Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India
Saturday, November 5, 2022
6–7:30 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Learn about the erasure of Islamic monuments and history in contemporary India at this roundtable copresented by Guernica magazine. Writer Madhuri Sastry moderates a discussion about politics, art, and cultural memory among historian Manan Ahmed, author and photographer Suchitra Vijayan, artist Jaishri Abichandani, and civil rights attorney and founding editor of Pyaar to the People Fazeela Siddiqui. Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, introduces the conversation with an overview of our newly reopened Arts of South Asia gallery. Also catch a special screening of the video poem “Place of Birth” by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem.