Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Virtual Event

As an anthropologist having done research in New York, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Rome, the Muslim Philippines, and since 2002 among the Mithila painters in Bihar, India, David Szanton has been fascinated by the ways that art forms are shaped by, give shape to, express and critique the evolution of their surrounding societies. In that context, Szanton will speak about the importance of grasping the multiple and constantly shifting views of what is deemed important and true in societies other than one's own; what makes sense, what is obvious, what is moral, or outside one’s own formation.

Co-sponsored by the India Studies Program and Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at UConn.