[INDOLOGY] A day-long symposium on "Craft Geographies"

[Pranav Prakash]

Dear All,



We are delighted to announce a day-long symposium, “*Craft Geographies:
Unravelling Material Cultures and Communities in South and Central Asian
History*,” at the 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of
Wisconsin–Madison, on Wednesday, *October 30, 2024*. Please find our flyer
attached here.



*Speakers*:

*Amanda Lanzillo* (University of Chicago) :: *“Listen O Muslims, Especially
You Blacksmiths”: Craft knowledge and Pashtun labour migration in the early
twentieth century *

*Ping-hsiu Alice Lin* (Harvard University) :: *Tacit Knowledge and Moving
Artisans in South Asia*

*Mohit Manohar* (University of Chicago) :: *Formal Convergences and
Iconographic Ambiguities at the Tombs of Bukhara and Mandu*

*Benjamin James Nourse* (University of Denver) :: *Tibetan Woodblock
Printing: Craft, Craftspeople, Networks, and Identity in 17th and
18th-century Inner Asia*

*Pranav Prakash* (University of Oxford) :: *An Inquiry into the
Transregional Imagination of Book Arts in Persianate Societies (12th–15th
Centuries)*

*Fatima Quraishi* (University of California–Riverside) :: *Crafting a
Vision of Kashmir: Painting and Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century *

*Amanda Respess* (Ohio State University) :: *Beyond the River and Below the
Wind: Contextualizing Early Epigraphic Ceramic Production along the
Medieval Islamicate Trade Routes*

*Megan Eaton Robb* (University of Pennsylvania) :: *Respecting the Writing,
Respecting the Writer: Inheritors of Calligraphy Respectability Texts in
Colonial India*



*Respondents:*

*Shah Mahmoud Hanifi *(James Madison University)

*Benjamin Hopkins* (George Madison University)

*Sylvia W. Houghteling* (Bryn Mwr College)

*Ron Sela* (Indian University Bloomington)



If you are planning to attend the conference, please consider attending our
symposium. For additional details and schedule, please contact us. We
eagerly look forward to your participation in the conference.



Warm regards,

Amanda Lanzillo (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)

Pranav Prakash (Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)



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Pranav Prakash
Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Senior Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University
of Virginia
Director of Studies for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Christ Church,
University of Oxford
Trustee, American Printing History Association
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