This keynote panel drew together two of the finest collections in the world, the Humboldt Forum of Berlin and the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Speakers explored how the collections and their interpretations are themselves interwoven across time and space, across modes of knowledge production, and from the present to the past.

Panelists (Keynotes Discussion)

Niall Atkinson (Introduction/Moderator), Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College, University of Chicago

Philip Bohlman (Moderator), Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Department of Music and the Humanities in the College, University of Chicago

Anna Seastrand (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota

Navina Najat Haidar (Keynote), Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lars-Christian Koch (Keynote), Director of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and Head of Collections for the Humboldt Forum of Berlin

Performance: Peshkaar in Raga Chandrakauns (encore)

Ameera Nimjee, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, School of Music and Asian Studies, University of Puget Sound (kathak dance)

Bertie Kibreah, Programming Coordinator, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago (tabla)

Tomal Hossain, PhD Student in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Chicago (harmonium)

Panelists (Concluding Discussion)

Niall Atkinson (Introduction/Moderator), Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College, University of Chicago

Philip Bohlman (Moderator), Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Department of Music and the Humanities in the College, University of Chicago

James Nye, Bibliographer for Southern Asia, retired, and Associate in the Humanities Division, University of Chicago

Laura Ring, Librarian for Southern Asia and Anthropology, University of Chicago Library

Anna Schultz, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago

Anna Seastrand, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota

This event was presented as part of the capstone series of events for the Interwoven project. The project drew together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners in the arts to lay the foundations of a new paradigm for understanding movement, practice, materiality, and embodiment in a continuum of exchange across long temporal arcs and geographic itineraries unbounded by national borders in the Indian Ocean region. Featuring scholars, musicians, dancers, and curators from South Asia, Europe, and North America, the two-week program consisted of a series of roundtables, keynote lectures, and the screening of a silent film with accompanying live performances. The interactive nature of the capstone events reflected the richness of the interwoven paradigm of understanding, as well as point to the ways the methodologies explored will contribute to future scholarship. The panels were comprised of pre-recorded lectures by individual panelists and synchronous discussions that brought panelists together in real-time. Please be sure to watch the pre-recorded lectures before the live sessions. Visit the Interwoven website to learn more.
This symposium was co-sponsored by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS), the Department of Art History, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.