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Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World Seminar: Meta Colour in South Asia
29 November 2017, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
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Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World
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Institute of Advanced StudiesGower StreetLONDONWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
The Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World is pleased to welcome Dr Natasha Eaton from UCL's History of Art Department, who will be giving the first of its lunchtime seminars of the year, 'Meta Colour in South Asia'.
Can the world be thought of in terms of sepia and light? This talk will explore the relationship between archaic labour and photography in colonial Ceylon with an emphasis on pearlescence and how this might contribute to phenomenologies of light. The economies of pearls and their relationship with visual representation perhaps can act as an allegory of colonialism pushed to the threshold of governmentality.