Changing Times, Changing Art: A Conversation
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Art Building Room 106
Changing Times, Changing Art: A Conversation With Susan Wadley, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University, and Shalinee Kumari, Mithila Artist.
Note: Event takes place in the Art Building, Room 106.
Bios: Susan Snow Wadley is an American anthropologist. She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1967 and 1973, respectively. She is an Emeritus Professor at Syracuse University where she was professor of South Asian Studies and the former director of its South Asia Center. She has worked with Tula Goenka on documentary films on Mithila changing traditions in Mithila art. Shalinee Kumari is considered to be one of the most progressive artists in the Mithila tradition who has exhibited her work internationally. Her paintings are highly narrative and include topics such as women’s rights, global warming as well as traditional Indian imagery and folktales. She is from the village of Baxitola Haripur in the Madhubani district of Bihar and currently lives in Hyderabad, teaching at ITT Hyderabad and teaching many workshops in Mithila art.
Co-sponsored by the India Studies Program, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at UConn.
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