Making Books in South Asia

Organized by Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, with generous support from the Penn Global Engagement Fund, the School of Arts and Sciences Conference Support Grant, the South Asia Center, and the Departments of the History of Art and South Asia Studies.

About the Speakers

Iftikhar Dadi is John H. Burris Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University. He is the author of Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (University of Washington Press, 2022).

Sylvia Houghteling is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Princeton University Press, 2022).

Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (University of California Press, 2015).

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra taught at the University of Allahabad from where he is now retired. His most recent book is Collected Poems (Shearsman Books, 2022).

Parismita Singh is an artist and writer based in Guwahati, India and the author of The Hotel at the End of the World (Penguin India, 2009) and Peace Has Come (Westland, 2018).

Anand A. Yang is Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021).