Topics in Material Culture: Time and Materiality in South and Southeast Asia

Catalog description

This is a topics course. Course content varies. Open to graduate students, AB/MA candidates, or by permission of the instructor. This course was formerly numbered HART B646. Current topic description: This graduate seminar examines histories and theories of ornament from a wide range of disciplinary, temporal, and geographic perspectives. The course will engage with intermedial and intercultural transfers of ornament, while also interrogating conceptions of ornament as a universal language, and will seek to locate ornament in its material, geographic, and historical contexts. As a class, we will also explore the hands-on processes of pattern-making and ornamentation through fieldtrips, workshops and visits to Bryn Mawr Special Collections.