| 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
Niall Atkinson’s teaching and scholarship focus on public space, urban history, soundscapes, geography and travel as well as the architecture and urbanism of late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. His research has concerned the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in...
Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities in the College; Associate Faculty, Divinity School
University of Chicago
Phil Bohlman’s teaching and research draw upon diverse methods and perspectives in music scholarship to forge an ethnomusicology built upon foundations in ethnography, history, and performance. He is particularly interested in exploring the interstices between music and religion, music, race,...
Director of the Digital South Asia Library
University of Chicago
James Nye, Director of the Digital South Asia Library and an associate of the Humanities Division, is the retired Bibliographer for Southern Asia. Trained as a classical Indologist with an emphasis on medieval Sanskrit literature, his most recent...
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
The core issue animating her research in India and beyond is music’s power to activate profound religious experiences that in turn shape other identities. I thus explore nationalism in Western Indian Hindu temple performance, gendered translation in Indian Jewish song, diasporic longing in...
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of Minnesota
Anna Seastrand's work broadly addresses the relationships between visual, oral, and written texts in South Asian art, with particular focus on physical and notional landscapes, pilgrimage, and performance. Her book in progress, The Kinesthetic Temple, foregrounds movement as central to...
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Reading list for the Interwoven research project at the Neubauer Collegium
This keynote panel drew together two of the finest collections in the world...
This panel explored performance, visual, and sonic traditions from southeastern India and Southeast Asia across and within their heterogeneous communities. Speakers on this panel addressed aspects...
This roundtable conversation explored cinematography, music, dance, cinemas, and audience reception from the era of silent films through the first decades of talkies. Consideration of film as art...
The scholars on this panel drew together the interwoven themes of architecture, music, photography, and literature. Their work on memory, caste, labor, worship, space, and community addressed...
Join the University of Chicago’s South Asian Music Ensemble for their annual Spring Concert featuring devotional and classical numbers in various South Asian languages punctuated by collaborations...
The Interwoven project draws together an interdisciplinary group of...
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.
All of the complex interlacing of aural order and disorder, harmony and dissonance, noise and silence that characterized the late medieval and Renaissance city pervade the era’s most popular...
Of all the songs that Bene Israel people of western India sing, wedding songs are perhaps the most drenched in emotion and memory. This talk by
Kaley Mason
Assistant Professor of Music, Lewis & Clark College
The people of Southwestern...
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Reading list for the Interwoven research project at the Neubauer Collegium
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
This keynote panel drew together two of the finest collections in the world...
This panel explored performance, visual, and sonic traditions from southeastern India and Southeast Asia across and within their heterogeneous communities. Speakers on this panel addressed aspects...
This roundtable conversation explored cinematography, music, dance, cinemas, and audience reception from the era of silent films through the first decades of talkies. Consideration of film as art...
The scholars on this panel drew together the interwoven themes of architecture, music, photography, and literature. Their work on memory, caste, labor, worship, space, and community addressed...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Join the University of Chicago’s South Asian Music Ensemble for their annual Spring Concert featuring devotional and classical numbers in various South Asian languages punctuated by collaborations...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
The Interwoven project draws together an interdisciplinary group of...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
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.
All of the complex interlacing of aural order and disorder, harmony and dissonance, noise and silence that characterized the late medieval and Renaissance city pervade the era’s most popular...
Of all the songs that Bene Israel people of western India sing, wedding songs are perhaps the most drenched in emotion and memory. This talk by
Kaley Mason
Assistant Professor of Music, Lewis & Clark College
The people of Southwestern...
