香港六合彩

For scholars of Critical Area Studies, more often working on modern topics and problems, this workshop affords an opportunity to engage with historical perspectives broadly conceived 鈥� i.e., those from history, history of art, history of science, theology, geography, anthropology, etc. How do we productively reframe Area Studies once we go deeper into the past and farther from the era that gave meaning to 鈥楽outh Asia鈥� and the 鈥楳iddle East鈥� and manifested these categories in real-life institutions and discourse?

For scholars of South Asia and the Middle East, too, this workshop provides an opportunity to rethink categories, not least what has long been a Eurocentric one 鈥� namely, the 鈥榚arly modern鈥�. Can we speak of a 鈥榞lobal鈥� rather than merely a Europe-centred 鈥榚arly modernity鈥�? Where can we locate South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern world at large, and what role(s) did these regions and their inhabitants play in shaping early modernity? And what do such findings offer, in turn, to how we understand the fields of 鈥楽outh Asian studies鈥� and 鈥楳iddle East studies鈥�?

Programme

10.30-10.45:聽聽 聽INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

10.45-11.45:聽聽 聽FINDING 鈥楨ARLY MODERNITY鈥�
Chair: Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick)

• Nandini Chatterjee (Exeter/Oxford), 鈥楾he 鈥渓ost鈥� Mughal archives: look under the bed!鈥櫬�
• Pranav Prakash (Oxford), 鈥楶remodern Hindu Narratives + New Persian Genres of the Islamicate World + A Millennium of Literary Production = An Archive of Persian Pur膩峁嘺 Manuscripts?鈥�

11.45-12.00:聽聽 聽BREAK

12.00-12.45:聽聽 聽READING 鈥楨ARLY MODERNITY鈥�
Chair: Richard Williams (SOAS)

• Nitya Gundu (Warwick), 鈥楢ccommodating Early Modernity: Exploring Local Narratives from the Bobbili katha鈥櫬�
• Avni Chag (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), 鈥楨xploring Literary Practices in Early Modern/Late Precolonial India鈥�

12.45-14.00: 聽聽 聽LUNCH
SHOW AND TELL 1
Chair/Discussant: Nalina Gopal (香港六合彩)
Yasmin Hayat (artist); 鈥楥ontemporary Miniature Painting: What We've Learnt from the Mughal Masters鈥�

14.00-14.45:聽聽 聽CATEGORISING SPACE AND TIME
Chair: Alexander Samson (香港六合彩)

• Zeynep 脟avu艧o臒lu-Y谋ld谋r谋m (EHESS), 鈥楶utting things in Order & Understanding of History in Early Modern Persianate Universal Histories鈥�
• Kristof Szitar (Lausanne), 鈥楳uch Ado About Space: Mapping Medieval and Early Modern Dynasties鈥�

14.45-15.30:聽聽 聽COFFEE
SHOW AND TELL 2 & 3
Chair: Tariq Jazeel (香港六合彩)

• Michael Talbot (Greenwich), 鈥楩ollow the Money: The Indian Ocean Larin鈥�
• Salila Kulshreshtha (NYU Abu Dhabi), 鈥楥hronologies and Geographies of the Western Indian Ocean: Mapping History Digitally鈥�

15.30-1645:聽聽 聽TASTING, HEARING, AND SEEING 鈥楨ARLY MODERNITY鈥�
Chair: Aparna Kumar (香港六合彩)

• Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), 鈥楢 Persianate Age? Contesting Early Modernity in the Indian Ocean and Middle East鈥�
• Richard David Williams (SOAS), 鈥業nterpretation as Intermarriage: Musical Aesthetics between Persian and Hindavi in the seventeenth century鈥�
• Debanjali Biswas, 鈥極n the Heels of Musicians: Bringing bhakti to Manipur鈥�

16.45.18.00:聽聽 聽CLOSING REMARKS

DRINKS RECEPTION

This workshop is being organised by the 香港六合彩 Middle East Research Centre (MERC) and the 香港六合彩 Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World (CSSA), with generous funding from聽the Institute of Advanced Studies聽and additional support from the 香港六合彩 Centre for Transnational and Global History.

Image credit: cropped section of 'Nan va Halva (Breads and Sweets)' (MET, 1999.157) by聽, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons