Research Seminars

Modernities in South Asian Art

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
5.30pm, Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London
Professor Partha Mitter (University of Sussex)
Emergence of Indian Modernism in the 1920s'

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
5.30pm, Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London

Grant Watson (Senior Curator, Iniva)
Title to be advised

Tuesday 24 May 2011
5.30pm, Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London

Dr Amna Malik (Slade School of Fine Art, University College London)
Title to be advised

Two opposing paradigms, the eurocentric and the planetary, characterise the question of modernity. The seminar group 'Modernities in South Asia' will discuss issues around modernity and modernism in the context of South Asian art and architecture. The forum will give academics, researchers and curators working in this field, the opportunity to discuss their research and generate a debate around the temporalities and spaces of modernism. In order to orient and inform non-specialist participants, a brief reading list with key texts, will be emailed out before the seminar.

The seminars usually take place once a term, on Tuesday evenings at 5.30pm in the Research Forum, unless otherwise stated. The papers, and formal discussion, are followed by informal discussion over a glass of wine.

Open to all, free admission

Organised by Emilia Terracciano with Professor Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)