BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f45d228d76feffe30d93c941d371ace9 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121114 SUMMARY:“The Threads That Bind: French India and the 18th Century Global Trade in South Asian Textiles” - A Talk by Dr. Liza Oliver (Wellesley College, USA) DESCRIPTION:Liza Oliver is Assistant Professor of Art History and South Asia Studies at Wellesley College, USA.  She researches and publishes on visual cultures o f trade and colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with the poli tics of cultural heritage. Her book, Forging French India: Art, Diplomacy a nd Imperialism in the Early Modern Era, is forthcoming in 2018 with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. \n\nThis lecture will explore visu al cultures that developed from the French East India Company's involvement with Coromandel textile industries in the 18th century. It will overview t he role of Coromandel textiles in such far reaching enterprises as European botanical study, French luxury markets, and the Atlantic slave trade. It w ill also detail the life of the French Company's chief Tamil agent and brok er, whose visual and textual archive reveals the intermediary space comprad ors such as him occupied in European enclaves of 18th-century South India.\ n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Liza Oliver is Assistant Professor of Art History and South Asia Studies at Wellesley College, USA.  She researches and publishes on visual culture s of trade and colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with the p olitics of cultural heritage. Her book, Forging French India: Art, Diplomac y and Imperialism in the Early Modern Era, is forthcoming in 2018 with Oxfo rd University Studies in the Enlightenment.

This lecture will e xplore visual cultures that developed from the French East India Company's involvement with Coromandel textile industries in the 18th century. It will overview the role of Coromandel textiles in such far reaching enterprises as European botanical study, French luxury markets, and the Atlantic slave trade. It will also detail the life of the French Company's chief Tamil age nt and broker, whose visual and textual archive reveals the intermediary sp ace compradors such as him occupied in European enclaves of 18th-century So uth India.

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