Past Events
Lectures
- Jason Felch | Chasing Shiva: Investigating the Market in South and Southeast Asian Antiquities (November 03, 2022)
- Supriya Chaudhuri | Modernism, Realism and Catastrophe: Local and Global Aesthetics in Mid-Twentieth Century India (October 17, 2022)
- Dalvir Pannu | Beyond Borders: An Illustrated history of the Sikh shrines in Pakistan (September 13, 2022)
- John Guy | China in India: Porcelain Trade and Attitudes to Collecting in Early Islamic India (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
- Osmund Bopearachchi Gandharan Art Revisited: What is New and What is Next The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture (12/9/2021)
- Usha Iyer | From the Cabaret to the Melodrama of Dance Reform: Corporeal Histories of 1950s-60s Bombay Cinema (3/4/2021)
- The Long Way to Tagore’s Self-discovery as an Artist (2/2/2021)
- When All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Exploring the Intersection of the Folk and the Modern in Postcolonial India (3/3/2020)
- Patrick Flores When Commitments Confuse: Writing and Curating (Around) the Nature of Art History (5/8/2020)
- Salima Hashmi Rumours of Spring: Some Reflections on Pakistani Contemporary Art The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture (9/16/2020)
- Catherine B. Asher The Qutb Complex: India and the Persianate World (4/12/2019)
- Sarah Pinto The Arts of Counter-Ethics (2/8/2019)
- Sandow Birk American Qur'an (10/22/2018)
- Matti Braun Vikram Sarabhai - A Modern Indian Icon (10/13/2018)
- Tapati Guha-Thakurta From Craftsmanship to Commercial Art (9/28/2018) - VIDEO
- Stephanie Schrader Rembrandt and the Mughals (4/30/2018)
- Nadia Samdani, Rajeeb Samdani, & Chitra Ganesh South Asian Art | Past, Present, Future (4/27/18)
- Robert Del Bontà Ragamala Painting (7/8/2017)
- Y.S. Alone Neo-Buddhist Visual Culture (9/8/2016) - VIDEO
- Iftikhar Dadi Urdu Cinema during the 50s (11/24/2014) - POSTER
- Parul Dave Mukherji On the Common Sense of Indian Aesthetics (9/18/2014) - VIDEO
- Parul Dave Mukherji Art History in India (9/17/2014) - VIDEO
- Alka Patel Geopolitics & Material Culture in North India (10/23/2014) - VIDEO
- Qamar Adamjee Persia, India & a Zoroastrian silver bowl (03/13/2014) - VIDEO
- Sugata Ray love-land (03/04/2013) - VIDEO
- Salima Hashmi Guftugu: Faiz & his influence on Art (9/25/11) - VIDEO
- Rajiv Lochan Art & South Asia (7/29/2007) - POSTER
Artist Talks
- Asim Waqif: Decentralising the Creative Process (September 30, 2022)
- Asma Kazmi: Ecologies of Meaning (Artists Speak Series) April 26, 2022
- Saba Qizilbash The UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize Lecture for 2022,
- Hajra Waheed Crisis and Creativity February 08, 2022
- Faizan Ahmad A Photobook from Pakistan: Traveling on the Metro Bus for Five Years,
- Walking across Disciplines, artist talk by Naiza Khan (3/31/2021)
- Aziz Sohail and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr., two queer Pakistani artists redefining what it means to be queer and Pakistani. (3/10/2021)
- A conversation betweennoted collector of Indian art, Dr. Gursharan S Sidhu and New Delhi-based art historian and curator Naman Ahuja. (3/3/2021)
- Filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Tate Modern Senior Curator Yasufumi Nakamori (2/18/2021)
- Amar Kanwar + Shanay Jhaveri | Crisis and Creativity: Artists Speak Series (9/21/2020)
- Sugata Ray & Ranu Mukherjee Catastrophe & Storytelling Climate Change and Sacred Groves (5/4/2020)
- Jane and Kito de Boer + Deepanjana D. Klein Vital Love: Collectors Speak Series (9/18/2020)
- Allan deSouza + Gayatri Gopinath Crisis & Creativity: Artists Speak Series (10/8/2020)
- Brendan Fernandes and Mithu Sen Virtual Artists in Residence (10/25/2020)
- Alwar Balasubramaniam + Atreyee Gupta Crisis & Creativity: Artists Speak Series (11/12/2020)
- Art from Politics in Bangladesh (7/19/2019)
- Haroon Mirza The Creative Repercussions of Counterculture (4/3/2019)
- Allan deSouza How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change (10/26/2018)
- Shuddhabrata Sengupta Kinetic Contemplation (11/6/2018)
- Neha Choksi Exploring Absence (2/26/2018)
- Atul Bhalla Ecoaesthetics: A Round Table (3/3/2016) - VIDEO
- Pushpamala N. Performative Cultures (4/3/2015) - VIDEO
- Indrani Baruah Creative Placemaking (11/4/2014) - POSTER
- Daisy Rockwell The Little Book of Terror (04/13/12) - VIDEO
- Naiza Khan Contemporary Pakistani Art (10/16/11) - VIDEO
- Anjolie Ela Menon Artist Talk (10/11/2010) - POSTER
- Jatin Das Artist Talk (10/5/2009) - POSTER
Conferences, Workshops & Documentaries
- Yasmin Nupur: Art from Politics in Bangladesh (7/19/2019)
- Indian Ocean Art Histories: Goa; Bombay: Kochi (4/23/2019) - External link
- History of Art graduate students visit India as part of the 2019 Judith Stronach Travel Seminar
- A Retrospective: James Ivory In Person (Feb 20, 22, 23, 2019)
- Panel: Art, Cinema, & Popular Culture in Bangladesh (2/22/2019)
- Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective (Nov 7, 2018)
- Bay Area Conversations: The Arts of South Asia and its Diasporas (Oct 26, 2018)
- Eco Art History: Genealogies, Methodologies, Practices, Horizons (May 4-5, 2018)
- Cinephiles, Fandoms, and Global Media Cultures: Indian Cinema from a Transcultural Perspective (Oct 6, 2017)
- Amit Dutta Three Shorts on Indian Painting (09/8/2017)
- Collecting South Asia: Archiving South Asia (2/18/14) CONF. REPORT
