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DESCRIPTION:Openings On Friday November 10 at 7 pm\, join artist Shahzia Si
 kander in conversation with Sadia Abbas moderated by Richard Davis as the 
 opening event of Lahore on my Mind\, a public festival that moves between 
 the past and the present to explore the early modern\, colonial\, and cont
 emporary cultural worlds of South Asia. Featuring artist interventions and
  discussions with thinkers\, curators\, and artists from the United States
 \, Europe\, and South Asia. Curated by historian Sugata Ray\, Lahore on my
  Mind takes John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London 
 as a starting point to reflect on the role of visual arts\, performative p
 ractices\, and literary cultures in shaping South Asia’s aesthetics\, arts
 \, and cultural politics in a globalized world. We are pleased to extend c
 omplimentary need-based community tickets by request to all ticketed event
 s. To learn more\, please email public.programs@bgc.bard.edu. Leading supp
 ort for Public Programs at Bard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros a
 nd other generous donors. Sadia Abbas is associate professor in English de
 partment at Rutgers-Newark. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University. 
 She specializes in postcolonial literature and theory\, the culture and po
 litics of Islam in modernity\, early modern English literature\, especiall
 y the literature of religious strife\, and the history of twentieth-centur
 y criticism. She is the author of at At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Pos
 tcolonial Predicament (co-winner of the MLA first book prize) and numerous
  essays on subjects ranging from Renaissance poetics to the Greek crisis t
 o contemporary theorizations of Muslim female agency. She is currently wor
 king on a book on Greece and the idea of Europe. Her first novel\, The Emp
 ty Room\, will be published by Urvashi Butalia's Zubaan Press early next y
 ear. She is co-producing a book on Shahzia Sikander's work with Jan Howard
  for the RISD museum.  Richard Davis is Associate professor of religion at
  Bard College. He teaches Hinduism\, comparative religion and south Asian 
 studies. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Chicago\, M.A. Univer
 sity of Toronto\, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has tau
 ght at Yale University\, University of Chicago\, and the School of the Art
  Institute of Chicago. Research associate\, Yale Center for International 
 and Area Studies. Publications: Lives of Indian Images (Princeton Universi
 ty Press\, 1997)\; Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in M
 edieval India (Princeton University Press\, 1991)\; 'The Incomography of R
 am’s Chariot' in Contesting the Nation: Religion\, Community and the Polit
 ics of Democracy in India\, ed. David Ludden (University of Pennsylvania P
 ress\, 1996)\; articles in History and Anthropology\, Journal of Asian Stu
 dies\, Journal of Ritual Studies\, Journal of Oriental Research\, and Hist
 ory of Religions. He was Editor of Images\, Miracles\, and Authority in As
 ian Religious Traditions (Westview Press\, 1998.) Bard College (1997—.)Sha
 hzia Sikander received her BFA in 1991 from the National College of Arts\,
  Lahore\, Pakistan and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1
 995. Pakistani-born and internationally recognized\, Sikander's pioneering
  practice takes Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of departure. S
 he challenges the strict formal tropes of miniature painting as well as it
 s medium-based restrictions by experimenting with scale and media. Such me
 dia include animation\, video\, mural\, and collaboration with other artis
 ts. Her process-based work is concerned with examining the forces at stake
  in contested cultural and political histories. Her work helped launch a m
 ajor resurgence in the Miniature Painting department in the Nineties at th
 e National College of Arts in Lahore\, inspiring many others to examine th
 e miniature tradition.Thursday\, November 918 West 86th Street7 pm: Meena 
 Alexander Poetry ReadingMeena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed po
 et who was born in Allahabad\, India and lives and works in New York City.
 Friday\, November 1038 West 86th Street 7 pm: OpeningsRichard Davis\, Asso
 ciate Professor of Religion\, Bard CollegeShahzia Sikander\, visual artist
 Sadia Abbas\, Associate Professor\, Department of English\, Rutgers-Newark
 Saturday\, November 1118 West 86th Street12 pm: Empire\, Post-Empire\, Neo
 -EmpireRisha Lee\, Independent Curator and ScholarGyan Prakash\, Professor
  of History\, Princeton UniversityMeena Alexander\, poet\, scholar\, and w
 riterSabrina Dhawan\, screenwriter and producer2 pm: Outside Kipling’s Won
 der HouseTasneem Zakaria Mehta\, Honorary Director\, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Muse
 um\, Mumbai\, IndiaNadeem Omar Tarar\, Director\, National College of Arts
 \, Lahore\, PakistanNavina Najat Haidar\, Curator of Islamic Art\, The Met
 ropolitan Museum of ArtFREE with an RSVP18 West 86th Street4 pm: Intervent
 ions in the Gallery: Alok Vaid-MenonAlok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-confor
 ming performance artist\, writer\, educator\, and entertainer.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Lahore on My Mind
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