CHITrA

Research Cluster: Art and Visual Culture of South Asia: Connecting Histories of Indian and Trans-regional Art. Led by Yuthika Sharma.

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A great session on geoaesthetics and art history last week. Looking forward to the next meeting in May on queer visual culture. Have a restful April CHITrA folks!

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CHITrA Reading Group: A brilliant discussion on Pollock's formulation of the Cosmopolitan Vernacular and questions of aesthetics, power and precolonial modernity.

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Jan 14: We are off to a great start in 2021. @CSASedinburgh and @ArtsofSouthAsia were delighted to co-host a book forum with Sanjukta Sundaresan to discuss her book Partisan Aesthetics.

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CHITrA Reading Group: A great end to 2020 with a stimulating discussion on sexuality in South Asia using Chatterjee’s survey of premodern, colonial and postcolonial perspectives. Coming up...a special CHITrA edition on Sunderason’s Partisan Aesthetics in January 2021!

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CHITrA Reading Group: A great discussion led by @ClaireB01098200 on global history of knowledge construction looking at the work of Raj and Pratt on early modern travel literature and scientific documentation, and the shaping of a post cold war idea of Science. Until next time!

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...@MediaAutomatiek reading Jaikumar on Jean Renoir's 'The River' was a treat!

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The CHITrA reading group is off to a great start!
The research cluster brings together faculty and doctoral students working on any aspect of South Asian culture at UoE. Our (virtual) group read about 1950s film culture. Looking forward to the next one!

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The CHITrA reading group is off to a great start!
The research cluster brings together faculty and doctoral students working on any aspect of South Asian culture at UoE. Our (virtual) group read about 1950s film culture. Looking forward to the next one!

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In fond memory of
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The fun continues... Masterclass on Modern and Contemporary painting with Iftikhar Dadi.

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....thanks also to @CSASedinburgh, @alwaleed_centre, @EdinburghUP @NatGalleriesSco @NtlMuseumsScot for supporting us!
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Thank you to all for supporting @acsaaus in Edinburgh. Our activities, teas and evening receptions supported by History of Art, Ed Global @AmritaTina and @BASAS_SAS were so much fun!

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A big thanks to our volunteers 😍 we could not have had
@acsaaus in Edinburgh without you!!
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Thank you to all for supporting @acsaaus in Edinburgh. Our activities, teas and evening receptions supported by History of Art, Ed Global @AmritaTina and @BASAS_SAS were so much fun!

#ACSAA2019EDINBURGH

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The beautifully designed Forgotten Masters catalogue arrived on my desk recently! Looking forward to reading the articles by leading experts in the field #naturalhistory #indianart edited and the brainchild of @DalrympleWill

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Asansol: writing the unfinished biography of a Raj Railway Town. Presented by Suvojit Chatterjee, Hemonta Mondal, Asansol Heritage Group.

Room 3.23 Evolution House, between 1630-1800 on Tuesday 12th November.

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Seal dated 1278/1861 of #Urdu and #Persian #poet Mīrzā Ghālib or Najm al-Dawlah Dabīr al-Mulk Asad Allāh Khān Niẓām Jang (d. 3 Z̲ī al-Qaʿdah 1285/15 February 1869) shown in commemorative #Indian stamp (thanks @RichardScottMo3), also found in his letters @BLAsia_Africa Or 12035/2

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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, opening at the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, Mayfair 4th Dec

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This morning Vivek Gupta presents his research on the Miftah al-Fuzala of Shadiyabadi, BL Or 3299 at #ACSAA Edinburgh @_nainsukh #BLPersian #islamicmanuscripts #mandu

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Closing Keynote: Calligraphic Abstraction: Anwar Jalal Shemza Iftikhar Dadi, chaired by Lotte Hoek
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Magicality, materiality, temporality
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