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“These Memorials Cannot Be Called A Political Project”:
A Virtual Conversation with Dr Akshaya Tankha

We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation with Dr Akshaya Tankha, Forsyth Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr Tankha will begin with an introduction to his book project Nagaland and the Art of Indigenous Presence in Postcolonial South Asia which explores the open-ended border-crossing that objects and their makers perform across ritual and secular domains of practice, the contestations this process engenders and what that tells us about the contemporaneity of ‘art’, and the political significance of the aesthetic in the Indigenously inhabited and politically contested postcolonial South Asia. This will be followed by a focused discussion on one of the chapters, ‘“These memorials cannot be called a political project”: The Naga memorial monument and the aesthetics of Indigenous presence in postcolonial South Asia’, and a moderated discussion with the audience.

Please email the organizers for a copy of the book chapter draft (Pritha Mukherjee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Sneha Khaund: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). We hope that this will be of interest to scholars across multiple disciplines at Rutgers.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvcu-urDMpGdZR1_6aYPMrnAKyuMYioRqE

Organized by:
The Global Asias Working Group on Decolonization in South Asia
In collaboration with:
The Indigenous Studies Working Group at CLAS,
Rutgers-New Brunswick