Please join us online for this exciting two-day symposium on Islamicate manuscripts. More info and Zoom registration here: ed.ac.uk/information-se…

For Earth Week, we talk about monsoons, princes, and punk rock on Sidedoor Podcast. #OurSustainablePlanet

My essay about a man I have come to love - in Orion Magazine I've been reading recent research about how plants cry or how they can be anaesthetised. Jagadish Bose said all this more than 100 years ago, but he was mocked; his research is still not cited orionmagazine.org/article/jagadi…

Join me this week Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art for public tours #AspledidLand in DC. Eagerly looking forward to welcoming colleagues from City Palace Museum Udaipur this week.

Just two weeks remain of "A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur!" Take a video tour with our curators, and visit before May 14th to see extraordinary paintings from royal Udaipur: s.si.edu/41OFRAP

Check out the national museum of asian art two weeks of free events! Including the ongoing “A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur” which our dear friend Dipti Khera has co-curated. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

CONF: The Art & Architecture of Mapping: Visual & Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects, 20-21/6/2023 The Courtauld Research Forum. Free and open to the public — please join us! Registration and more info: courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-a…

Holy moly - the The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hiring 4 provenance researchers to look at “all works that came to the museum from art dealers who have been under investigation” + those acquired 1970-90, "a period of rapid growth" with "less scrutiny on provenance": nytimes.com/2023/05/09/art…

The Indian Express asked me to write about my vision for India at 100. I wrote about a new Constitution and a new preamble that I hope begins with 'We, the people and plants and animals of India ...' indianexpress.com/article/column…

Need some #book inspiration? Take a tour of books recently published by #AIIS #Dissertation to Book workshop participants! (also, apply to take part in this year's workshop!) Workshop: October 17-18, 2023 Application Deadline: July 31, 2023 indiastudies.org/book-prize/dis…

*beyond excited* to share the Introduction to 'Citizens of Photography' : 'Photographing - Or the Future of the Image' by the brilliant Christopher Pinney dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMate… Book out in September with Duke University Press / pre-order here: dukeupress.edu/citizens-of-ph… #PhotoDemos

In the past two weeks some amazing friends and colleagues have engaged #ASplendidLand Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Jinee Lokaneeta and Sangay Mishra were in there for more than 4 hours at a stretch, over and above the time most art historians can focus. Thank you!

If you’re visiting #asplendidland Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art on the final weekend, do not miss the The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU graduate students’ curatorial conversations. Most fun to see the show with all of you last month. Emma Hartman, Ruth Waddington and Salih Cholakkalakath👇🏼

Finally spent time today with the amazing conservator Saloni Ghuwalewala who conserved City Palace Museum paintings featured in #ASplendidLand Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. And had excellent conversations last month on future research with CPM team DRONAH Shailka, Mayank Gupta, Hansmukh Seth.

The lovely people of Exeter South Asia - @exetersouthasia.bsky.social have inadvertently brought together two MA classmates for this session. Thrilled to be talking about what I know best alongside my old friend and classmate, the wonderful historian Aparna Balachandran #AcademicTwitter #PreparingForPublications