hauke Wiebe
- “New Town Tour”: Departure Point: Junction of Castle Terrace and Lothian Road (Outside Wagamama)
- £5 per person