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