FACT AND FICTION: Making Art History Global?
Roundtable with art historians to discuss if art history can become global through transculturation, rather than economic globalisation.
SPEAKERS
~ Annie Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck University of London, and Founding Director of its Peltz Gallery; most recently, she has co-edited (with Ruth Phillips) 'Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization' (2020).
~ Deborah Hutton is Professor of Art History at The College of New Jersey, with a specialism in South Asian art, global art history and visual culture; she is, most recently, co-author (with De-nin Lee) of 'The History of Asian Art -- A Global View: Prehistory to the Present' (2023).
~ Monica Juneja is Professor of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, and author of 'Can Art History be Made Global: Meditations from the Periphery' (2023) -- the book being discussed at this event.
~ Dr Matthew Volgraff is a cultural historian of science focusing on modern central Europe, and currently NOMIS Fellow at the University of Basel; he is co-editor (with Frank Fehrenbach) of 'Okologien des Ausdrucks' ('Ecologies of Expression', 2022).
DISCUSSANT
~ Parul Dave Mukherji is Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and editor, most recently, of 'Ebrahim Alkazi - Directing Art: The Making of a Modern Indian Art World' ( 2016).
CHAIR
~ Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series.
Image © zgc1993, 2019, Unsplash.
