SYMPOSIUM
9:30 I N T R O D U C T I O N S Allan deSouza, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 M O B I L I T Y 
Chair: Ramón De Santiago, UC Berkeley
Deborah Stein, Senior Lecturer at California College of Arts, Swings, Ships, and Camel Motels: When 15th-century Architecture is Thought in Mandu, Malwa
Talinn Grigor, University of California, Davis, Ancient Iran in Bombay
Padma Maitland, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Gandhi Superstar
Usha Iyer, Stanford University, Histories of the Ephemeral: Producing a Narrative of Film Dance through Song Booklets
Asma Kazmi, University of California, Berkeley, Cranes and Cube and Some Other Works
11:00 Coffee Break  
11:30 D W E L L I N G 
Chair: Melissa CarlsonUC Berkeley
Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced, Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State through Delhi’s Islamic Architecture
Pallavi Sharma, California College of the Arts, A Traveling Tale: My Recent body of Work
Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum, The Art of Sitting: Re-looking at Indian Paintings
Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker, Mills College, Home is a Foreign Place
Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley, Ecoaesthetics: On how to Live with Sentient Plants
12:30 Lunch Break  
1:30 F U T U R I T Y
Chair: Leena JoshiUC Berkeley
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Artist, Heterosexual Hubris
Jisha Menon, Stanford University, Building Bangalore, and the Poetics of Dwelling in Sheela Gowda’s Artworks
Shalini Agrawal, California College of the Arts; Pathways to Equity, Diversity and Equity in Community-based Practice
Debashish Banerji, California Institute of Integral Studies, Hoppe's India, 1929: Colonialism and Modernity through Photographs
Sita K. Bhaumik, California College of the Arts, The Places Where the Answers Were
Atreyee GuptaAtreyee Gupta, University of California, Berkeley, Untitled
2:30 Coffee Break  
3:00 C U R A T I N G
Chair: Thomas OommenUC Berkeley

 

Forrest McGill, Asian Art Museum, Cosmic and Earthly Dance in the Arts of India and Its Neighbors
Cho Rao, Independent Art & Museum Consultant, Emerging Art Center: Delhi
Karin G. Oen, Asian Art Museum, Forming and Reforming: Contemporary Art at the Asian
John Zarobell, University of San Francisco, Emerging Megacities in South Asia
Kathy Zarur, California College of the Arts, About Place
4:00 Reception  
BOOK TALK
5:00 Allan deSouza: How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change 
Moderator: Sugata RayUC Berkeley
Respondent: Asma Kazmi, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Atreyee Gupta, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley