Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'

Eyes of the Ancestor: ‘returning’ photographs to an Indian village

Dr Mark Elliott, MAA, University of Cambridge

Monday, 25 February 2013

17:00 - 19:00

Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2

Conveners:

Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge)

Susanne Hammacher (Royal Anthropological Institute)

As a preamble to the first international conference on Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods, Cambridge, UK, 15-16 March 2013, the Centre of South Asian Studies is organising a seminar series that will introduce the theme of the conference. Several historians and anthropologists will discuss a selection of ethnographic / anthropological films of South Asia in relation to current historiographical methodologies. The series is organised in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute and CRASSH.

For the complete programme please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2379/