Dr. Neelima Jeychandran and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on the circulation of objects in the Indian Ocean

Abstract

Abstract: Neelima Jeychandran is an Assistant Professor of African Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar. In this episode, she talks with her host Clarissa Vierke (Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the ⁠University of Bayreuth⁠) about Jeychandran's work on oceanic crossovers and material histories of West and East Africa and western India. She is an ethnographer, editor, scholar, and was a fellow at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence from May until July 2024.

People & roles

Guest(s): Jeychandran, Neelima; Vierke, Clarissa

Origins & context

Title: Dr. Neelima Jeychandran and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on the circulation of objects in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: September 26, 2024

Rights & access

Extent: 29 minutes, 55 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-27/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 27

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. [sound effect] Speaker 1: Welcome to a new episode of Cluster Conversation. My name is Clarissa Vierke. I am professor of African Language Literatures at the University of Bayreuth and PI of the cluster Africa Multiple. And it's my absolute pleasure to be together with Nelima Jayachandran today, who is at the moment a fellow at the cluster and in our research section Arts and Aesthetics. Welcome, Nelima. Speaker 2: Thank you, Clarissa. And I'm happy to be part of this Cluster Conversation. I think it is a great platform to kind of jam our own intellectual ideas and projects. And I'm happy to chime into the conversation for people here in Bayreuth and also those who are tuning in from all parts of the world. So thank you for the brief introduction. My name is Nelima Jayachandran and I am an assistant professor of African arts at the University of Virginia Commonwealth in Qatar. And I'm someone who looks at Africana visual cultures. I work in the Indian Ocean and I also work in West Africa. So I kind of look at a broad swath of geography, particularly interested in the circulation of objects, but also how these objects tell us more about the circulation of people and other formats of migration. So that is what I am particularly interested in studying. And I'm here because I know that you are also someone who works in the Indian Ocean and have similar inquiries. And that is one particular interest of mine that aligns with the interest of the cluster, but also some of your works. Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. I find your work extremely impressive because you manage to combine so many different places, so many different, I think I should say visual and material culture and also even taking historical perspective and anthropological perspective. You're an art historian, you're a curator. So you have all my admiration because I always feel I'm already, I will never be able to kind of… Read the full text about 3,915 words