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Shreya Gupta

@shreyagupta.bsky.social

AHRC CDP PhD student at Exeter and Ashmolean Museum researching the history of collecting coins in colonial India https://linktr.ee/Shreya.gupta11

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Shreya Gupta@shreyagupta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking forward to talking about my research at the Society of Antiquaries in Edinburgh this April! Booking info below👇🏽

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland@socantscot.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is the legacy of colonialism in museum collections? Join us in Edinburgh or online on 24 April for a free double lecture to explore the story of South Asian coins in UK museums and the proactive repatriation of ancestral (human) remains: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia...

Gold coin: Gold ‘Zodiacal’ Mohur of Jahangir (r.1605-1627), Sagittarius or the 9th month of the Persian Solar Calendar, struck at Agra in Islamic year AH1029 and regnal year 14.
Shreya Gupta@shreyagupta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Visited the Jameel Prize exhibition at the V&A and loved all the displays but as someone researching museums history and thinking of what an alternative museum could look like, Khandakar Ohida’s uncle’s conception of dreaming his own museum was so evocative.

Description of Dream Your Museum, winner, by Khandakar OhidaBild
Exeter South Asia Centre, University of Exeter@exetersouthasia.bsky.social · 2y ago

One of India’s preeminent feminist writers and political thinkers has been invited to the University of Exeter to provide a series of talks and engagement sessions this month. news.exeter.ac.uk/societies-an...

Societies and Cultures Institute welcomes acclaimed Visiting Researcher

One of India’s preeminent feminist writers and political thinkers has been invited to the University of Exeter to provide a series of talks and engagement sessions this month. Professor Nivedita Menon...

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Shreya Gupta@shreyagupta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking forward to this exciting series of talks with Nivedita Menon at @exetersouthasia.bsky.social

Exeter South Asia Centre, University of Exeter (@exetersouthasia.bsky.social)

Updates from @exeter.ac.uk's South Asia Centre. Focusing on the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.

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Exeter South Asia Centre, University of Exeter@exetersouthasia.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are very excited to share that Prof Nivedita Menon, a leading public intellectual & feminist thinker, will be visiting us at @exeter.ac.uk! Join us for a series of events discussing her latest book, India, global feminism, and South Asian studies.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 2y ago

Koloman Moser (1868–1918) was one of the leading artists of the Vienna Secession movement, alongside Josef Hoffman, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. In 1901, the artist was approached by the Austro-Hungarian Bank to design new banknotes. This painting marks the beginning of Moser’s creative journey.

A draft painting for a banknote featuring the head of a woman.
Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

This excellent article by @suryabowyer.com, Shreya Gupta, @libertypaterson.bsky.social , and Niti Acharya includes a generous reflection on AHRC funded work in collections, and a challenge for the future @hisjournalha.bsky.social

As we have seen, the fields of the history of collecting and the history of institutions are diverse yet often entwined. By analysing the work of a new generation of scholars – under the auspices of the CDP scheme – this article has charted recent research trends and looked forward to future directions in these fields. That future is a thrilling one. Collecting institutions are increasingly motivated to examine their colonial histories and the provenance of their objects. This provides research opportunities across academia and the museum sector. Digital tools increasingly aid this work. Recent developments in network mapping have been particularly fruitful, and we are seeing an increasing use of quantitative methods when investigating collections and their histories. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already used by the commercial sector and by a handful of larger public institutions such as the Wellcome, though it is usually deployed in very limited contexts. As research continues and AI becomes integrated into more areas of everyday life, we shall see an increasing number of institutions deploying AI to help analyse and make sense of collections data at a scale that was not previously viable. The ‘raw materials’ of history – to return to Burgess's metaphor – are becoming better understood as well as more readily accessible. The future of looking back at the past is bright.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association@hisjournalha.bsky.social · 2y ago

#skystorians New article drop! A 'State of the Field' reflection on The History of Collections and Institutions by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, and Niti Acharya. OA doi.org/10.1111/1468...

surya bowyer@suryabowyer.com · 2y ago

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions

This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Shreya Gupta@shreyagupta.bsky.social · 2y ago

What better way to do my 1st post than announcing this (hot off the press) publication on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting with partners in crime @suryabowyer.com @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya. It’s also open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions

This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com