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SUMMARY:Entangled Objects\, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in La
 hore and Chandigarh  - Aparna Kumar (UCL)
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DESCRIPTION:This presentation presents a new history of the Lahore Museum 
 in Pakistan\, an institution whose collections of art and archaeological w
 ere dramatically divided between India and Pakistan in response to the par
 tition of 1947. This history upholds the material archive\, as an essentia
 l vantage point from which to understand the partition’s empirical\, epi
 stemological\, and emotional ramifications for art and society in South As
 ia. It traces the division and dispersion of the Lahore Museum’s collect
 ions in the twentieth century\, against the broader turmoil of the period\
 , to expound the crisis of dispossession that art and museums in South Asi
 a faced in response to this unprecedented process of social\, political\, 
 economic\, and cultural fragmentation. My analysis will engage the Lahore 
 collections\, and objects of art more broadly\, as fragments of a violent 
 division of place\, identity\, and humanity\, and as “fragmentary points
  of view” whose mobilities across borders and temporalities demand and m
 ake possible richer definitions of nation\, citizenship\, partition\, and 
 postcolonialism. \n \nAparna Kumar is a Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture
 s of the Global South. She received her Ph.D. in Art History at the Univer
 sity of California\, Los Angeles in 2018. Her research and teaching focus 
 on modern and contemporary South Asian art\, twentieth-century partition h
 istory\, museum studies\, and postcolonial theory. Kumar’s research has 
 been supported by fellowships and grants from the Fulbright-Nehru Research
  Program\, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)\, the American 
 Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)\, the Critical Language Scholarship P
 rogram\, and the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her dissertation 
 project\, Partition and the Historiography of Art in South Asia\, was awar
 ded the inaugural UC Berkeley South Asia Art and Architecture Dissertation
  Prize in 2021. \n\nSpeakers:\nAparna Kumar (UCL)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Syndicate Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8e517deb-63db-4c7d-b4cf-35d4bfdba937/
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