Image, Object and Context

Centre of South Asian Studies
University of London
21/22 Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

Friday 26 October 2007, 10 am-4.30 pm

One-day informal workshop on the relationship between images and texts; on
the use of visual sources for historical research and on the relevance of
literary sources for reflecting on images and their contexts

Programme

Morning
10.00 welcome
10.10-10.40 Robert Skelton, 'Sultanate Painting After the Sultanate Period'
10.40-11.10 Laura E. Parodi, 'Contextualising an Early Mughal Painting:
Humayun and Hindal in a Landscape'
11.10-11.30 Discussion

11.30-11.50 Coffee Break

11.50-12.20 Susan Stronge, 'Minto Album and Its Problems'
12.20-12.50 Stefano Pellò, 'The Portrait and Its Double in Persian Sources'
12.50-1.10 Discussion

1.10-2.00 Lunch Break

Afternoon
2.00-4.30 Open session on the historical reading of select images

If you want to attend, please contact Nadeem Omar Tarar, notarargmail.com

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Dr Nadeem Omar Tarar
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Languages and Cultures of South Asia
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London, WC1H OXG

Email: No1soas.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7898 4297

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