Past Conferences / Events

NEW SERIES!!! ACSAA Book Talks 2021

NEW SERIES: ACSAA GRADUATE STUDENTS SHOWCASE 2021 (MEMBERS ONLY)

The next ACSAA Biennial Symposium will be held at University of Georgia, Athens (April 7-8, 2022) and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta (April 9-10, 2022).

CONFERENCE: American Curators of Asian Art (ACAA Forum), 2 – 4 June 2019, Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian. Washington, DC., USA.

CONFERENCE: Persianate Cultures of Power and Global Elite Networks, UC Irvine, June 13, 2019.

CONFERENCE: “Fibre, Loom and Technique” at the 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), July 16 – 19, 2019, Leiden, Netherlands. 

CONFERENCE: Madison South Asia, October 17 – 20, 2019. Madison, WI, USA.

ACSAA Biennial Symposium November 7 – 9, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

SEMINAR: “An Introduction to Islamic Manuscript Culture” with Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan. May 20-22, 2019, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

SEMINAR: “Master, Mentor, and Disciple: The Painter in Mughal South Asia” with Yael Rice, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College. April 4 – 5, 2019, Jnanapravaha, Mumbai, India.  

CONFERENCE: Indian Textile Trade Symposium, April 19, 2019, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

CONFERENCE: 2019 SASA Conference: Taking South Asia to the World, March 1 – 3, 2019 at Claremont McKenna College.

LECTURE: “The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor” with Yves Porter, Professor of Islamic Art History, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Universitaire de France. March 14, 2019 at Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

LECTURE: “Asceticism and Art: Early Buddhist Rockcut Monasteries of Western India” with Dr. Pia Brancaccio, March 15 at 4:30PM, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

CONFERENCE: 2019 Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) conference, March 21 – 23, 2019 at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum of Art. Cincinnati, OH, USA.

CAA 2019 Panels of interest for ACSAA Members

LECTURE: “Ajrakh Textile Traditions in Contemporary Art and Craft” with Shelly Jyoti, Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 12pm, The Textile Museum / George Washington University Museum, Washington, DC, USA.

CONFERENCE: The Fabric of India Symposium, November 11, 2018 from 9:30am – 4:30pm. Cincinnati Art Museum. 

WORKSHOP: Traditional Indian BlockPrinting with Padmini Govind, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Saturday, November 10, 2018 from 10am – 5pm. 

LECTURE: “Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage” with Ünver Rüstem, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Johns Hopkins University; Harvard AKPIA Fellow. Thursday November 8, 2018, 6 – 7:30pm. Real Colegio Complutense, Cambridge, MA, USA.

CONFERENCE: 2018 HIAA Symposium “Border Crossing” October 25 – 27, 2018 at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

LECTURE: “Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisans” with Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University.Thursday, October 11, 2018 from 6 – 7pm at Real Colegio Complutense, Cambridge, MA, USA.