| This project explored the historical significance of South Asian artistic practices and the complex ways they helped shape local and transregional cultures. |
Interwoven lays the foundations of a new paradigm for understanding movement, practice, materiality, and embodiment as constituting factors of social relations across long temporal arcs and geographic itineraries unbounded by national borders in the Indian Ocean region. The project builds upon and extends a strong base of interdisciplinary collaborations that the participants, together with colleagues from North America, Europe, and South Asia, have developed over the past three years in workshops at the University of Chicago and in South Asia. Those workshops, on sonic and visual culture in South Asia, have called for the integrated and multidisciplinary approach to an expanded field of practices and objects, which will provide the basis for a performance, exhibition, and multimedia publication that establish a new paradigm for understanding the arts in the Indian Ocean region. This expanded field will enable the participants to produce a robust understanding of the historical significance of the diverse artistic practices in the region, and the complex ways they helped shape local and transregional cultures.
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Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College
University of Chicago
Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities in the College; Associate Faculty, Divinity School
University of Chicago
Director of the Digital South Asia Library
University of Chicago
Metadata Librarian and Librarian for Southern Asia and Anthropology
The University of Chicago Library
Laura Ring is a Subject Specialist in South and Southeast Asian Studies and Anthropology. For more information about her work, please visit her staff profile.
Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities; Director of Professional Development
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of Minnesota
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At this lecture, Dipti Khera (NYU) considered the letters that Jain merchants sent to monks between 1400 and 1900.
Nancy Um (Binghamton University) examined two seventeenth-century images of the Red Sea port of Mocha in Yemen.
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This keynote panel drew together two of the finest collections in the world...
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At this lecture, Dipti Khera (NYU) considered the letters that Jain merchants sent to monks between 1400 and 1900.
Nancy Um (Binghamton University) examined two seventeenth-century images of the Red Sea port of Mocha in Yemen.
