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> December 21, 2012
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> CFP: 'Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods'
> (Cambridge, March 2013)
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> From: Charles V. Reed <cvreed@mail.ecsu.edu<mailto:cvreed@mail.ecsu.edu>>
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>
> Please find below information about the first international conference on
> 'Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods',
> Cambridge, UK, 15-16 March 2013.
>
> Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge) and Prof.
> Marcus Banks (University of Oxford).
> Full details at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2066/
>
> The Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, and the Centre
> for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) are
> organising the first international conference on 'Exploring modern South
> Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'.
>
> This conference aims to investigate the ways in which visual research
> methods support the development of new perspectives on modern South Asian
> history. It will explore the strategies employed by historians and
> scholars of visual (digital) culture, film and visual anthropology when
> incorporating representations of South Asian history within the framework
> of traditional historical scholarship. Also, the role of interdisciplinary
> research in terms of producing, distributing, re-interpreting and
> repatriating visual records of South Asian history will be assessed
> throughout several roundtable discussions.
>
> The conference will create for the first time the opportunity to
> strengthen the network of historians, anthropologists, visual and digital
> scholars and artists concerned with the re-examination of modern South
> Asian history across visual records. It proposes four themes of
> investigation that will support new scholarly developments:
>
> ▪ digital humanities and issues of South Asian history, visuality
> and ethnographic enquiry
> ▪ theories of visual anthropology relevant to historiographical
> research of South Asia
> ▪ examples of historical scholarship strengthened by visual research
> methodologies
> ▪ historical and anthropological practices replicated in visual
> artwork inspired by South Asian history
>
> Keynote addresses will be delivered by Professor Marcus Banks (University
> of Oxford) and by Professor Christopher Pinney (University College
> London). Papers, panels and roundtable discussions led by international
> scholars such as Professor Denis Vidal (École des Hautes Études en
> Sciences Sociales, Paris), Dr Clare Harris (University of Oxford) and
> Professor Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS, Delhi) will explore new perspectives on
> visual research methods and modern South Asian history. Also, there will
> be three exclusive presentations by the renowned visual artists Pushpamala
> N., Rajkamal Kahlon and Ayisha Abraham. The opening address will be
> delivered by Professor Sir C.A. Bayly, Director of the Centre of South
> Asian Studies.
>
> Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.
>
> The conference organisers invite proposals for papers or presentations of
> 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of 300 words and an author biography of
> max. 100 words (including institutional affiliation) should be submitted
> via email to
> exploringsouthasianhistorycsas@gmail.com<mailto:exploringsouthasianhistorycsas@gmail.com><mailto:exploringsouthasianhistorycsas@gmail.com<mailto:exploringsouthasianhistorycsas@gmail.com>>
> by 31 December 2012.
>
> Any questions and concerns can be directed to Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
> at amm230[at]cam.ac.uk<http://cam.ac.uk>
>
>
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> Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
> University of Cambridge
>
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