Envisaging South Asia: Images, Art and Scholarship

A new exhibit in the University of Washington’s Allen Library explores South Asia through art, artifacts, manuscripts, music and more. “Envisaging South Asia: Images, Art and Scholarship” was curated by Deepa Banerjee, South Asia Studies librarian, and will be on view through Oct. 31.

Six public lectures will be offered in conjunction with the exhibit, all in the Allen library auditorium.

• Devdutt Patnaik, at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 29.
  • “Mythology, the Subjective Truth & the Root of Coexistence & Harmony Across Cultures : The Stories of Hindu Gods and the Fruits of the Vedic Tree”
• Don Fels, at 3 p.m. on Oct. 24.
  • “Tagore and The Space Between Calcutta and Seattle”
• Rekha Sood, at 3 p.m. on Oct. 25.
  • “Being a Docent at the Seattle Art Museum: Connecting Art to Life”
• Sonal Khullar,  at 3 p.m. on Oct. 26.
  • “Old and New Fields of Art in South Asia”
• Alka Kurian, at 3 p.m. on Oct. 27.
  • “Gender and Indian Cinema”
• Bharti Kirchner, at 2 p.m. on Oct. 31.
  • “How I Became an Author in Fifteen or So Slides”

For more information about the exhibit or UW Libraries’ South Asia Section, contact Banerjee at 206-685-1433 or dbaner@uw.edu.