Zoom Seminars: Reflections on Using the Coomaraswamy Photo Albums on Sri Lanka (1903-1906)

The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies announces two Zoom seminars on Reflections on the Use of the Coomaraswamy Photo Albums Held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Through the efforts of various individuals, funding by the American Institute for Sri Lankan studies and the cooperation of the Museum of Fine Arts, the photographs in these albums can now be viewed online (and downloaded) through the support of the Princeton University libraries. See https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99125404772006421

Part I, Thursday 23rd January 2025, 8:30-10:00 PM in India/Sri Lanka, 3:00-4:30 PM in London, 10:00-11:30 AM in New York

T. Sanathanan (University of Jaffna): Ethnicizing Kandyan Design: Coomaraswamy and the popular narratives

Gill Juleff (University of Exeter): Singing the Smelt: peopling the record of iron and steel in Medieval Sinhalese Art

Part II, Thursday 30th January 2025, 8:30-10:00 PM in India/Sri Lanka, 3:00-4:30 PM in London, 10:00-11:30 AM in New York

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College, Columbia University), Reconstructing Kandyan style: Minnette de Silva and Medieval Sinhalese Art

Antonia Behan (Queen’s University), Archive as Network: Looking beyond Ananda Coomaraswamy

REGISTER FOR BOTH SEMINARS AT https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tS3N3CfITruyLkMyO7u1kw