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Thinking With Materiality in the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference
Friday, Sep 13, 2024
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| MORNING SESSION | |
| 08:00–08:15 PDT | Opening Words Chase Caldwell Smith, Patrick Morgan, and Sofía Yazpik |
| 8:15–8:20 PDT | Welcome Zrinka Stahuljak, Director, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA |
| PANEL 1: Making South Asian and Indian Ocean Materialities Moderator: Chase Caldwell Smith |
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| 8:20–8:40 PDT | Traded Silks for the Gods in Kerala: Patola, its Connections, Contributions and Shared Identities Prerana Nair, University of Edinburgh |
| 8.40–9:00 PDT | The Thar Desert – A Material Conception of an Arid Landscape Paro Tomar, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Delhi |
| 9:00–9:20 PDT | Cross-Imperial Trade, Family Ties, and the Domestic Interior in British and French Colonial India, c. 1700-1748 Rosalind Rothwell, Duke University |
| 9:20–9:40 PDT | Discussion & Questions Prerana Nair, Paro Tomar, and Rosalind Rothwell |
| 9:40–10:00 PDT | First Morning Break |
| PANEL 2: Material Archives Moderator: Patrick Morgan |
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| 10:00–10:20 PDT | Stitching Stones: Untangling Gender and Craft Performativity at Uxmal Cassidy Canon, University of Florida |
| 10:20–10:40 PDT | 1 Object, 100 Faces: Decoding and Recoding Ottoman Material Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe (1700-1800) Sophia Abplanalp, University of Vienna |
| 10:40–11:00 PDT | Animal blood in Natural History: investigating violence in scientific illustrations of Portuguese America’s fauna (XVIII century) Maria Góes, Universidade Federal do Pará |
| 11:00–11:20 PDT | Discussion & Questions Cassidy Canon, Sophia Abplanalp, and Maria Góes |
| 11:20–11:40 PDT | Second Morning Break |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |
| Panel 3: Mobile Materialities Moderator: Sofía Yazpik |
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| 11:40 –12:00 PDT |
Exploring Materiality and Meaning in the Sinking of the Vasa (1626-1628) |
| 12:00–12:20 PDT | Hunting for Clusters: Reconstructing Archival Networks and Document Mobility in Pre-Ottoman Jerusalem Anna Steffen, Universität Hamburg |
| 12:20–12:40 PDT |
Circulating Civilisation – Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change |
| 12:40–1:00 PDT | Discussion & Questions Roman Cain, Anna Steffen, and Sandrine Welte |
| 1:00–1:20 PDT | Afternoon Break |
| 1:20–1:50 PDT | Group Discussion on Thinking with Materiality All participants |
| 1:50–2:00 PDT | Closing Remarks Chase Caldwell Smith, Patrick Morgan, and Sofía Yazpik |