Connecting Threads: New Investigations into Madras Handkerchief Exchanges between South India and the Caribbean

In this talk, Diana Felix Da Costa asks what this shifting iconography reveals in relation to the militarisation and fragmentation of the very important social institution of the age-sets, but also what it represents for individual and collective youth identities and sub-identities.

A lecture by Eddie Chambers, Holder of the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin

The al-Jazzar Library was founded by the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804). While al-Jazzar is famous for his defeat of the Napoleonic troops and his massive building projects to change the urban topography of Acre, his library has so far remained on the margins of scholarly interest.