The Institute for South Asia Studies is organizing a roundtable with Pushpamala N., a renowned Bangalore-based contemporary artist. Pushpamala’s photo-performances and videos invoke a wide range of subjects from colonial photography, popular prints, premodern manuscript painting, and cinema to explore questions of gender, identity, and history through masquerade. The roundtable is a collateral event in conjunction with Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India, an exhibition on contemporary Indian photography at the San Jose Museum of Art (February–August, 2015), the catalog for which has been published by the University of California Press.

 Join Pushpamala N. in conversation with Assistant Professor of South Asian Art Sugata Ray; Associate Professor in the Department of Art Practice Allan deSouza; Assistant Professor of English Poulomi Saha; and Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature Harsha Ram on the aesthetics of the body.