Aesthetics of Expropriation: Abstraction in Fazal Sheikh’s Desert Bloom
06 December 2018, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
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With Zahid R. Chaudhury from Princeton University
Event Information
Open to
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Organiser
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Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World
Location
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IAS Forum, ground floor, South WingWilkins BuildingGower StreetLONDONWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Discussants: Diva Gujral (History of Art, UCL) and Mallika Leuzinger (History of Art, UCL)
This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World, which is part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
About the Speaker
Zahid R. Chaudhury
Associate Professor at Dept of English, Princeton University
Zahid R. Chaudhary specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. His first book, Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India, provides a historical and philosophical account of early photography in India, analyzing how aesthetic experiments in colonial photographic practice shed light on the changing nature of perception and notions of truth, memory, and embodiment. His current book project, Impunity: Notes on a Global Tendency, analyzes juridical, economic, political, and aesthetic aspects of the practices of impunity from the Cold War to the present, from postcolonial states to the United States.
More about Zahid R. Chaudhury