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Thinking With Materiality in the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

September 13

 

MORNING SESSION
08:00–08:15 PDT Opening Words
Chase Caldwell Smith, Patrick Morgan, and Sofía Yazpik
8:15–8:20 PDT Welcome
Zrinka Stahuljak, Director, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA
PANEL 1: Making South Asian and Indian Ocean Materialities
Moderator: Chase Caldwell Smith
8:20–8:40 PDT Traded Silks for the Gods in Kerala: Patola, its Connections, Contributions and Shared Identities
Prerana Nair, University of Edinburgh
8.40–9:00 PDT The Thar Desert – A Material Conception of an Arid Landscape
Paro Tomar, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Delhi
9:00–9:20 PDT Cross-Imperial Trade, Family Ties, and the Domestic Interior in British and French Colonial India, c. 1700-1748
Rosalind Rothwell, Duke University
9:20–9:40 PDT Discussion & Questions
Prerana Nair, Paro Tomar, and Rosalind Rothwell
9:40–10:00 PDT First Morning Break
PANEL 2: Material Archives
Moderator: Patrick Morgan
10:00–10:20 PDT Stitching Stones: Untangling Gender and Craft Performativity at Uxmal
Cassidy Canon, University of Florida
10:20–10:40 PDT 1 Object, 100 Faces: Decoding and Recoding Ottoman Material Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe (1700-1800)
Sophia Abplanalp, University of Vienna
10:40–11:00 PDT Animal blood in Natural History: investigating violence in scientific illustrations of Portuguese America’s fauna (XVIII century)
Maria Góes, Universidade Federal do Pará
11:00–11:20 PDT Discussion & Questions
Cassidy Canon, Sophia Abplanalp, and Maria Góes
11:20–11:40 PDT Second Morning Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
Panel 3: Mobile Materialities
Moderator: Sofía Yazpik
11:40 –12:00 PDT

Exploring Materiality and Meaning in the Sinking of the Vasa (1626-1628)
Roman Cain, The Ohio State University

12:00–12:20 PDT Hunting for Clusters: Reconstructing Archival Networks and Document Mobility in Pre-Ottoman Jerusalem
Anna Steffen, Universität Hamburg
12:20–12:40 PDT

Circulating Civilisation Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change
Sandrine Welte, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

12:40–1:00 PDT Discussion & Questions
Roman Cain, Anna Steffen, and Sandrine Welte
1:00–1:20 PDT Afternoon Break
1:20–1:50 PDT Group Discussion on Thinking with Materiality
All participants 
1:50–2:00 PDT Closing Remarks
Chase Caldwell Smith, Patrick Morgan, and Sofía Yazpik

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