Intangible Histories

Departments of Archaeology and Drama, University of Exeter National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (a UKIERI funded partnership)

Presentations by faculty of both Exeter and NIAS will include:

• Exiling heroes and burning demons: two productions of the Ramayana in Britain
• Singing the smelt – work songs of the last iron smelters of Sri Lanka: accessing the past through traditional practitioner dialogues
• Death of a dramatist: contesting imperceptible spaces in Indian cities
• Can the sangam literature help understand the iron age-early historic burials of Tamilnadu
• Where to build the walls that protect us
• Touching the past: enabling more multisensory museum experiences
• Dis-eased: performing the politics and power of dirty and dying bodies
• Valuing real estate: speculation in land and urban transitions in South India
• From princely to divine: archaeometric insights on iconographic shifts in Ramayana bronzes from southern India
• Drama in real life! intentionality and tactical deception in wild bonnet macaques