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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026  |  SAVE THE DATE
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Visual Arts is delighted to announce the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026\, featuring a diverse lineup of multidisciplinary contemporary artists\, art historians\, and practitioners. \nThis semester’s conversations will explore a wide range of ideas and practices—including identity and language\, abstraction and materiality\, visual storytelling\, urban space and displacement\, art and politics\, and the relationship between art and everyday life.  \nColloquium Schedule | Monsoon 2026 \nAll talks will be held at the Visual Arts Studio (ground floor sports block near basket ball court)\, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM. \n11 September | Mithu Sen \n18 September |  Manisha Parekh \n23 October | Shikhant S. \n30 October | Gigi Scaria \n6 November | Anupam Roy \n20 November | Deepti Mulgund\n  \nWe warmly invite faculty\, students and members of the university community to join us for these conversations and engage with the speakers. \nTo receive further updates\, talk-specific announcements and event details\, please sign up for the Visual Arts Colloquium mailing list: [Sign up here] \nWe look forward to welcoming you to the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026.  \n  \nwarm regards\, \nVisual Arts Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/visual-arts-colloquium-series-monsoon-2026--save-the-date/
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SUMMARY:From Paddy Fields to Proscenium to Public Space: Exploring Pedagogy as a Tool of Specific Art Engage
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Visual Arts is delighted to invite you to the third talk in the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026. \nTitle of the Talk: From Paddy Fields to Proscenium to Public Space: Exploring Pedagogy as a Tool of Specific Art Engagement \nSpeaker: Professor Sanchayan Ghosh\, Educator & Artist\nDate & Time: Friday\, 23rd October\, 2026\, at 1:30 PM\nVenue: Visual Arts Studio (near sports block) \n\nAbstract:\nPublic Art has evolved from its colonial inheritance of monuments to process based individual and collective engagements with specific sites. Site-specific art today is a form of direct engagement with different forms of institutions\, configuring multiple layers of ownership and power. In the process of creating a site-specific form\, Sanchayan Ghosh enables pedagogical frameworks of learning as essential tools to shape a critical public sphere. Site-specific engagements also emerge trans-disciplinary forms of practice where collaborations and collective transformations produce relational dialogues between the auteur and the viewer. In this presentation Sanchayan Ghosh will share his experiences with various kinds of social and institutional spaces in the creation of site-specific art. \nAbout the Speaker:\nSanchayan Ghosh is an artist whose practice centers on process-based\, site-specific work and post-performance collaborative art. Inspired early on by community ritual events in Santiniketan and his workshops with Third Theatre exponent Badal Sarkar\, he sees making and sharing as one integrated process. He engages diverse communities through workshops that become interactive\, participatory art activities\, shared in both private and public spaces. These lead to interdisciplinary\, multi-layered installations and performances that are both pedagogic and performative. Through this work\, Ghosh continues to explore the space between institution and pedagogy\, and the interface of institutional and public situations. \n  \nWe look forward to having you with us for the talk.  \nWarm regards\, \nVisual Arts Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/from-paddy-fields-to-proscenium-to-public-space-exploring-pedagogy-as-a-tool-of-specific-art-engage/
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SUMMARY:Study Abroad Student Experience Series by Siddhant Malik
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/study-abroad-student-experience-series-by-siddhant-malik/
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SUMMARY:SOA Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Barren Hills: Post-Agrarian Dilemmas in the Indian Himalayas \n\nIn this talk\, I consider what happens\, ecologically and politically\, when farmers stop farming. To do so\, I tell the story of Kalimpong\, a district in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal. British colonial administrators established Kalimpong as a small-farming enclave\, and as a deliberate outside to the tea plantations that dominated the region. For more than a century\, Nepali\, Lepcha\, and Bhutia people worked as tenant farmers\, creating a patchwork of smallholdings. Since the 1990s\, however\, shifts in food markets have combined with environmental degradation to make farming in Kalimpong increasingly difficult. Despite this\, most Nepali\, Bhutia\, and Lepcha residents have not abandoned their land. Following their struggles to forge a post-agrarian existence\, the talk explores the changing relationships between rural ecology and rural identity in contemporary India. \n  \nSarah Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Her scholarship is primarily focused on the past and present of plantation-based production in India\, and she is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair Trade Tea Plantations in India (2014) and Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (2020)\, both published by University of California Press as well as the co-editor (with Alex Blanchette) of How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet (SAR Press\, 2019).
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/soa-colloquium/
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