This panel discussion will launch Alice Tilche's book Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age (U of Washington Press, 2022)

ABOUT THIS EVENT
The Critical South Asia Group (CSAG) and the Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development (WICID), along with the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) invite you to a book launch and panel discussion on Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
a book by Alice Tilche
on Thursday, 19 May 2022
2 pm - 3:30 pm UK time
on ZOOM

Panelists:
Dakxin Chhara (film-maker, playwright and activist; Artistic Director, Budhan Theatre)
Ganesh Devy (literary critic, cultural activist and formerly Department of English at M.S. University, Baroda)
Dan Rycroft (Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia)
Alpa Shah (Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics)
Rashmi Varma (Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

Respondent:
Alice Tilche (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester)

Adivasi Art and Activism examines the making of adivasi (indigenous) art in India in relation to the homogenizing forces of Hinduization, development, and globalization. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in rural western India, the book documents curatorial projects in and beyond the confines of museums and art institutions, in the realms of the home, the body, and the landscape. Adivasi Art and Activism raises vital questions about preservation and curation of indigenous material and provides a critique of the aesthetics and politics of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India.