THE SPICE ROUTE: Connected Histories in South & Southeast Asia
Thursday | 16 June 2022 |12.30pm UK | 7.30pm Singapore
Roundtable with historians & art historians, discussing the connected histories between South & Southeast Asia along the spice trade routes.
Speakers: Daud Ali is Associate Professor in South Asia Studies (@SouthAsiaPenn) at the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn), a historian of early medieval South Asia & has researched/published on historical connections between South & Southeast Asia; William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) is a multi-award winning historian & writer; his forthcoming book, 'The Golden Road', looks at the connected histories of South & Southeast Asia, particularly those emanating from India; Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller (Emerita) Professor of Indian & South Asian Art in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University (@Columbia), and has published extensively on South & Southeast Asian art; Elizabeth Lambourn is Professor of Material Histories, De Montfort University (@dmuleicester), and is an expert on Indian Ocean histories from AD 600-1500 on which she has published several monographs.
Discussant: Jeffrey Say is an art historian specialising in Singapore & Southeast Asian art histories at LaSalle College of the Arts (@LASALLESG), Singapore, and co-editor of Institutions, Intersections, Innovations: A Reader in Singapore Modern Art (forthcoming).
Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE)
This event is in collaboration with LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
Photo credit: Crawford Jolly, Unsplash.
Please click here to register free for the event; the livestream link will be sent to all registered audience on the day of the event.