Partition, colonial power and the voices of 16th-century women
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra and Anindya Raychaudhuri talk to Rana Mitter about using objects and archives to create new images of the past.
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri talk to Rana Mitter about using objects and archives to create new images of the past, from Guyana to India and Pakistan to women in C16th France.
Suzannah Lipscomb's book The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc uses the evidence of 1,200 cases brought before the consistories – or moral courts – of the Huguenot church of Languedoc between 1561 and 1615 to summon up the lives of ordinary women.
Hew Locke Here's The Thing - the most comprehensive show of his art in the UK runs at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham from March 8th to 2nd June 2019 and then tours to Kansas City and Maine.
Aanchal Malhotra is the author of Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory
Anindya Raychaudhuri teaches at the University of St Andrews and is a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ/AHRC New Generation Thinker. He has published Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔmaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora. You can hear his Essay on Partitioned Memories for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 here https://bbc.in/2SJjLew
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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Podcast: Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Artist Hew Locke & historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri
Partitioned Memories
Anindya Raychaudhuri considers people's memories of India and Pakistan in 1947.
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- Thu 14 Mar 2019 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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