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Apr 6, 2020 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
I'm 'thrilled' that some of my colleagues have successfully revamped their pedagogies for remote teaching and are showing off all their latest teaching tricks, but bear in mind that some of us are barely holding it together. This has been a #subtweet.
Consider this a shout-out to all of you consumed with worry over dying/sick loved ones and who are otherwise scrambling to barely manage life during a global pandemic. You're not alone.
Extra shout-out to all the parents of young children, those of you quarantining alone, those of you who are on the job market and otherwise precariously employed, and those of you separated from family. I see you.

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Nov 10, 2020
One of the first things I did when I arrived at Amherst College was to ask the staff @meadartmuseum to see everything in the collection from South Asia. They kindly obliged & showed me lots of cool stuff, but one thing in particular made my jaw drop. A short thread...
Here it is--AC 1963.4--a painting on paper measuring around 42.5 x 31.7 cm. Looks like just a bunch of guys standing around a white building. BUT, the Persian inscription above IDs the scene as the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb visiting the shrine of Mu'in al-Din Chishti in Ajmer!
What's so interesting about this? Firstly, we have no other depictions of Aurangzeb visiting a Sufi shrine. And secondly, Aurangzeb is said to have ceased patronizing painting, effectively dismantling the royal workshop by the late 1660s.
Read 22 tweets
Oct 1, 2020
Today the students in my Indian art/arch course and I will be eating pongal and chutney together (remotely) as we learn about the Brihadesvara Temple in Thanjavur. I've never incorporated recipes/food into art history courses before, a habit I'm now rethinking.
Mine turned out "OK." Can't compete with the pongal served at Surguru in Pondicherry (my pic from years ago below) or really most pongals, but it does the job! Image
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Sep 26, 2020
As this brilliant thread makes clear, that evopsych paper tracks "trustworthiness displays" in a database of portraits of WHITE Euro elites, using an algorithm engineered to detect _contemporary bias_ in the perception of character of WHITE people...
In other words, the study is not only projecting presentist bias towards WHITE displays of "trustworthiness" (wtf that means) onto the past, it's doing so under the cover that these biases are natural & universal, a conclusion that studies the paper cites don't even support...
Thus, one might conclude from the study & graphs like this that greater GDP leads to more trustworthiness displays, but what we're really seeing is correlation btwn rise of colonizing states' GDP & presentist bias towards the appearance of white-coded trustworthiness/dominance... Image
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Sep 24, 2020
* stares in art historian * nature.com/articles/s4146… Image
It hadn't dawned on me till now that I work on cognitive fossils with low computed trustworthiness ImageImage
Also the Eurocentrism and whiteness of the whole study! Colleagues, take heed (from Johanna Drucker, "Is there a Digital Art History," 12: Image
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Jun 29, 2020
Christie's recent sale of a 15th-c. Qur'an ms. lacking transparent info. about its provenance has generated much debate about the legal/ethical dimensions of the sale & trafficking of mss. This is a *thread* about why the preservation of manuscripts & books even matters. 1/n
Firstly, on the legal/ethical issues re the sale/export/import of mss., int'l agreements and nat'l laws re protection of mss., & why transparency re the provenance of mss. matters as much as that of excavated materials see the brilliant @stephenniem here:
As @stephenniem explains, many view mss. (and books more broadly) as somehow excluded from international conventions & domestic laws about the sale/export/import of cultural property. The reasons for this are dubious, however.
Read 31 tweets
May 6, 2020
I've decided to revamp my course offerings for fall to teach an entirely new course on digital methods for art history. I've been wanting to do this for a while, and the need for such a course seems all the more pressing now. Three of four of our thesis writers this year...
...drew upon DH methods. Students are clearly eager to employ these approaches! I've benefited from convos with colleagues who have taught / plan to teach DAH courses, esp. Sarah Laursen, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, @alexbrey, @marselykehoe, & will be seeking advice from others.
I welcome any tips, resources, suggestions, and cautionary tales from those who have already ventured into this fairly new territory.
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