Dr Richard Williams teaches at the Rajasthani Bhasha Academy in Udaipur, India Dr Williams explored archives relating to music history in Rajasthan.
Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra Southeast and South Asian visual culture and identity, with focus on photography; cultural policy and governance in ASEAN contexts; sustainable infrastructure for creative economies; legal perspectives on cultural production; postcolonial cultural diplomacy and soft power
One more time: Anthropology, cinema, futures The project regards anthropology and cinema as distinct yet related forms of culture critique; by revisiting the films of Théo Angelopoulos, it poses the question of how the real is fashioned in such films, charting the effects its cinematic reconstruction has been having on audiences.
New book on India’s regional politics shortlisted for major accolade ‘India’s Near East: A New History’ by Dr Avinash Paliwal has been shortlisted in the prestigious 2025 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Awards.