Past Events
Do Not Draw Me: Making Art in India's Northeast
Kelly Writers House
Parismita Singh in conversation with Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania, on feminist art and cultural practice.
The Last 300 Copies of the Book on the Way to Being Pulped A workshop w/ Parismita Singh and Bakirathi Mani
White Room Morgan/Weitzman
An interactive workshop for a book in search of characters and incidents with Parismita Singh moderated by Bakirathi Mani, Professor of English, Swarthmore College Participants will be encouraged to remake or desecrate copies of Singh's books. Art material and instructions will…
Creativity and Censorship: A Discussion with Parismita Singh
Lea Library, Kislak Center, 6th Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Join Parismita Singh in an informal discussion about Darsana, UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2676, an artist's sketchbook (1700-1850) from North India with text in Sanskrit acquired in the 1930s through the efforts of W. Norman Brown and others. The catalogue entry for Darsana states…
Making Books in South Asia
Kislak, Van Pelt
Join us for roundtables with artists and writers celebrating the publication of Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia (University of Washington Press, 2023).