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Edinburgh College of Art6–9 November 2019

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ACSAA XIX, 6 – 9 NOVEMBER, 2019

NOVEMBER 6, 7 & 9, 2019

EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART (ECA) 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF

(Vehicle access from Lady Lawson Street)

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND AUDITORIUM Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF

(Access from Lothian Street only)

Programme

Wednesday, 6 November 4

Thursday, 7 November 5

Friday, 8 November 8

Saturday, 9 November 11

Sunday, 10 November 13

Maps 14-15

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WelcomeAs the co-host (with Cathy) of ACSAA I, I welcome you to ACSAA XIX.

Little could we have imagined then a symposium that might persist for 38

years, one that is now embarking on the first ACSAA venue outside North

America. I extend special thanks to Yuthika and everyone else – speakers

included – who have made this symposium possible. I look forward to being

a spectator and auditor at a conference that has become ever more exciting

as our colleagues have pushed our parts of the discipline in ways that we

could not have imagined in 1981.

Rick Asher

It is a pleasure to welcome colleagues to Edinburgh for this first iteration of

ACSAA outside North America. The University of Edinburgh, like other

institutions in the city, has enjoyed a long-standing and productive relationship

with South Asia and this symposium provides an excellent opportunity to

showcase and celebrate the University’s historic links to the sub-continent.

We are grateful for the support provided by the School of the History of Art,

Edinburgh College of Art and the School of Social and Political Science.

We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Alwaleed Centre for

the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, Centre for South Asian Studies,

Dallapiccola Foundation, BASAS and University of Edinburgh research support

among others. Our colleagues Friederike Voigt at National Museum of Scotland

and Anne Buddle at the National Galleries Scotland have engaged closely with

symposium planning at their end.

Our enthusiastic body of student volunteers will be undertaking many

organizational tasks and ensuring the smooth running of the symposium –

sincere thanks to them.

This symposium owes much to the support and enthusiasm of Lotte Hoek and

Ed Hollis, who have taken on a large share of the responsibilities for this event

despite their busy schedules and provided valuable guidance throughout. Our

shared interests in the scholarship of visual, built and material culture of South

Asia is reflected in the newly formed research cluster CHITrA focusing on

connective histories that explore new thematic and interdisciplinary approaches.

Last but not least, we are incredibly grateful to colleagues as presenters or

listeners who will be attending the symposium – we look forward to a

stimulating few days with you!

Yuthika Sharma, Chair, ACSAA XIX Edinburgh Scientific Committee: Lotte Hoek, Ed Hollis, Yuthika Sharma

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Wednesday, 6 November

Field trip to Broomhall House 1.30pm – 5.30pm

Departure Point: Gather at the Main Entrance, ECA

Field Trip and walkthrough of Broomhall with Lord [Charles] Bruce.

Meet and greet for arrivals 6pm onwards

ECA Ante Room, L.06, North-East Studio Building, ECA

An informal gathering of participants arriving for the symposium. Proceed to Boardroom.

Heritage roundtable 6.30pm – 8.30pm

ECA Board Room, L.05, North-East Studio Building, ECA

Heritage and memory: the future of Scottish built culture in South Asia

Joint ChairsEdward Hollis, Edinburgh College of Art Kamalika Bose, Heritage Synergies, India

ParticipantsVikas Dilawari, conservation architect, MumbaiBashabi Fraser, Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies; Edinburgh-NapierHemonta Mondal and Suvojit Chatterjee, representing Kazi Nazrul University Asansol and the Asansol Heritage GroupAnne Buddle, National Galleries ScotlandJames Simpson OBE, Asia-Scotland Trust

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Thursday, 7 November

West Court Lecture Theatre and Sculpture Court, ECA Main Building

Registrations 8.30am

Sculpture Court, ECA Main Building

Opening Remarks 8.45am

West Court Lecture Theatre

Panel 2 9am – 10.30am

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)

1. On the Maṇḍalic Structure of Buddhist Architecture in Medieval Bihar and Bengal: Revisitations and ReconsiderationsNicolas Morrissey (University of Georgia)

2. Modern Jain Temples to the Nine PlanetsEllen Gough (Emory University)

3. Layered Maṇḍalic Cosmologies in Himalayan Buddhist ShrinesEric Huntington (Stanford University)

4. Temple Conservation: Jīrṇoddhāra and AnukarmanLibbie Mills (University of Toronto)

Tea Break 10.30am – 10.50am

Panel 3 10.50am – 12.20pm

The Home and The World: The Domestic Interior in South Asia and BeyondChair: Heeryoon Shin (Vanderbilt University)

1. Home and the World/ Home as the World: the nalukettu Residence in the Creation of Kerala IdentityMary Beth Heston (College of Charleston)

2. Beyond Public-Private Divisions: The Interior Life of an Indian Zenana Nandini Thilak (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies)

3. Her Lady’s Room: Portrait of a Lady within Patriarchal/Colonial Space Hawon Ku (Seoul National University)

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4. “The Art of Living:” Domestic Space, Cultural Regeneration, and Ananda and Ethel Coomaraswamy’s Norman ChapelAntonia Behan (Bard Graduate Centre)

Lunchtime activities 12.20pm – 2pm

Lunch will be provided on premises, delegates to remain on site

PhD Poster Tables or “Research in Progress”Publishers and Special Interest Tables

Panel 4 2pm – 3.30pm

Strategic EmbodimentsChairs: Pamela N. Corey (SOAS, University of London), Ashley Thompson (SOAS, University of London)

1. Henri Parmentier’s Buddhist IconoclasmKevin Chua (Texas Tech University)

2. Artful ambiguities in Angkor’s literary and material culture: locating Śrī in inscriptions and art Soumya James (Independent)

3. Shapes of Water: Confronting Sculptural Reliefs at MamallapuramDivya Kumar Dumas (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania)

4. Dismembering and remembering: Danh Vo’s Fragmented Historical Bodies and Embodiments of HistoryNora Taylor (School of the Arts Institute Chicago)

Tea break 3.30pm – 3.50pm

Panel 5 3.50pm – 5.20pm

Visualizing Human-Animal Relations in the Indian Ocean World Chairs: Tamara I. Sears (Rutgers University), Sugata Ray (University of Berkeley)

1. From Ganga’s Makara to the Ghariyal’s Last Stand: Confronting Animal Extinctions through a Transhistorical LensTamara Sears, (Rutgers University)

2. Picture-Rhythms (Tala-Mala) of Termite Hills to a Deer’s Swiftness of Thought Holly Shaffer (Brown University)

3. The Bengali artist HaludarMalini Roy (The British Library)

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Break 5.20pm – 6pm

Keynote Lecture 6pm – 7.30pm

West Court Lecture Theatre

Remarks by: Heather Pulliam (Head of History of Art, ECA)

“To the Divine Through the Path of Beauty: An Exploration”Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University)

Chaired by: Adam Hardy (Welsh School of Architecture)

Drinks reception 7.30pm – 8.45pm

ECA Sculpture Court

Remarks by: ACSAA Committee

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Friday, 8 November

Auditorium, National Museum Scotland


Ante Space, Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland

Panel 6 8.45am – 10.25am

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)

1. Far from Home: A Study of the Domestic Jain Shrine at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and Comparative Shrines in IndiaKimberly Masteller (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) and Kate Garland (NAM)

2. Lives of a Ghar Derasar: A Jain Domestic Shrine in the Victoria and Albert MuseumNick Barnard (V&A Museum) and Lucia Burgio (V&A Museum)

3. Preserving and Learning from Cultural Heritage: Case Studies in Conservation from the CSMVS, MumbaiAnupam Sah, (CSMVS Museum)

4. Holy splendour for a pious home – a Jain house temple in the Asian Art Museum BerlinMartina Stoye (Asian Art Museum, Berlin)

5. Ghar Derasars in Gujarat: Historical, Architectural and Socio-religious Context Khushi Shah (CEPT, Gujarat)

Tea Break 10.25am – 10.45am

Panel 7 10.50am – 12.20pm

Adorned: Studies in Dress and Textiles Chair: Siddhartha V. Shah (Peabody Essex Museum)

1. Checks, Stripes and Spots: Indian Handkerchiefs in Global Trade and FashionAvalon Fotheringham (Victoria & Albert Museum)

2. Embroidering on Widowhood in Colonial BengalPika Ghosh (Haverford College)

3. Imperial Styling: Indian and Irish Contributions to Queen Mary’s Coronation WardrobeEmily Hannam (The Royal Library, Windsor)

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4. Being Modern: Fashionable Dress in 20th Century India from the V&A CollectionDivia Patel (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Lunchtime activities 12.15pm – 2pm

1. National Galleries Scotland Study Sessions

Group 1: Print Room, Belford RoadGroup 2: SNPG Print Room, Queen StreetWalk to Chambers Street through internal glass doors or circle around Lothian Streer through West College Street (See Appendix).TAXIS departing from NMS front entrance on Chambers Street.

2. University of Edinburgh Special Collections

Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor, Main Library, George Square, EH8 9LJSign up as a visitor at reception and take elevator to 6th FloorWALK-IN between 12pm – 1.50pm only

Afternoon keynote 2.05pm – 3.15pm

Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland

“Slaves of Fashion: New works by the Singh Twins” Revealing Hidden Histories and Decolonising Collections Through Contemporary ArtThe Singh Twins

Chaired by: Sue Stronge (V&A Museum)

Break 3.15pm – 3.30pm

Panel 8 3.30pm – 5pm

Collecting South and South East Asia at the British Museum Chairs: Friederike Voigt (National Museum Scotland), Sushma Jansari (The British Museum)

1. Was Raffles an early anthropologist? Views from JavaAlexandra Green (British Museum)

2. The Global and the National: South Asian Collectors at the British MuseumKajal Meghani, (University of Brighton/British Museum)

3. Temple renovation and the ‘discovery’ of the Cholas in Madras PresidencyCrispin Branfoot (SOAS)

Tea Break 5pm – 5.30pm

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Panel 9 5.30pm – 7pm

Beyond the Imperial Frontier: Afghanistan in British Colonial Photography Chair: Alka Patel (UC Irvine); Discussant: Deborah Stein (California College of Arts)

1. Qandahar: A Depictive HistoryAlka Patel (University of California, Irvine)

2. The Lie of the Land: Kandahar 1880-81John Falconer (Independent, ex-British Library)

3. Visual Materials as Sources in Afghanistan HistoriographyJawan Shir Rasikh (University of Pennsylvania)

4. British excavations at Old QandaharWarwick Ball (Independent Archaeologist)

Roundtable 10 7.10pm – 8.30pm

Living Archives: Arts, Bodies, and Historiographies in South Asia Joint Chairs: Sanjukta Sunderason (Leiden University) and Aditi Chandra (University of California, Merced)

Discussant: Hammad Nassar (Curator, Writer, Researcher, and Senior Research Fellow Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

ParticipantsDr. Radha Kapuria (Leverhulme ECR Fellow, University of Sheffield) Evidence for the ephemeral: Music and Dance in colonial Punjab

Rahaab Allana (Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, Delhi)Positioning an Image Archive

Dr. Uditi Sen (University of Nottingham) Everyday Archives of Partition: Beyond Narratives of Loss

Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Independent)The 1947 Partition Archive

End of day

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Saturday, 9 November

West Court Lecture Theatre, Main Building, ECA


Sculpture Court, ECA Main Building

Panel 11 8.45am – 10.15am

Funerary Architecture in South Asia Chairs: Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune, India) and Mohit Manohar (Yale)

1. Ornate Commemorations: Funerary Monuments for Queens in Sultanate GujaratRiyaz Latif (FLAME University, Pune, India)

2. Beyond Faith After Death: The Ahmadnagar Group of Funerary MonumentsPushkar Sohoni (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune)

3. The Case of the Missing Chhatri: Colonial “Restoration” of the Tomb of Sher Shah Suri in SasaramMohit Manohar (Yale University)

4. Documents of Life and Death: Constructing Identities at the Samma Tombs of Makli Necropolis in SindhMunazzah Akhtar and Rabia Qureshi (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Break 10.15am – 10.45am

Panel 12 10.50am – 12.20pm

Word and Image in South Asia Chair: Yuthika Sharma (University of Edinburgh)

1. Didactic Images of Wonder: An Illustrated Dictionary made in Fifteenth-Century Mandu, the Miftāḥ al-Fużalā of Shadiyabadi (British Library Or 3299)Vivek Gupta (SOAS)

2. A Venetian ‘quack doctor’ and his fellow painters: Nicolo Manucci’s artistic patronage in India (1680-1730)Gianni Dubbini (Italy)

3. The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Gosainkund Scroll: A Phenomenological ApproachNeeraja Poddar (City Palace Museum, Udaipur and Oxford)

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4. The Lahore Museum and Its Sikh Artefacts: A Probe into Facts and Fiction Nadhra Khan, (Lahore University of Management Sciences)

4. Between Ram Raj and British Raj: Tradition and Transformation in Jaipur Court Painting, ca. 1835-1880 Shivani Sud (UC Berkeley)

Lunchtime activities 12.15pm – 1.45pm

ACSAA Roundtable Business Meeting

Parallel activity: Short Walking Tour of Edinburgh I

With Roger Jeffery and Hauke Wiebe, (£5 per person), tour lasts 60 minutes

Panel 13 1.45pm – 3.15pm

Artistic Directions in 19th century Calcutta Chair: Bashabi Fraser (Edinburgh Napier and Director, Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies)

1. Forging a new art history: Ishwari Prasad and the Company Shaili/ Kalam at the Calcutta School of ArtYuthika Sharma (University of Edinburgh) and Holly Shaffer (Brown University)

2. Place-Work-Folk & Other Problems: the Geddeses in the Santiniketan-Sriniketan experimentSria Chatterjee, (Princeton University)

3. Art History and its Dis(contents): A Reassessment of the Underestimated Creative Genius of Select Women Painters of the Tagore FamilyShilpi Das (KNU, India)

4. Tagore, Heights of Fancy: Mountains & National ImaginingsZehra Jumabhoy (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Tea Break 3.15pm – 3.45pm

Panel 14 3.45pm – 5.15pm

Magicality, Materiality, Temporality Chairs: Rebecca Brown (Johns Hopkins University), Atreyee Gupta (University of California, Berkeley)

1. Clock-wearing Buraqs, Composite Time and the Pathosformel of Husayn in AcehSimon Soon (University of Malaya)

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2. “To say that we don’t know with certainty where we are going is a proof of our lucidity:” Jagdish Swaminathan, Octavio Paz, and the Group 1890.Atreyee Gupta (University of California, Berkeley)

3. Animating the Image: Film Appreciation and the Art Film in 1970s DhakaLotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)

4. Gestures toward the Legible: Astrology, Mathematics, and Writing in KCS Paniker’s PaintingRebecca M. Brown (Johns Hopkins University)

Break 5.15pm to 5.45pm

South Asian Studies Keynote 5.45pm – 7pm

West Court Lecture Theatre, ECA

“Calligraphic Abstraction: Anwar Jalal Shemza”Iftikhar Dadi

Chaired by: Lotte Hoek

Closing reception & thank yous 7pm – 8.30pm

Offical close of symposium

Sunday, 10 November 10.30am

Morning Walking Tour of Edinburgh II [Long Walking Tour]

Departure Point: Junction of Castle Terrace and Lothian Road (Outside Wagamama)1 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2DP£5 per person

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Edinburgh College of Art6–9 November 2019

HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin TalalCentre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World

Centre for South Asian StudiesSchool of Social and Political Science The Alwaleed Centre