Apr 23, 2021
This week's episode invites you to look back to the 19th century with four Persian travelers making their way through a modernized Europe. In their travel diaries, we see Europe from an Occidentalist gaze, which charges these Western spaces with eroticism, magic, and wonder. What can we learn about Persian utopia from...
Apr 8, 2021
How do moods and cultural objects work in the construction
of history, politics, place? In this episode, Dipti Khera joins us
to discuss her newly published book The Place of Many
Moods:
Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century,
which deconstructs the affects of the painted letters
traditions...