The annual seminar series ‘Visual Constructions of South Asia’ launched in 2014 at the University of Cambridge and hosted by the Centre of South Asian Studies continues in Easter term 2015 with talks by Nicholas Evans, Imma Ramos, Cleo Roberts and Teresa Segura-Garcia.
The series is part of the ‘Visual Language and South Asian History Program' led by Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Clare Hall College) and aims to introduce Cambridge under-/postgraduate students, academic staff, researchers at different career stages, and visiting scholars to the ways in which visual research methods support the development of new perspectives on South Asian history and culture.
Seminars take place fortnightly on Mondays, 4:00-6:00pm, in S2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Rd., CB3 9DT. Please see below the program for Easter 2015:
27 April: Death and sanitation: Imperial representations of the Ganges (Cleo Roberts)
11 May: Indian plague maps and the colonial urban (Nicholas Evans)
25 May: The lens and the maharaja: The photographic remaking of Indian kingship in the late colonial period (Teresa Segura-Garcia)
8 June: Reviving Sati’s corpse: the invocation of the Shakti Pithas in modern and contemporary politics (Imma Ramos)
For further information about the seminar series please see http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50675.
All welcome
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