Ambika Rajgopal of Saffronart shares a note on the upcoming series of lectures at SOAS.
London: Department of Art & Archaeology of the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, kick starts the Indian Art Circle lecture series starting on the 3rd October 2013. This monthly seminar spans over the year and provides a cohesive and comprehensive look into the visual culture of India.
The series goes right up to June 2014 and hosts a number of notable speakers. Some of the speakers include Richard Blurton, Curator of South and Southeast Asia at the British Museum and Jerry Losty, Curator Emeritus at the British Library.
With lectures on topics as diverse as ‘Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple’, ‘The Iconography of the Ass-Riding Goddess in Hindu Myths of Chaos, Misfortune and Disease’ and ‘North-Indian (kundan) goldsmithing’, this lecture series hopes to enlighten and inform those interested about Indian visual practice.
The first lecture in the series commences on the 3rd of October 2013 and will be Pepita Seth’s ‘Heaven on earth: The Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple’ at Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London.
All meetings will be followed by reception.
Indian Art Circle logo. Image Credit: IAC, SOAS
Schedule:
Thursday 3 October
Pepita Seth (Independent Scholar, Kerala)
Heaven on earth: The Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple
Khalili Lecture Theatre – 7 pm
**Please note that this lecture will take place in the lecture theatre on the Lower ground floor of the Main SOAS Building, opposite the Brunei Gallery
Wednesday 6 November
Dr Konrad Seitz (Independent Scholar)
Orchha not Mandu, 1592 not 1634: A revolutionary view of ‘Malwa’ Painting
B102 – 6.30pm
Wednesday 4 December
Dr Fabrizio Ferrari (Professor of Religious Studies, University of Chester)
The Iconography of the Ass-Riding Goddess in Hindu Myths of Chaos, Misfortune and Disease
B111 – 6.30pm
Wednesday 15 January
Saskia Konniger (Associate Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden)
The Hidden Garden: North-Indian (kundan) goldsmithing, the repositioning of a craft in the face of past and present global dynamics.
B104 – 7 pm
Wednesday 12 February
To be confirmed
B104 – 7 pm
Wednesday 5 March
Professor Adam Hardy (Professor of Asian Architecture, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University)
The Temples of Ashapuri: resurrecting a Pratihara/Paramara site in Madhya Pradesh
B104 – 7 pm
Wednesday 2 April
Richard Blurton (Curator, South and Southeast Asia, British Museum)
Some further thoughts on the image of Shiva Nataraja
B104 – 6.30 pm
Wednesday 7 May
Jerry Losty (Curator Emeritus, British Library)
The 16th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
Codex Casanatense 1889: an Indian 16th century album in a Roman library
B102 – 6.30 pm
Wednesday 4 June
Laxshmi Greaves (PhD student, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University)
A series of figurative terracotta panels from the Gupta period Śiva temple at Ahichhatra, Uttar Pradesh.
B104 – 6.30 pm
For further information about the lecture series, please visit the IAC website.