Wolfson Event Logo

Text and Textiles: Approaches to Material Past in South Asia

Add to Calendar Text and Textiles: Approaches to Material Past in South AsiaSeminar Room 2 - The Academic Wing
Lectures and Seminars
Location
Seminar Room 2 - The Academic Wing
Speakers
Samia Khatun and Jasleen Kandhari
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Soumya Mishra
Contact email
soumya.mishra@sant.ox.ac.uk

The Spinners and Weavers of the Dacca Factory: Rethinking Worker's Histories of Muslin Production in Bengal by Samia Khatun -a writer, filmmaker and cultural historian and her research focuses in upon on the experiences, knowledges and life-worlds of colonised peoples in South Asia and Australia.

The Politics of Embroidery: Partition & The Phulkari Textile Tradition of Punjab by Jasleen Kandhari - Jasleen is an art and textiles historian specialising in the artistic & material heritage of the Punjab. She is tutoring courses on Textiles of the Sikhs & the Punjab and South Asian Dress & Fashion this academic year at the University of Oxford, Continuing Education and would like to hear from prospective Fashion Studies students to tutor research projects at BA. MA, PhD level in the History of Art department.