The annual online lecture series organised by the Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies (GCSAS) is dedicated this year to the theme “More-than-human South Asia: Ecologies, Knowledge, Bodies, and Senses”.
This lecture series explores South Asia as a space of more-than-human relations among humans, animals, plants, environments, and multiple forms of knowledge, with particular attention to bodies and senses as key sites of interaction with ecological and material worlds. It brings together environmental humanities, anthropology, history, religion, politics, geography, and South Asian studies to examine how ecologies, sensory experiences, and knowledge production are deeply entangled across South Asia and its transregional connections.
All our presenters can be followed online (registration required); some lectures will also be available on campus.
Everyone is warmly invited to join: follow the links in the programme below to register!
PROGRAMME & REGISTRATION
Wednesday 11 March, from 5 pm CET
Eduardo Acosta (Stanford University)
Perpetual Fluctuation: The Rivers of Bengal as Historical Agents, 1750–1800
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bf1b6f63-52e5-4fa9-9c38-c6a1f789e2ff@d7811cde-ecef-496c-8f91-a1786241b99c
Wednesday 18 March, from 4 pm CET
Priyanka Basu (King’s College, London)
Songs of Climate and Caution: Human and Non-Human Entanglements in Contemporary Scroll Paintings (Patachitra) from Bengal
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a7615d65-1052-43f4-b1fb-03e3db1929f8@d7811cde-ecef-496c-8f91-a1786241b99c
Wednesday 1 April, from 4 pm CET
Gerrit Lange (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
A Family Meeting with Nagini Mata: Establishing Relations with the Serpent World, Trees, Grasses and Rivers in a Himalayan Valley
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6d25f018-b0d3-4bed-95ac-cd4d049455b5@d7811cde-ecef-496c-8f91-a1786241b99c
Wednesday 22 April, from 4 pm CET
Nuno Grancho (University of Copenhagen)
Shared and Contested Sacred Spaces in South Asian Colonial Cities
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6b5d5838-5e1c-4271-99d2-2a08993aa19e@d7811cde-ecef-496c-8f91-a1786241b99c
Wednesday 29 April, from 4 pm CET
James McHugh (University of Southern California)
Surā’s Many Cups: A Survey of Humans using Plants to make Mind-Altering Substances in Pre-modern South Asia
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2c25c205-0876-4aae-8b7d-9ed00adbe5e8@d7811cde-ecef-496c-8f91-a1786241b99c
Wednesday 13 May, from 4 pm CET
Andrea Gutiérrez (University of Texas at Austin)
Alongside Captive Elephants: History and Religion between Species
Wednesday 20 May, from 4 pm CET
Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil (Ghent University)
Camelbacks, Hoofprints, and the Hajj: South Asian Archives of Non-Human Lifeworlds in the Journey to Mecca
Wednesday 27 May, from 4 pm CET
Andrew Halladay (London School of Economics)
Tails from Colonial North India: The Lives and Companions of Street Dogs in the United Provinces