The 2019 Judith Stronach Travel Seminar focused on the Indian Ocean, the third largest water body and the worlds oldest cultural continuum that has facilitated the mobility of people, objects, and ideas over millennia. Students in the seminar mapped the ways in which such oceanic networks also shaped the global history of art from the early modern period to the contemporary by focusing on three key moments in this longue durée history: Goa in the early modern period, Bombay (now Mumbai) under British rule, and the contemporary in Kochi via the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. In this day-long public symposium, participants of the seminar will present their research papers. The Travel Seminar was made possible due to a generous gift to the Department of History of Art from the Estate of Judith Lee Stronach.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Oceanic Art Histories: A Brief Introduction, 11:00-11:15am
Indian Ocean Art Histories, Sugata Ray
Notes From the Field, Diliana Angelova
Networks of Circulation, 11:15-12:45pm
Rethinking East Asia in the Indian Ocean World: Tsukijihonganji Temple and Indo-Saracenic Style Architecture across the Japanese Empire, Andrea Jung-An Liu
Eco Art Deco: Maritime Modernisms of Bombay and Beyond, Riad Kherdeen
The Free-floating Srinagar Biennale: Kashmirs Distant Traumas Transported, Melissa Carlson
Lunch, 12:45-1:45pm
Considering Material, 1:45-3:15pm
Bom Jesus: Questions Concerning Style in Goan Church Architecture, Joseph Albanese
Pierced Bodies: Ivory and Wood Figures in Kochi and Goa, Ramón De Santiago
Material Matrix: The Trans-Oceanic and Geological Construction of the Victoria Terminus, Joel Thielen
Break, 3:15-3:30pm
Art Histories from Below, 3:30-5:00pm
Forgotten Crosses: Material Evidence of a Medieval Indian Ocean Christianity, Ariana Pemberton
Sanskritizing the Vernacular Aesthetic: Re-contextualizing Betal and other Goan folk deities through the lens of Vedic Orthodoxies, Alex Ciolac
Problems and Possibilities of Resistance: Positioning the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Katherine Bruhn
Wine Reception, 5:00pm
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