Objects Across Borders: Conversations on South Asian Materialities

Objects Across Borders brings together scholars and creative practitioners working in and on South Asia to reflect on the stories embedded in visual and material artefacts.

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Can a matchbook contain and displace known听histories of worker struggles in the Sri Lankan hill听country? What might the traces of the china root听in Persian pharmacopeia suggest to us about 18th听century patients across the Indian Ocean? How听does a butter yellow can of milk powder illuminate听mobilities between the southern Indian state of听Kerala and the Arabian Gulf? What does the journey听of an audio cassette of popular music from听north-western Pakistan tell us about practices听of preservation and networks of trade? How might听remembering and forgetting among the inner听London Bangladeshi diaspora be examined through听a 500 taka note from East Pakistan?

Objects Across Borders brings together scholars听and creative practitioners working in and on South听Asia to reflect on the stories embedded in visual听and material artefacts. Through these conversations,听we hope to foreground new or overlooked connections, contradictions and solidarities听across disciplinary and geographic boundaries.听This series is organised by Vindhya Buthpitiya听(麻豆传媒视频网站) and (Princeton) and hosted听by the 麻豆传媒视频网站 Centre for the 麻豆传媒视频网站 of South Asia听and the Indian Ocean World, and and .