Speaker: Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Moderator: Sugata Ray, Associate Professor of History of Art and of South & Southeast Asian Studies

The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites you to a talk by Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles on February 21, 2023 from 5-6:30 p.m.

For more details about this event see the event listing <https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=147577&date=2023-02-21&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel=>

Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, South Asia Art Initiative, Department of Art Practice, Department of History of Art

SPEAKER BIO Dr. Nancy Um is an art historian of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Arabian Peninsula, with a focus on trade and cross-cultural exchange in the early modern era. She is the Associate Director of Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. Previously she was professor of art history and associate dean for faculty development and inclusion at Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University.

In her research, Dr. Um explores the history of art, architecture, and material culture in the Islamic world, with a focus on the merchant communities of the Arabian Peninsula and the salient ties that they sustained across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, along maritime routes that stretched to east Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and the coasts of China and Japan.

She is the author of two books, The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (University of Washington Press, 2009) and Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), in addition to articles that have appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, African Arts, Northeast African Studies, Journal of Early Modern History, Genre, Art History, Getty Research Journal, West 86th, Manuscript Studies, and caa.reviews.