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, notarar@gmail.com