Monday, August 22 –
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Registration Required
How did historians, artists, soldiers, and owls, among others, picture, write about, or leave traces of their environments circa 1750 to 1850? This workshop will address the documentation of Indian landscapes from multiple angles, ranging from human geography, tax and other economic regimes to pictorial and narrative descriptions, and imaginative expressions in political, religious, and literary works.
Participants:
Shahzad Bashir, Brown University
"Seeing the World from Lucknow (in 1833)"
Divya Cherian, Princeton University
“Liminal Landscapes: The Owl and the Occult in Early Modern North India”
Purnima Dhavan, University of Washington
“Roots, Routes, and the Travelling Gaze: Topography and Narrative in Aʿzam Dedmari’s Waqiʿat-i Kashmir”
Abhishek Kaicker, UC Berkeley
“But Did They Write History? Historical Consciousness and Writing about the Past in Mughal India”
Naveena Naqvi, University of British Columbia
"The Landscape of Independent Soldiering under the Company Sarkar"?
Holly Shaffer, Brown University
"Plants, Gardens, Markets: Approaching Food Through Landscape Art in North India"
Hasan Zahid Siddiqui, University of British Columbia
"The Archimedean Point of Late Mughal Universal History"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies