Organizer: Padma Kaimal, Colgate University, USA Discussants: Catherine Becker, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA; Michael W. Meister, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Natasha Reichle, Asian Art Museum, USA; Catherine Becker, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA; Padma Kaimal, Colgate University, USA Proposed: A roundtable to reflect on the launching of the work “’To My Mind’: Studies in South Asian Art History in Honor of Joanna Gottfried Williams,” which is forthcoming this August as two guest-edited volumes of the journal Artibus Asiae (LXIX.2 and LXX.1). The thirteen essays in these volumes are already organized into two themes: links between contemporary art practice and older objects; and the insights and contradictions that sculptures and inscriptions can bring to each other. The essays also engage in a series of cross-cutting conversations that highlight some of the most innovative directions scholarship in the field has taken.
A roundtable would provide an opportunity for the thirteen authors who contributed to the volumes, for Joanna herself, and for anyone else who has read them to convert the virtual conversation the published work begins into a lived, face-to-face, and open-ended debate. Where do these conversations lead beyond the publication? What do they indicate about the state of South Asian Art History? What do they reveal about Joanna’s impact upon individual scholars and upon the field at large? The thirteen voices raised in these discussion would include junior as well as senior scholars. They are: Catherine B. Asher, Frederick Asher, Catherine Becker, Devangana Desai, Padma Kaimal, Jinah Kim, Janice Leoshko, Tryna Lyons, Sujatha Arundathi Meegama, Michael W. Meister, Kavita Singh, Natasha Reichle, and Juhyung Rhi.
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