Pragya Sharma

AHRC Technē Doctoral Researcher, University of Brighton | Researching Domestic Crafts in India: Hand-knitting, Crochet, Lace-making, Needlework

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

I am teaching on this course once again, the coming autumn. Definitely recommend this for a wholesome experience of the world of hand knitting.

I will be discussing some fascinating stories of hand knitting from India!

#india #knitting #handknitting

https://t.co/oFrNHSx79l

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

📣CFP Alert! I will be co-organising an in-person symposium 'Thinking Through Heirlooms' on the 6th of Nov, 2026, at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton.

Deadline for proposal: 3rd July 2026

Full link to the CFP is in the bio!

https://t.co/NMjYejccfE

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

@Ta_ra_das Hi Tara, I know someone who has experience with this. Unable to message you, please DM.

[Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner]

Back on this curséd app to say that the Royal School of Needlework (@RoyalNeedlework) is hosting its first academic conference, in conjunction with @pasoldfund! Here’s the call for papers for “Stitched Together,” which will be held on 21-22 August. Please share!

[UK Hand Knitting @UKHKA]

Who else has suddenly looked round and found this seating arrangement? It sneaks up on you.

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

What is always on my mind!

#knitting #wool

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

📣 I am looking for India-based participants to interview in person, for my PhD project. If you know someone, please help me connect or circulate in your networks!

More details in the poster below ⬇️

#knitting #India #crochet

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

I will be teaching a 4-week online course 'Needlework & Home Building' with @VitalThoughtOrg March 4-28. We’ll untangle the complexities between the crafts of hand-knitting & crochet and how they intersect with ideas of domesticity, labour & housework.

https://t.co/ZgjxCKyze3

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

If people claim to be colonised, & you can't see it, perhaps you need to examine your own lenses rather than casting doubts on their claims. The closer you are to the source of power, the harder it is to see those who are situated at its margins.

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

📢📚 Don’t miss the final #DECRReadingGroup session! We’ll discuss @ParisSpiesGans’s 'Degendering Greatness in Art Historical Narratives: Women Artists and the Canons We Create' —and the author will join us!

📅 Dec. 5, 6 PM GMT (online)
🔗 Register : https://t.co/pHXXyZHPQP

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

📚 Join us for our 4th #DECRReadingGroup session to discuss Charmaine Nelson’s introductory chapter in The Color of Stone, "Toward a Black Feminist Art History."

📅 Thu, Nov 21, 6 PM GMT (online)
🔗 Register: https://t.co/pHXXyZHPQP

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

📚 Join us for our 3rd #DECRReadingGroup session, as we discuss Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel's 'Digital Humanities for a Spatial, Global and Social History of Art' and explore digital practices and methods in art history!

📅Thu. 7 Nov, 6pm GMT (online)
👉Info: https://t.co/SAUvMtZ06H

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

Don't miss out, book your ticket for this Thursday!

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

Stacking finished reads on a Saturday morning and feeling the research taking an exciting shape!

#domesticcrafts #domesticity

[DATS @DATSnetwork]

We are happy to announce our keynote speaker for this year’s DATS conference ‘Power and Representation’ will be Andrew Ibi, curator of The Missing Thread exhibition (Somerset House 2023-2024). You can find more details about the programme and tickets below
https://t.co/kCrMubCt71

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

📚 The DECR Reading Group is back! Join us for the first autumn session as we discuss Donna Haraway’s “Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936.”
📍Thurs. 26 Sept., 6 pm GMT (online)
👉more info : https://t.co/SAUvMtZ06H
#DECRReadingGroup

[Design History Society @SoDesignHistory]

Session 3 is 9.15-10.30am today
#dhs2024 #dhsbordercontrol
Panel 9 Home Comforts?
Chair @DrJKelly1
Speakers @HazelCowie @Megan_Brien & @DanieljStilwell
Panel 10: Textiles and the Body
Chair: @jane_mty
Speakers: Laurence Wen-Yu Li, Pam Brook and @prags57

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

In the hot-humid summer of Bengal, the containments can be unbearably difficult to work in, but this too is required for the starch on warp to dry, sooner rather than later, to achieve a distinct glaze on the surface – a distinguishing feature of the taant sari.

#weavers #india

[Pragya Sharma @prags57]

The metal tenements that dot the landscape of Nadia in Bengal in East India, reflect the transient nature of the weavers’ lives. Although the area is relatively less flood-prone, the inhabitants, who were weaver-migrants from Bangladesh are known to have carried this skill.

[The Centre for Design History @CDH_Brighton]

OPEN CALL 📣 We are inviting applications for funded International Visiting Research Fellow, Post-doc Visiting Research Fellow and @Design_Archives/ @CDH_Brighton International Visiting Research Fellow.

Applications for all close at 5pm GMT on Thursday 19 September 2024