SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

DAY 1: August 22, 2025

11:00 – 6:00 PM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

11.00 – 12.00 PM

Greeting and solidarity ceremony conceived jointly by: 

Biung Ismahasan, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Srinavas Gamango, Rajesh Vangad

Welcome: Bhavna Kakar

 

Introduction

Katya García-Antón

 

SESSION 1

COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES OF EPISTEMOLOGICAL EQUITY

12.00 – 1.00 PM

 

Rajesh Vangad, Gauri Gill and Puja Vaish

Q & A moderated by Puja Vaish

 

SESSION 2

CENTERING KINSHIPS: POETIC AND EMBODIED KNOWLEDGES IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE

2 – 3.00 PM

 

Srinivas Gamango and Deeptimayee Patro (with introductory comments online by Brian Martin) 

Udayan Vajpeyi 

Q & A moderated by Chaitanya Sambrani

SESSION 3

THE POWER OF INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITANISM, POLYPHONIC ENCOUNTERS AND SOLIDARITIES

3.15 – 4.45 PM

Chaitanya Sambrani 

Kamayani Sharma 

Venkat Raman Singh Shyam

Santosh K Das and Khushboo Jain

Respondent Lina Vincent, followed by a Q & A 

 

SESSION 4

TIME AND SPACE IN THE EPISTEMIC RESISTANCE OF INDIGENOUS WORLD-VIEWS

4.50 – 5.50 PM

G.N. Devy

Q & A moderated by Katya García-Antón

 

DAY 2: August 23, 2025

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

 

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS 

10 – 10.15 AM

 

SESSION 5

STRUCTURAL AND CONCEPTUAL INDIGENISATION WITHIN AND BEYOND THE MUSEUM

10.15 AM – 12.00 PM

 

Candice Hopkins 

Akhilesh Akhil and Chaitanya Sambrani 

Madan Meena

Kabita Chakma 

Q & A moderated by Katya García-Antón

 

SESSION 6

THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MUSEUMS

12.15 – 13.15 PM

 

Amareswar Galla and Sushree Sangita Mohanty

Q & A moderated by Katya García-Antón

 

SESSION 7

THE ROLE OF COLLECTORS AND ART FAIRS IN MOBILISING GLOBAL INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEWS

2 – 3.00 PM

 

Lekha Poddar, Vivek Sehgal, and Alexie Glass-Kantor

Q & A moderated by Alexie Glass-Kantor

 

SESSION 8

EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONFRONTATIONS WITHIN THE INSTITUTIONALISING FRAME OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD

3.00 – 4.20 PM

 

Biung Ismahasan

Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung

Q & A moderated by Lina Vincent

 

SESSION 9

4.20 – 5.10 PM

Closing Performance and Talk

Tushar & Mayur Vayeda